{"id":387657,"date":"2026-01-04T16:52:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/387657\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T16:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:52:21","slug":"explained-why-enzo-maresca-opted-not-to-demand-potential-14m-chelsea-pay-off-after-shock-exit-from-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/387657\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: Why Enzo Maresca opted not to demand potential \u00a314m Chelsea pay-off after shock exit from Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maresca is also understood to be angry at suggestions that he fell out with the club’s medical staff, and subsequently risked the health of first-team stars such as Cole Palmer and Reece James. He was frustrated with the amount of confrontations he was forced to have with the club’s power-brokers, especially when it came to team selections and potential substitutions.<\/p>\n

Regardless, he has been tipped to make a\u00a0swift return to the dugout by Premier League legend Alan Shearer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He said: “His time at Chelsea should be viewed as a successful spell for Maresca. They beat the best team around last year in PSG; he out-coached the Coach of the Year. They won the Conference League, which you\u2019d expect, but not many thought they\u2019d go to the Club World Cup and win.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s in and around the top four, so for me, he\u2019s done a really good job. He\u2019ll leave with his stock high. I don\u2019t think he\u2019ll struggle to get another job because of the work he\u2019s done at Chelsea and Leicester. Whether he gets one of the big ones remains to be seen. There\u2019s been talk about City, hasn\u2019t there, but it depends on if Pep Guardiola decides to leave and when, but he won\u2019t struggle for a job in England or abroad.”<\/p>\n

He added: “You know when you go into that job what you’re doing, it’s a very different football club to others in terms of how it’s managed. That’s not Maresca, that’s the people above him. Their model is obviously to buy young, develop them, and give them crazy long contracts with the potential to sell. I don’t think you’re going to win the league like that. You might get into the top four because you can spend, but in the main, the guy coming in has to do better than the guy that’s just left.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maresca is also understood to be angry at suggestions that he fell out with the club’s medical staff,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[464,129804,1084,403,99,6641],"class_list":{"0":"post-387657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-chelsea","9":"tag-e-maresca","10":"tag-premier-league","11":"tag-soccer","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-transfers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387657","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=387657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}