# ‘You need to evolve’: Enzo Maresca plots life after Pep at Manchester City

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/you-need-to-evolve-enzo-maresca-plots-life-after-pep-at-manchester-city/
- Published: 2026-07-24T18:13:47+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-24T18:33:14+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jul/24/enzo-maresco-manchester-city-pep-guardiola
- Topics: Americas, Art, Celebrity, Culture, Entertainment, Sport, World

## Key points

- Maresca accepts the scale of replacing Guardiola at City.
- His previous City experience underpins the appointment.
- City paid Chelsea £17m in compensation.

## Summary

Enzo Maresca has returned to Manchester City as Pep Guardiola’s successor, acknowledging the difficulty of following a manager who won 20 trophies in 10 years. He said clubs can struggle after long-serving, highly successful managers leave, but described the role as a challenge to continue the work already done for the club and its supporters.

Maresca previously managed City’s elite development squad and was Guardiola’s assistant during the 2022-23 treble-winning season, experience that appears to have persuaded the club’s hierarchy he is suited to the job. City have had only three managers in 17 years — Roberto Mancini, Manuel Pellegrini and Guardiola — while the club reportedly paid Chelsea £17m compensation after Maresca left there on New Year’s Day.

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