{"id":798897,"date":"2026-08-02T07:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/798897\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T07:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:39:10","slug":"josko-gvardiol-man-city-defender-says-enzo-maresca-is-perfect-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/798897\/","title":{"rendered":"Josko Gvardiol: Man City defender says Enzo Maresca is ‘perfect one’"},"content":{"rendered":"

New manager Enzo Maresca is a “perfect one” for Manchester City, says defender Josko Gvardiol.<\/p>\n

The Italian has been given the perhaps unenviable task of taking over from the legendary Pep Guardiola, who stepped down at the end of last season after a trophy-laden decade in charge.<\/p>\n

Maresca signed a three-year deal to succeed the Spaniard, having previously won the Championship title with Leicester and the Club World Cup with Chelsea.<\/p>\n

The 46-year-old took charge of City for the first time in Saturday’s friendly defeat on penalties<\/a> by Inter Milan in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

“The level is that high and he has been chosen with reason as the manager,” said Gvardiol. <\/p>\n

“I think he has a quality, has some new ideas and also we need to see what we are going to do [with] the style of [play], the football we are going to play and the tactics.<\/p>\n

“I think he is a perfect one, but of course, it takes time. It’s something totally new, it’s not easy to change the manager, so we will take time.<\/p>\n

“It’s our job to help him as much as possible and also to listen to try to adapt as quick as possible.<\/p>\n

“I met him, we spoke a little bit about my injury [and] also how we played, how I played before with Pep, and that’s it, more or less.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New manager Enzo Maresca is a “perfect one” for Manchester City, says defender Josko Gvardiol. The Italian has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-798897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798897","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=798897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}