{"id":350400,"date":"2025-12-15T16:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/350400\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T16:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:43:07","slug":"enzo-maresca-chelsea-boss-says-he-is-happy-but-wounds-still-open-after-worst-48-hours-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/350400\/","title":{"rendered":"Enzo Maresca: Chelsea boss says he is ‘happy’ but wounds still open after ‘worst 48 hours’ claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Appointed in July 2024, Maresca feels he has outperformed other managers who have faced a rebuilding job when joining a major Premier League force, such as Mikel Arteta at Arsenal<\/a>, Jurgen Klopp previously at Liverpool<\/a>, and even Ruben Amorim at Manchester United<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Amorim has had strong public backing despite his struggles.<\/p>\n

The initial comments from Maresca came while hands-on owner Behdad Eghbali was overseas, with sporting directors Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart stepping in to lead in his absence alongside other key staff.<\/p>\n

Chelsea<\/a>‘s aim this season is to qualify for the Champions League and challenge in cup competitions, while they are still not entirely out of the Premier League title race.<\/p>\n

When Maresca joined Chelsea<\/a>, he was told he would be assessed at the end of his second year. Predecessor Mauricio Pochettino did not pass such a review following his first, after not agreeing with the future direction at the American-owned club.<\/p>\n

In the case of Maresca, Chelsea<\/a> privately accept emotional outbursts can happen after tense matches.<\/p>\n

It has also been explained that he is speaking his third or fourth language, as an Italian who speaks Spanish at home with his family.<\/p>\n

All sides accept the current situation is not ideal but expect to work through it. From Chelsea<\/a>‘s perspective, disagreements are normal in football, but making them public is not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Appointed in July 2024, Maresca feels he has outperformed other managers who have faced a rebuilding job when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-350400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}