Enzo Maresca has now been confirmed as the Chelsea manager.

Following the departure of Mauricio Pochettino, Chelsea were in search of a new manager before appointing Enzo Maresca.

Sky Sports’ chief reporter Kaveh Solhekol has reported on how the search went for a new Chelsea manager.

He said: “Chelsea have had a very thorough process with Kieran McKenna, Thomas Frank and Roberto De Zerbi all considered, but they feel Maresca is the one for them. The others were all very impressive candidates.

“Chelsea feel that Maresca is the man for them and he shares their vision for the future. He’s only been a manager for one-and-a-half seasons. He was a manager Italian second division and then he got the Leicester City job.

“There have been some issues behind the scenes and not all Leicester fans have been completely happy with him, even though he got them promotion back to the Premier League. There were problems about recruitment.

“There have been issues but Chelsea just want a head coach. They want somebody who is going to coach the first-team squad and deal with the media. Everything else, they feel they have in place at the moment.”