{"id":225342,"date":"2026-06-22T23:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225342\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T23:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:30:10","slug":"manchester-city-close-in-on-enzo-maresca-appointment-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225342\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City close in on Enzo Maresca appointment \u2013 reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports in Italy have claimed City will pay the London outfit around \u00a317million to secure the services of the 46-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Maresca, City\u2019s preferred choice to succeed Pep Guardiola, has been out of work since leaving Chelsea on New Year\u2019s Day but an agreement had to be reached over the remaining three years of his contract.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2.84671696.jpg\" alt=\"Enzo Maresca (left) and Pep Guardiola on the touchline\" data-title=\"\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Martin Rickett\" data-usage-terms=\"FILE PHOTO EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club\/league logos or \u201clive\u201d services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club\/league\/player publica\u2026\"  \/>Maresca (left) looks set to succeed Pep Guardiola (Martin Rickett\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>He is now expected to sign a three-year contract at the Etihad Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>City did not comment on the reports when contacted by the Press Association on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Maresca was immediately installed as favourite for the position when Guardiola announced he was leaving in the final week of the 2025-26 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation over a possible return to City, where he was previously Guardiola\u2019s assistant, had already been growing for several months.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2.76076725.jpg\" alt=\"Leicester's Championship title parade in May 2024City Champions Parade\" data-title=\"Leicester City Champions Parade\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Archive\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Archive\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Joe Giddens\" data-usage-terms=\"Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.\"  \/>Maresca led Leicester to promotion in 2024 (Joe Giddens\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>As a manager, Maresca led Leicester to promotion to the Premier League in 2024 before guiding Chelsea to Conference League and Club World Cup glory the following year.<\/p>\n<p>He left Stamford Bridge after a poor run of form and a breakdown in his relationship with the club\u2019s ownership.<\/p>\n<p>Maresca faces a tough challenge in following the most successful manager in City\u2019s history, but his previous work under Guardiola and familiarity with the club made him the standout candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reports in Italy have claimed City will pay the London outfit around \u00a317million to secure the services of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-225342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}