Enzo Maresca is not a manager who lets sentiment cloud his judgment. If anything, his time at Chelsea taught him exactly where the bodies are buried,...
Enzo Maresca is not a manager who lets sentiment cloud his judgment. If anything, his time at Chelsea taught him exactly where the bodies are buried, and now he wants to dig them up for Manchester City. Sources have confirmed to GoalZaza that the City boss is preparing the ground for a potential double raid on his former employers, targeting midfield orchestrator Enzo Fernandez and attacking full back Malo Gusto.Let me be clear from the start. This is not a done deal. Far from it. As of this morning, neither move is advancing beyond the speculative phase. But I am reliably told that could change in a hurry. And when a manager of Maresca's calibre starts whispering about specific targets, you can bet the club's recruitment machine is already humming in the background.Fernandez would be the marquee name, the kind of signing that sends a shiver through the Premier League. His ability to dictate tempo from deep, to break lines with a single pass, is exactly what City need to refresh an ageing midfield engine room. But there is a rub. Chelsea paid a fortune for him, and they won't let him go cheaply, especially not to a direct rival. Maresca will have to rely on his inside knowledge of the player's mentality and how he fits into a more structured possession system.Then there is Gusto. The French right back is raw, explosive, and still learning his craft. But under Maresca at Stamford Bridge, he showed flashes of the kind of overlapping menace that makes a backline truly unpredictable. City need cover and competition for Kyle Walker, and Gusto offers a different profile: younger, more aggressive in the final third, and far less prone to the positional lapses that have crept into Walker's game. A double swoop would be audacious, but Maresca has never been afraid of audacity.The real question is whether Chelsea's hierarchy, still smarting from the club's chaotic rebuild, will entertain selling two core assets to a title rival. Or will Maresca's old contacts prove useless when the bidding war begins Keep your eyes on this one. It has all the hallmarks of a transfer saga that could genuinely reshape the top of the table.
