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Sky Sports Premier League Podcast

One on One | Maresca, one year on at Chelsea

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast

Sky Sports

Sports, Sports News, Soccer, News

4718 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Joe Thomlinson revisits a manager he first met a year ago, Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca. 

In this week's One on One, the Italian reveals that the ‘noise’ around the club is now just about the football, discusses the defensive midfielders he believes are the ‘best in the world’ and explains why he allows his young players to make mistakes. 

Join Joe and Juliette Ferrington on 'One on One from Sky Sports' every Wednesday for more exclusive interviews with football's most famous names. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I said the other day for me in this moment, him and Roderie, they are the two best

0:06.7

defensive midfielders. As a club, we go in the right direction, for sure, probably one year ago.

0:14.1

There was noise around the club from different things. Now, it's quite good feeling that

0:19.5

all the noise around the club is just about, you know,

0:22.6

a football. I really think that the manager is here to, you know, service the players to get him

0:28.7

better and this is my target, to be honest.

0:36.4

Welcome back to One-on-One from Sky Sports, the podcast that brings you exclusive chats with big names from the world of football.

0:43.0

I'm Joe Tomlinson, and this week it's a first for one-on-one because it's a second time on this show we're hearing from the same manager.

0:49.9

It was around this time last year that I first went to meet Enzo Moreska at Chelsea.

0:53.9

He'd not long

0:54.6

been in the job having joined the Blues from Leicester City in July of 2024. So one year on and

1:00.6

one conference league and a club world cup later, I went to see him again. This time we chatted

1:05.3

about the phenomena that is Esteval, the player he thinks is the best defensive midfielder in

1:10.8

the league, Moises

1:11.5

Caicedo, and of course, we have a catch-up about what life has been like for him over his

1:16.1

first year in charge. So for the second time, this is my one-on-one with Enzo Moreska.

1:27.1

Enzo, thank you so much for joining me.

1:29.3

It's pretty much exactly a year since we last did a one-on-one podcast together.

1:34.3

So I think it's a really interesting time to ask you how you think you've developed as a coach over your first year and a bit at Chelsea.

1:42.3

I try to learn as much as I can from every day, from training session, from games.

1:52.0

So I think all of us with time, we are getting better.

1:56.5

And how do you think this place has changed in your presence?

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