Why Man City back Enzo Maresca to answer impossible Pep Guardiola call

Replacing Pep Guardiola may well be the toughest job in football, but Enzo Maresca has already shown Manchester City that he is willing to work in the most challenging circumstances. It was back in 2020 when the Italian took his family away from the Amalfi Coast in the middle of the global pandemic in order to accept a job coaching City’s Under-21s.

If that showed Maresca’s willingness, the fact that City singled the coach out in a summer where restrictions had been so tight that even travel in football was limited was a sign of how much the…