Chelsea ‘handed major boost in Enzo Maresca pursuit’ – Sports Mole

Chelsea have reportedly made another breakthrough in their efforts to appoint Leicester City’s Enzo Maresca as their new head coach.

For the past six days, the Blues hierarchy have been contemplating how to replace Mauricio Pochettino, who departed his role by mutual consent.

At one stage, as many as four names appeared to be in the running for the post, but that was allegedly whittled down to three over the weekend.

Ipswich Town boss Kieran McKenna is said to have been contacted to inform him that he would <a href=”/football/chelsea/news/chelsea-eliminate-one-name-from-managerial-shortlist_544606.html”>no longer be considered for the position</a> at Stamford Bridge.

While that seemingly led Brentford’s Thomas Frank and former Brighton . . .