{"id":708928,"date":"2026-07-24T14:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708928\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T14:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:15:10","slug":"man-city-news-conference-maresca-on-futures-of-rodri-grealish-and-trafford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708928\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City news conference: Maresca on futures of Rodri, Grealish and Trafford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maresca acknowledges Pep pressure, sticking around &amp; Rodri speculationpublished at 14:02 BST<\/p>\n<p>14:02 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/aa418e67-b7af-41df-ac43-dc82794d895c.jpg.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Jess Anderson<br \/>BBC Sport<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Enzo Maresca has just wrapped up his first press conference as Manchester City boss. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He appeared relaxed and understood the pressure of succeeding Pep Guardiola, widely considered the greatest manager ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As someone who called time on his own Chelsea career way before his contract was up, it was interesting that Maresca mentioned the fact that Manchester City have only had three coaches in 17 years, saying that was &#8220;not normal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will surely understand the expectation at this club for managers to stick around&#8230;And succeed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He acknowledged the need to do a bit of transfer business but would not be drawn on the speculation around Rodri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Time will tell what the future holds for the Spaniard along with the likes of James Trafford and Jack Grealish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maresca acknowledges Pep pressure, sticking around &amp; Rodri speculationpublished at 14:02 BST 14:02 BST Jess AndersonBBC Sport Enzo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-708928","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\/708928","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=708928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}