Enzo Maresca is emerging as the No 1 target for Chelsea after the club’s ownership requested official permission to speak to the Italian. Maresca is close to leaving Championship title winners Leicester City to take over at Stamford Bridge with negotiations now at an advanced stage. Chelsea will have to pay around £10m in compensation to land the Italian, but he is now the preferred candidate ahead of Roberto De Zerbi and Brentford’s Thomas Frank. Kieran McKenna, the Ipswich Town manager, decide
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Southampton are in talks with Adam Lallana over a stunning return to the club following Premier League promotion and becoming their first arrival of the summer a decade after leaving St Mary’s.