Italian joins from Leicester after winning promotion
have confirmed the appointment of Enzo Maresca on a five-year contract, the new manager having accepted the challenge of returning the club to the Champions League as a bare minimum. Maresca led Leicester to the Championship title over this past season – his only full campaign as a head coach – and he succeeds Mauricio Pochettino, who left Chelsea by mutual consent two weeks ago.
The length of Maresca’s contract – which has a club option of a further year – is significant; Pochettino was given only two years and it is part of the owners’ desire to go in a different direction. The season under Pochettino ended with five straight Premier League wins, a sixth-placed finish and Uefa Conference League qualification, which was an improvement on 12th place from 2022-23.
A message talked about a need to be “consistently winning or contending for the Premier League” and “consistently playing in the Champions League”. Chelsea will play in the revamped Club World Cup in the summer of 2025, having qualified as the 2021 Champions League winners. Maresca counts Pep Guardiola among his influences, having worked under him at Manchester City, initially as the club’s elite development squad manager in 2020-21 when he won the Premier League 2 title by 14 points. After a short-lived stint as the manager of Parma the following season – he won four and lost four of 13 Serie B matches – he returned to City in the summer of 2022 as Guardiola’s assistant and helped them to treble-winning glory.
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