Enzo Maresca worked with Pep Guardiola in Man City’s treble-winning season, and seems to have a similar ideology with the Man City boss.

Nevertheless, Enzo Maresca has tried to distance himself from the Pep Guardiola comparisons.

Maresca has said he wants to play his own style, and doesn’t like when he’s being told to play like Pep Guardiola.

“What I don’t like is people, or you, or fans, or the club expecting the same football that Manchester City is doing,” the new Blues’ head coach said.

“Because when I joined Leicester and I met the chairman and sporting director, they asked me, ‘We want to change the style and we want to play the same way that City play’. And I told them, ‘We don’t have the same players and I am not the same manager’.

“The same thing when I met Chelsea. I said, ‘The idea is that idea, but probably we need time because the players also need to understand what way we want to play and it’s a bit different’.

“This is something that I struggle a little bit with sometimes, when I see something saying, ‘Because he’s bald and with a beard, he wants to play the same’. No, I don’t want. I try to play the way that we want to play.

“It is probably close because I fell in love with that idea, but that does not mean it is exactly the same way.”