Enzo Maresca rejected an approach from AC Milan because he only had the Manchester City job on his mind, it is claimed.
Earlier on Friday, City confirmed that manager Pep Guardiola will leave the club after Sunday’s Premier League finale against Aston Villa, bringing an end to a decade-long reign. He led the club to 17 major trophies, including six Premier League titles and a Champions League.
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The magnitude of his impact is not only obvious through silverware, though. The Manchester club will name the newly developed north stand after him and it will be fully open for the first time for his last game in charge of the club. There will also be a statue of the Spaniard, too.
Maresca snubs Milan
It is being widely reported that the successor to Guardiola is already in place: Enzo Maresca, who left Chelsea during the season and remains out of work. According to Nicolo Schira, the Italian has turned down several approaches in the last months to wait for City’s call.
He names Napoli, Milan, Fiorentina, Tottenham and Fenerbahçe as among those who have asked information. However, his dream is to replace Pep at Manchester City, and that is now set to ‘become true’.
While recent reports have suggested that Milan are moving forward with Allegri, there have been doubts about this in the past few weeks. With the decline in results since March and the rumours of the Italy job growing, it is only natural that the club made some calls to prepare for any eventuality.
The time to grab him was last summer. Same for Farioli. We are always one step behind or sideways.
He was still at Chelsea last summer. And look how they’ve done since he left…
Not much after he left. CFC in reality is a very immature team as the owners keep buying young players and then putting them on long contracts. There is no backbone to the team. He left Chelsea on his own after getting them into the CL and winning the Club WC for what that’s worth.
He wouldn’t have survived in Milan… just look at how Chelsea sacked him, because he wanted 100% control. And you think he would have succeeded with out current managerial structure?
Why any coach come at Italy if England clubs ask for him?