Chelsea have agreed a deal with Leicester City to appoint Enzo Maresca as their new manager, according to reports. The Italian is set to be handed a bumper five-year contract and the Foxes are in line to receive a healthy compensation fee.
Thomas Tuchel, Graham Potter and Mauricio Pochettino have all occupied the Chelsea hotseat since Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital took control of the club in 2022 – and all three of them have met the same fate.
Despite the high turnover rate, transfer expert Fabrizio Romano claims that the Blues have decided to hand Maresca a bumper five-year contract. And as if that wasn’t long enough, they have also opted to include a clause in the agreement which would allow them to extend the deal by a further 12 months.
Maresca only has one full season of experience in charge of a senior team, leading Leicester to the Championship title in 2023/24. But he won’t stick around to try and keep them in the Premier League as an agreement is now ‘done’, with his Blues contract due to run until at least 2029.
Leicester are believed to be due a compensation fee in the region of £10million. And Boehly will be forced to shell out millions more if the appointment doesn’t work out, due to the length of Maresca’s new contract.
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