{"id":470695,"date":"2026-05-28T04:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T04:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/470695\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T04:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T04:18:22","slug":"enzo-fernandez-fabrizio-romano-reveals-if-chelsea-star-will-join-man-city-maresca-loves-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/470695\/","title":{"rendered":"Enzo Fernandez: Fabrizio Romano reveals if Chelsea star will join Man City \u2013 Maresca \u2018loves\u2019 him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fabrizio Romano has revealed that Manchester City are not planning to raid Chelsea for Enzo Fernandez, even though Enzo Maresca \u201cloves\u201d the Argentina international midfielder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/enzo-maresca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maresca<\/a> worked with Fernandez at Chelsea, and the two had a great relationship at the London club.<\/p>\n<p>With Pep Guardiola leaving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/manchester-city\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man City<\/a>, Maresca is now set to become the new manager at the Etihad Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>There has been speculation that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-city-talks-sign-enzo-fernandez-chelsea-wants-play-enzo-maresca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maresca wants to sign Fernandez from Chelsea for Man City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea have endured a bitterly disappointing season, and there are suggestions that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/chelsea-leading-star-set-leave-cole-palmer-tempted-accept-sensational-transfer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fernandez wants to leave the Blues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/chelsea-real-madrid-enzo-fernandez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Real Madrid are also keen on a 2026 summer deal for Fernandez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/chelsea-real-madrid-enzo-fernandez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea make two \u2018demands\u2019 of Real Madrid to sell Enzo Fernandez<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Transfer guru <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/fabrizio-romano\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a> has said that while Maresca appreciates Fernandez, the incoming Man City manager is not planning to sign the midfielder from his former club, Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>Man City NOT planning to raid Chelsea for Enzo Fernandez<\/p>\n<p>Romano said about Man City and Fernandez on his <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sguzdPn4neg&amp;pp=ygUPZmFicml6aW8gcm9tYW5v\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a>: \u201cFor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/enzo-fernandez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enzo<\/a> Fernandez, at the moment, my understanding is that Manchester City are not actively working on this deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen, if the question from fans is, does Enzo Maresca appreciate Enzo Fernandez, I tell you that he\u2019s a player he loves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe connection between the two Enzos at Chelsea was amazing, fantastic, but, I mean, it doesn\u2019t mean that he has to sign Enzo Fernandez at Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the moment, there is zero ongoing between Man City and Enzo Fernandez.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/feature-premier-league-flops-of-the-season-one-per-club\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Every Premier League club\u2019s flop of the season features Salah and top Man Utd target<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen, should the situation change, maybe because they can\u2019t get Elliot Anderson or any other story, we will let you know.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, at the moment, is Maresca appreciation, that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaresca also appreciates Joao Pedro, Cucurella, Cole Palmer \u2013 I can tell you 50 players appreciated by Maresca.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, at the moment, Manchester City and Chelsea are not negotiating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t ask for the price, so there is nothing really concrete into it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould that change, obviously, as every single day, we will let you know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What Enzo Fernandez and Enzo Maresca have said about each other<\/p>\n<p>On May 6, 2025, Fernandez<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/enzo-fernandez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a>shared his opinion on Maresca on Chelsea\u2019s official website after scoring against Liverpool: \u201cIt\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve scored a goal that quickly in my whole career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe manager told me to get into that position, Pedro was there, it was a great ball and a good finish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so happy with my numbers. Being a box-to-box midfielder, it\u2019s a really good number of goals and assists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was difficult in the beginning, getting to know Enzo and the way he wanted to play, but now I totally understand him and what he wants from me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maresca has also previously raved about Fernandez and said on February 26, 2025 after Chelsea\u2019s win against Southampton: \u201cHe behaved as a leader and he is doing top, fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor sure Enzo has taken a step forward in that sense. He is showing how good a leader he is, how good he is on the ball, how good he is off the ball and we are delighted with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/joao-pedro-chelsea-barcelona-blueco-decision-fabrizio-romano-update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fabrizio Romano reveals Chelsea \u2018message\u2019 to Barcelona about selling Joao Pedro<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fabrizio Romano has revealed that Manchester City are not planning to raid Chelsea for Enzo Fernandez, even though&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6898,127400,42525,8583,914,1100,61,60,8579,43,1102,112,9418],"class_list":["post-470695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chelsea","tag-enzo-fernandez","tag-enzo-maresca","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-front-page","tag-home-page","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-manchester-city","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}