{"id":505674,"date":"2025-12-19T08:32:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=505674"},"modified":"2025-12-19T08:33:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:33:01","slug":"maresca-denies-rumors-about-manchester-city-job","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/maresca-denies-rumors-about-manchester-city-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Maresca denies rumors about Manchester City job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blues head coach Enzo Maresca claimed that the news that he will be the next boss of Man City after Pep Guardiola leaves is a hundred percent speculation.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian manager is the ex-assistant to Pep at the Sky Blues, and there have been multiple rumors that the legendary Spanish coach could leave the team from Etihad after the end of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Enzo was hired as Chelsea\u2019s head coach during the summer of 2024 and has a deal until 2029, with an option for an additional campaign.<\/p>\n<p>When the reporter asked Maresca if there was any truth to the Sky Blues reports, the head coach shared, \u201cThat doesn\u2019t matter to me because I know that these are just speculations. Right now, I don\u2019t have the time to think about such things. \u2018<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most important thing is that I have a deal until 2029, and my focus, as I repeated many times, is to make Chelsea better, and I\u2019m happy to be here. A few days ago, I was in Italy, and there were rumors that I would be the next manager of Juventus. So I don\u2019t pay attention to these kinds of rumors because I know that they are false.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;It doesn&#39;t affect me at all because I know it&#39;s 100 per cent speculation&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Enzo Maresca dismisses talk linking him with Manchester City \ud83c\udf99\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MZbvonECmO\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/MZbvonECmO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/2001950642990899250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blues head coach Enzo Maresca claimed that the news that he will be the next boss of Man City after Pep Guardiola [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":505675,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16774,22959],"news_category":[136,14235,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17902,22960],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Chelsea manager shared that links are just speculation.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505676,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505674\/revisions\/505676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505674"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=505674"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=505674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}