{"id":3027,"date":"2026-09-03T06:57:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=3027"},"modified":"2026-09-03T06:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:57:25","slug":"enzo-maresca-opens-up-on-talks-with-big-club-man-utd-before-being-offered-chelsea-job-and-gives-honest-ruben-amorim-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=3027","title":{"rendered":"Enzo Maresca opens up on talks with &#8216;big club&#8217; Man Utd before being offered Chelsea job and gives honest Ruben Amorim assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI am Chelsea manager, happy to be here,\u201d Maresca explained. \u201cIn the moment that Chelsea [contacted] me for the first time, I said already many times, I was immediately convinced and sure. First of all, because of the club, how big it is and then because of the squad, because the squad for me last year was very good, and this season it\u2019s also very good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On United, he added: \u201cI think Manchester United is a big club, they have a big manager and no doubt that they are going to do important things with Ruben. The only thing I can say is that I really appreciate Ruben. I&#8217;ve watched Ruben&#8217;s games since he was in Sporting. He&#8217;s a magnificent manager. Like all the managers, when you start a new project, sometimes you can struggle a little bit more or a little bit less, but at the end, you&#8217;re going to struggle. I don&#8217;t have any doubt that he&#8217;s a fantastic manager.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-ng\/lists\/enzo-maresca-talks-man-utd-before-offered-chelsea-job-honest-ruben-amorim-assessment\/blte7e00c43973fb4f2\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am Chelsea manager, happy to be here,\u201d Maresca explained. \u201cIn the moment that Chelsea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}