{"id":620367,"date":"2026-06-04T07:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620367\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T07:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:31:09","slug":"manchester-city-chelsea-in-talks-over-enzo-maresca-compensation-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620367\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City, Chelsea in talks over Enzo Maresca compensation \u2014 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Enzo Maresca is expected to be named the successor to Pep Guardiola at Manchester City, but one of the things holding that up right now is any compensation that may be due to Chelsea, Maresca\u2019s prior employer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">When Maresca walked away from the Chelsea job at the turn of the year, he (seemingly) did so voluntarily \u2014 \u201cparted company\u201d was the official verbiage \u2014 and without taking any additional compensation. That severance package could\u2019ve been worth as much as \u00a314m based on his reported annual salary of \u00a24m; though it likely would\u2019ve been a lot less, since we usually insert various break-clauses to avoid having to pay out the full value at their inevitable sacking. But he evidently wanted out so badly that he got nothing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">So it\u2019s a bit surprising that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11679\/13550486\/enzo-maresca-to-man-city-compensation-negotiations-ongoing-with-chelsea-for-italian-to-be-pep-guardiolas-replacement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to Sky Sports<\/a>, Manchester City\u2019s and Chelsea\u2019s lawyers are now \u201cin talks\u201d over \u201ccompensation for\u201d our former head coach. It\u2019s unclear if the talks are centered around the legal details of Enzo\u2019s Chelsea exit, or if perhaps we are taking issue with City effectively tapping up Maresca back in the fall. Maresca reported to the Chelsea powers that be that he was, in effect, doing a job interview, which was then later followed up by a second interview \u2014 all leading to a breakdown between Enzo and the Chelsea Board as we approached the halfway point of the season (Maresca feeling unsupported, clashing with the medical team, etc.).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">If Maresca were still under contract at Chelsea, City would certainly have to pay a transfer fee. But the situation is obviously a bit more complicated than that, and just because Maresca quit \u2014 presuming he did in fact just quit \u2014 that doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that there isn\u2019t still a no-compete clause that he and City have to abide by (and thus negotiate around). Labor laws are fun, I\u2019m sure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In any case, this is all just some lawyers earning their keep at the end of the day, so I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll have an agreement before long, with perhaps a few million being thrown our way. Every penny counts! City are said to be hoping to get this all agreed and announced this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Enzo Maresca is expected to be named the successor to Pep Guardiola at Manchester City, but one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[210707,210708,218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-620367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-around-the-premier-league","tag-ex-chelsea","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}