{"id":652793,"date":"2026-06-22T20:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652793\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T20:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:25:09","slug":"enzo-maresca-man-city-close-in-on-appointment-of-italian-as-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652793\/","title":{"rendered":"Enzo Maresca: Man City close in on appointment of Italian as manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

City players who are not involved in World Cup action are expected to return for pre-season in mid-July.<\/p>\n

But without Maresca being in place, any player potentially considering their future at the club has remained in limbo as they are yet to meet the new boss for talks.<\/p>\n

Transfer business has continued in the background though and City have already had two bids rejected for Nottingham Forest<\/a> midfielder Elliot Anderson. They are expected to make another offer.<\/p>\n

The chase for the England international will seemingly be done with Maresca’s blessing as the club look to replace departing captain Bernardo Silva.<\/p>\n

City Xtra, external<\/a> website’s Freddie Pye told BBC Sport: “Given the absence of any pre-season training until next month, and even those activities being restricted to non-World Cup players, perhaps Maresca and City have not lost out on anything via a delayed announcement, with the Italian likely to be in close contact over planning for the new season.<\/p>\n

“City have a compelling and desirable sales pitch to offer players these days, irrespective of the head coach – though not overlooking the allure of Guardiola. This is a winning project for players, a clear opportunity to win immediate silverware, unrivalled facilities and perhaps joining the start of an exciting new era.<\/p>\n

“The futures of players may be a different story, as some may view the departure of Guardiola as the end of a career segment themselves, giving them little reason to remain if being part of the more successful seasons of late at the club.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City players who are not involved in World Cup action are expected to return for pre-season in mid-July.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-652793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652793","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=652793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}