{"id":63875,"date":"2026-07-31T17:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/63875\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T17:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:36:23","slug":"selling-rodri-to-real-madrid-would-leave-enzo-maresca-with-a-massive-midfield-problem-at-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/63875\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling Rodri to Real Madrid would leave Enzo Maresca with a massive midfield problem at Man City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maresca, though, is keeping a calm head as he prepares for what will be the biggest challenge of his managerial career to date.<\/p>\n

“I want to say it is a privilege because the reason why the club decided to go for me, that is a privilege,” he said when asked about following in Guardiola’s footsteps. “I have said many times, I consider Pep the best coach in the world in the last 20-25 years. It is a challenge.<\/p>\n

“Also the history of the manager with many years in the same club, they struggle a bit. Sir Alex, Arsene. But it is also a challenge to do the right things.”<\/p>\n

Whatever happens, the former Chelsea head coach believes “time” will be key<\/a>. “I know the organisation quite well and the people inside the club from years ago. I just said before that when a club has three [sic] managers in almost 20 years, it shows how serious [they are]. The structure understands to give time for everything.<\/p>\n

“The organisation is the main thing. This club and organisation has had three [sic] managers in 17 years. That is not normal and has not happened often. I am confident that we can continue to do a great job and continue to do the job that has been done in the last 14, 15 years since Roberto Mancini was here.”<\/p>\n

Despite his relaxed stance, it’s going to be a bumpy ride at the Etihad next season. Maresca will desperately hope that he has Rodri by his side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maresca, though, is keeping a calm head as he prepares for what will be the biggest challenge of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1907,25807,418,85,82,272,100,83,1102,17],"class_list":["post-63875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-analysis","tag-e-maresca","tag-features","tag-laliga","tag-madrid","tag-manchester-city","tag-premier-league","tag-real-madrid","tag-rodri","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}