The Football Reporters: How Maresca’s Chelsea tenure unravelled

ESPN FC

ESPN

Sports, Soccer

4.2 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Rob Dawson, James Olley and Mark Ogden discuss Enzo Maresca’s departure from Chelsea and explain why Liam Rosenior is the main candidate to replace the Italian manager. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi there. Surprise.
0:02.0	30 for 30 presents Booja.
0:05.2	Can I get a witness from the congregation?
0:08.1	You can't stop authenticity.
0:10.0	Boo ya!
0:11.0	Stewart was exactly like you saw him on camera, off camera.
0:14.5	He dialed it up 10%.
0:15.7	Can you imagine the impact of young black boys and girls looking at that going, I feel seen.
0:21.4	He changed the culture.
0:22.7	He changed sports.
0:24.2	Stream Booja, presented by Modelo, right now on the ESPN app.
0:39.3	Welcome to the football reporters.
0:43.4	Obviously, there's never a dull moment with football in 2026 started off with a bang and its first managerial casualty.
0:46.0	James, you've been reporting on Enzo Mreska's departure from Chelsea just before we start.
0:51.1	What are the key points and how has this happened?
0:54.6	Happy New Year. Happy New Year.
0:56.1	Happy New Year.
0:57.3	Nice quiet start in the world of sports journalism.
1:01.3	Yeah, so look, I mean, obviously this only came to light on the first day of 2026,
1:08.1	but in reality this has been going on for a while and things have kind of come to
1:13.9	ahead as a result of the last 20 days or so basically ever since he made that comment
1:20.6	loreska publicly that he had the worst 48 hours of his Chelsea career just before they beat
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 16 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from ESPN, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of ESPN and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.