Enzo Maresca spent 18 months as Chelsea manager before he left Stamford Bridge earlier this year

Former Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca has been spotted attending a match of his former employers, Leicester City. Maresca parted company with Chelsea at the start of the year and went on to be replaced by Liam Rosenior.

Maresca’s final match as Chelsea boss was a 2-2 draw with Bournemouth in the Premier League, which was also the club’s last fixture of 2025.

Rosenior was confirmed as Chelsea’s new manager soon after, leaving his job at the Blues’ sister club Strasbourg, and has gone on to win eight of his 12 games in charge so far.

Maresca left Chelsea at a time when there were continuous rumours linking him with the manager’s job at Manchester City, where reports claimed he could be a contender to replace Pep Guardiola at the Etihad Stadium.

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Almost two months on from his exit at Stamford Bridge, Maresca has been spotted attending a Leicester City match, a club he managed before joining Chelsea.

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Saturday lunchtime saw Leicester face Norwich City in the Championship, with various reports claiming that Maresca was spotted at the King Power Stadium to watch the fixture.

Leicester went into the game in 22nd place in the Championship table and in the relegation zone, in what is their first season back in the second tier after their relegation from the Premier League last term.

Maresca had guided the Foxes to promotion to the Premier League during the 2023/24 season before going on to be named Chelsea boss in the summer of 2024.

There have been tentative links suggesting that Maresca could be a target for Leicester to become their manager once again.

Gary Rowett was named as the Foxes’ new boss on a deal that runs until the end of the season, but it remains to be seen who will take charge of the 2015/16 Premier League champions when the campaign is over.

At the time of Maresca’s exit, Chelsea issued a statement where they sent their best wishes to their former manager.

“Chelsea Football Club and Head Coach Enzo Maresca have parted company,” Chelsea said in a statement.

“During his time at the club, Enzo led the team to success in the UEFA Conference League and the FIFA Club World Cup. Those achievements will remain an important part of the club’s recent history, and we thank him for his contributions to the club.

“With key objectives still to play for across four competitions including qualification for Champions League football, Enzo and the club believe a change gives the team the best chance of getting the season back on track. We wish Enzo well for the future.”

INDIANAPOLIS — In each of the past two drafts, the Eagles diverged from their typical first-round philosophy.

In 2024, general manager Howie Roseman ended the organization’s 22-year drought in selecting a defensive back in the first round when they drafted Quinyon Mitchell. Last year, Roseman and the Eagles drafted South Jersey native and linebacker Jihaad Campbell, from a position that had previously not been an early-round priority.

The Eagles roster needs retooling heading into the 2026 season, and among the potential needs are at safety and tight end. The Birds have never drafted a first-round safety and haven’t selected a tight end that early since 1988.

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With tight ends Dallas Goedert, Grant Calcaterra, and Kylen Granson, and safeties Marcus Epps and Reed Blankenship all are set to be free agents, could Roseman and the Eagles buck another trend?

Here is what we’ve learned about the Eagles’ interest in draft prospects so far at the 2026 NFL Scouting Combine:

Interest in tight ends is real

The Eagles have spent a significant amount of time speaking with tight ends this week in Indianapolis. Roseman recently talked about needing “more of a diverse skill set at that position” last season.

The prized player of the group is Oregon’s Kenyon Sadiq, the consensus top tight end of this class, but he had not yet met with the Eagles when he held his podium session Thursday afternoon.

There were several other players the Eagles did meet with, informally and formally. NC State’s Justin Joly, Georgia’s Oscar Delp, Ohio State’s Max Klare, Texas’ Jack Endries, Vanderbilt’s Eli Stowers, and Ole Miss’ Dae’Quan Wright were among the players who met with the Eagles this week.

Klare, Delp, Joly, and Stowers are more like the tight ends the Eagles have drafted in the past, majoring as receivers with deficiencies as blockers, while Endries and Wright are a little more well-rounded as blockers.

Eagles running backs coach Jemal Singleton coached Texas A&M’s Nate Boerkircher at the Senior Bowl as part of Eagles D-line coach Clint Hurtt’s staff, and Boerkircher met informally with the Eagles this week at the combine. Boerkircher plays a more traditional in-line tight end role and is a physical blocker that revels in doing the dirty work that doesn’t always equate to targets and catches.

“I think [NFL teams] like my toughness and my high motor,” Boerkircher said Thursday. “I don’t have, you know, crazy stats. So that limited stats thing is brought up a little bit, and we talked about that, but [my film] shows what it needs to show.”

Ohio State’s Will Kacmarek is one of the best blocking tight ends in the draft class, and while there hasn’t been any reported interest from the Eagles, he would be a welcome addition to a room that needs that type of player.

Even if the Eagles don’t draft Sadiq in the first round, there are several other players that seem to be piquing the team’s interest.

Another Toledo prospect?

The Eagles struck gold by drafting Mitchell from Toledo, which continues to churn out NFL secondary talent. And there are three more players from the Rockets program in this class.

There’s one specifically, though, that the Eagles brought in for a formal interview, and that’s safety Emmanuel McNeil-Warren. The 6-foot-3 player is explosive, can defend the run, and has short-area coverage ability. He has excellent ball skills to intercept the ball and force fumbles, and was teammates with Mitchell for two years at Toledo.

“[Mitchell] was a motivation for us, so he just pushed us to be great, pushed us to work hard every day and be the best person we could be,” McNeil-Warren said of his former teammate. “Just coming in [to Toledo], knowing you got a chip on your shoulder, especially for a small school … just the work ethic we put in, we just got to keep grinding.”

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McNeil-Warren tested well for his size at the combine, running a 4.52-second 40-yard dash, jumping a 35.5 inch vertical, and a 10-foot, 2-inch broad jump. He is among two other safeties that could go in the first round, which includes consensus top-10 pick Caleb Downs and Oregon’s Dillon Thieneman, who had an outstanding testing session.

Even with limited reported interest in the position group, the Eagles should strongly consider drafting a safety with a deep group this year. They may be waiting to bring other top safety prospects in for pre-draft visits over the next month.

Quick hitters

Moyuka Uchijima reached her first final of the season at the Megasaray Hotels Open in Antalya, overcoming a set and a break deficit to defeat Mayar Sherif 4-6, 7-5, 7-5 in a three-hour marathon.

The semi-final clash between the No. 3 and No. 5 seeds was a masterclass in attrition, played under the intense Turkish sun. Uchijima, the world No. 104, entered the match without having dropped a set all week, after clinical dismissals of Despina Papamichail, Anastasia Gasanova, and Katarzyna Kawa.

However, that streak was quickly snapped by Mayar Sherif’s heavy topspin and tactical aggression, which allowed the Egyptian to claim the opening set 6-4.

The match appeared to be slipping away from Uchijima in the second set, but the Japanese star’s baseline resilience became the defining factor. She began to find deeper angles, moving Sherif, who had survived a three-set battle against Amarissa Toth earlier in the tournament, out of her comfort zone.

Uchijima snatched the second set 7-5 and maintained her composure in a physical decider, eventually breaking Sherif in the final game to seal her place in the final.

This victory sets up a high-stakes championship match against Ukraine’s Anhelina Kalinina. For Uchijima, the final represents a crucial opportunity to break back into the Top 100, while her performance this week underscores her status as one of the most dangerous competitors on the clay-court swing of the WTA 125 series