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Enzo Maresca is free to sign for any club this summer after resigning from Chelsea, talkSPORT understands.
With a growing expectation Pep Guardiola leaves Manchester City, Maresca is the clear front-runner to replace him and several well-placed sources have indicated high-level talks between the Italian and City have already taken place.
talkSPORT can reveal the terms of Maresca’s exit package from Stamford Bridge are complicated, yet Chelsea cannot delay or block the 46-year-old starting a new role having accepted his resignation.
Maresca is understood to still have exit terms still in place with Chelsea and so the parties would need to come to an agreement via talks, or if required mediation. However, that process, should it need to drag on, would not stop Maresca beginning a new job while concurrently tying up loose ends with Chelsea.
Any potential compensation to Chelsea, should it be necessary, will be finalised between the Blues and Maresca, not paid by City or any other club. This means Maresca is free to take a new job, even if he fails to resolve a parting settlement with Chelsea before signing.
Chelsea believe they are entitled to a payment from Maresca when he gets a new job, but the specifics, including even if an amount is in fact owed, are up for legal interpretation from both parties.
Maresca’s Chelsea exit
Maresca left Chelsea on New Year’s Day in a parting of ways officially billed as by ‘mutual consent’, but it was the Italian who decided to exit mid-season.
“The change wasn’t the club’s decision for reasons I can’t speak about legally,” confirmed Chelsea majority owner Behdad Eghbali at the CAA World Congress of Sports conference last week.
“I think the reasons will become kind of clear in due course. But no, it’s not a change we wanted to make.
“It’s a change that’s had a bit of a negative impact on the season, when you’re changing systems and personnel. And it’s one we’ve got to fight out our way out of.”
Maresca is now understood to be optimistic on finding work this summer with a return to City likely if Guardiola decides to call time on his trophy-laden tenure.
Guardiola is known for making relatively late decisions, and although City will allow him to decide his future on his own terms, a succession plan is already in place, led by sporting director Hugo Viana.
Guardiola will leave either this summer or a year later when his contract expires.
Chelsea sources say City made multiple approaches when Maresca was still at Chelsea, which is perhaps what Eghbali was alluding to in his comments, and there was a contractual obligation to declare this at the time.
Maresca also informed Chelsea when Juventus made a similar enquiry.
He also raised the prospect of extending his contract at Stamford Bridge during the same discussions but it is not thought a potential renewal ever advanced.
Maresca’s perspective is that he did not resign from Chelsea with any job, including Manchester City, in mind.
He quit because of frustrations with the project with the final straw being when Chelsea’s director of performance Bryce Cavanagh was put on the bench to enforce medical-led decisions on player workload.
Chelsea’s insiders maintain this was a normal move with the club keen to listen to medical experts and protect their squad, especially players recently back from injury, but it was viewed by Maresca as interference that crossed a line.
City’s official position is simply Guardiola is contracted until 2027.
Yet Maresca is now watching the run in to the end of the Premier League season closely and if Guardiola does depart this summer, with several industry insiders believing that’s the direction of travel, Maresca appears well-positioned to return to the Etihad Stadium to replace his mentor.
Enzo Maresca is free to sign for any club this summer after resigning from Chelsea, talkSPORT understands.
With a growing expectation Pep Guardiola leaves Manchester City, Maresca is the clear front-runner to replace him and several well-placed sources have indicated high-level talks between the Italian and City have already taken place.
talkSPORT can reveal the terms of Maresca’s exit package from Stamford Bridge are complicated, yet Chelsea cannot delay or block the 46-year-old starting a new role having accepted his resignation.
Maresca is understood to still have exit terms still in place with Chelsea and so the parties would need to come to an agreement via talks, or if required mediation. However, that process, should it need to drag on, would not stop Maresca beginning a new job while concurrently tying up loose ends with Chelsea.
Any potential compensation to Chelsea, should it be necessary, will be finalised between the Blues and Maresca, not paid by City or any other club. This means Maresca is free to take a new job, even if he fails to resolve a parting settlement with Chelsea before signing.
Chelsea believe they are entitled to a payment from Maresca when he gets a new job, but the specifics, including even if an amount is in fact owed, are up for legal interpretation from both parties.
Maresca’s Chelsea exit
Maresca left Chelsea on New Year’s Day in a parting of ways officially billed as by ‘mutual consent’, but it was the Italian who decided to exit mid-season.
“The change wasn’t the club’s decision for reasons I can’t speak about legally,” confirmed Chelsea majority owner Behdad Eghbali at the CAA World Congress of Sports conference last week.
“I think the reasons will become kind of clear in due course. But no, it’s not a change we wanted to make.
“It’s a change that’s had a bit of a negative impact on the season, when you’re changing systems and personnel. And it’s one we’ve got to fight out our way out of.”
Maresca is now understood to be optimistic on finding work this summer with a return to City likely if Guardiola decides to call time on his trophy-laden tenure.
Guardiola is known for making relatively late decisions, and although City will allow him to decide his future on his own terms, a succession plan is already in place, led by sporting director Hugo Viana.
Guardiola will leave either this summer or a year later when his contract expires.
Chelsea sources say City made multiple approaches when Maresca was still at Chelsea, which is perhaps what Eghbali was alluding to in his comments, and there was a contractual obligation to declare this at the time.
Maresca also informed Chelsea when Juventus made a similar enquiry.
He also raised the prospect of extending his contract at Stamford Bridge during the same discussions but it is not thought a potential renewal ever advanced.
Maresca’s perspective is that he did not resign from Chelsea with any job, including Manchester City, in mind.
He quit because of frustrations with the project with the final straw being when Chelsea’s director of performance Bryce Cavanagh was put on the bench to enforce medical-led decisions on player workload.
Chelsea’s insiders maintain this was a normal move with the club keen to listen to medical experts and protect their squad, especially players recently back from injury, but it was viewed by Maresca as interference that crossed a line.
City’s official position is simply Guardiola is contracted until 2027.
Yet Maresca is now watching the run in to the end of the Premier League season closely and if Guardiola does depart this summer, with several industry insiders believing that’s the direction of travel, Maresca appears well-positioned to return to the Etihad Stadium to replace his mentor.
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