In the Andalusian city, Maresca enjoys great respect after playing more than 100 times in a fruitful four-year run. Between 2005 and 2009, the Italian helped Sevilla win the UEFA Super Cup, Copa del Rey, Supercopa de Espana, and UEFA Cup thrice. After being promoted to the Foxes this season, the player might be tempted to leave.
Due to Profitability and Sustainability violations, Leicester is anticipated to receive a sports discipline from the Premier League in the form of a point deduction. As a result, the Championship winners would start 2024–2025 with less points.
Conversely, Sevilla, under the direction of sporting director Orta, may be searching for their fourth permanent manager since Orta’s appointment to the position last year. Thus far this season, the former Leeds United manager has fired both Jose Luis Mendilibar and Diego Alonso, whom he appointed, before bringing in former Watford coach Quique Sanchez Flores in the middle of the pack.
The club sit 12th in LaLiga with four matches remaining but will miss out on European football next year due to a poor start to the campaign.
Despite winning promotion back to the Premier League, Leicester’s financial struggles this summer are expected to tempt Maresca to join Sevilla. Additionally, the sale of midfield talisman Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall—who may be reluctantly let go to improve the club’s accounting outlook—is also expected to be a factor. Maresca has nevertheless declared that he is content at the team and that he will supposedly speak with the Foxes management in the next few days about his future there.
This is not likely to stop Orta, though, since the 44-year-old coach is thought to be admired by the man who was recently seen viewing highlights from one of Leicester’s games.
