How much it would cost Chelsea to sack Enzo Maresca this season

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Adam Williams has exclusively told TBR Football that it would cost Chelsea over £25million in compensation if they were to sack Enzo Maresca this season.

Enzo Maresca is riding the momentum of Chelsea’s impressive 2-1 win over Liverpool last weekend, but it was just several days before that he was under pressure.

The Blues had won just one in five before defeating Benfica, with that victory coming against Lincoln City in the EFL Cup.

A draw with Brentford and defeats against Bayern Munich, Manchester United, and Brighton had left some fans starting to question Maresca’s ability to lead the team.

Given Chelsea’s long-standing history of hiring and firing managers quickly, this form instantly puts a manager’s future in doubt, and Maresca is no exception.

Exclusive: The cost of sacking Enzo Maresca has been revealed, along with his Chelsea status

TBR Football’s finance expert, Adam Williams, explained how much it would cost for Chelsea to fire Maresca this season, and how the club is currently viewing him.

“Maresca has three-and-a-half years remaining on his deal. As far as I’ve seen, there’s no reliable reporting on how much he earns at Chelsea.

“Previous BlueCo-era managers in Potter and Pochettino have been on around £10m per year. Maresca, I suspect, will have a slightly more modest remuneration package, but it won’t be a million miles off.

“It will be performance-linked too, so he’ll be earning more this season in the Champions League, plus he’ll have cashed in bonuses from the Club World Cup. Also, those salary figures we’ve quoted probably aren’t just basic pay. There will have been some common-sense calculations done before those figures were briefed to the media in terms of what the managers’ likely take-home was going to be.

“So let’s say, for the sake of argument, Maresca is on £7.5m per year as a basic salary, before bonuses and so on. If they were to terminate the deal now, you’re looking at over £25m in compensation, assuming that there isn’t some kind of break clause that they can trigger. That’s the remaining value of his contract.

“Sometimes that £25m figure is paid out all in one go, whereas in other circumstances the manager will continue to receive their salary as normal, just without performing their duties. Either way, that cost will count towards UEFA’s financial settlement straight away, as the costs of dismissing an employee are expensed as soon as they arise. That’s not ideal, given that the margins for compliance are going to be pretty thin going forward.

“It’s been a pretty slow start to the season under Maresca, but personally, I can’t see him going unless things get absolutely cataclysmic. He’s a BlueCo company man and the kind of development manager that they need for their player trading model to make any sense.”

Enzo Maresca responded to the pressure building on him at Chelsea

Chelsea’s recent fixture against Liverpool was a crucial one for Maresca and the entire squad due to the pressure that was building upon them.

Goals from Moises Caicedo and Estevao Willian secured a big three points at Stamford Bridge as they defeated the defending Premier League champions 2-1.

It ensured that the talk surrounding the club during the international break has been positive, when it could easily have been about Maresca’s future.

Now Chelsea can look ahead to their return after the international fixtures, where they will face out-of-form Nottingham Forest.

The Blues currently sit seventh in the Premier League table, remain in the EFL Cup, and have Champions League football to contend with.