Chelsea ready to offer five-year deal to Leicester’s Enzo Maresca

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  • Chelsea have been granted permission to speak to Italian
  • Leicester will want around £10m to release their manager

Chelsea are ready to give Enzo Maresca a five-year deal after being granted permission to speak to the Leicester manager. Maresca, who is expected to agree to take the job, has emerged as the favoured candidate to succeed Mauricio Pochettino after an intense weekend of talks.

Chelsea and Kieran McKenna, who is poised to snub Brighton and sign a new deal at Ipswich, cooled their interest in each other and the Stamford Bridge club have not moved forward with Brentford’s Thomas Frank. Senior figures have repeatedly played down suggestions of interest in Roberto De Zerbi and believe that Maresca’s heavy focus on possession will suit a squad full of technically gifted players.

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Written by Jacob Steinberg
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/27/chelsea-leicester-enzo-maresca-managers-job under the title “Chelsea ready to offer five-year deal to Leicester’s Enzo Maresca”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.