City have confirmed the coaching staff who will support Enzo Maresca through his first season at the Etihad, with a familiar face returning to the club as part of a significant backroom overhaul.
Roberto Vitiello joins as assistant manager, a role that continues a partnership with Maresca stretching back to their playing days together at Palermo. Vitiello has worked alongside Maresca through spells at Parma, Leicester and Chelsea, and represents the closest thing City have to a direct extension of the new manager’s thinking on the training ground.
Keepers’ reunion
The headline appointment is Willy Caballero’s return as a first-team coach. The Argentinian spent three years at City between 2014 and 2017, best remembered for his penalty shootout heroics in the 2016 League Cup final win over Liverpool, and has worked in Maresca’s coaching setup at both Leicester and Chelsea since retiring as a player.
Danny Walker also returns, having come through City’s academy before following Maresca to both of those clubs.
The rest of the new-look staff features Michele De Bernardin as head of goalkeeping, Marcos Alvarez as fitness coach, Denis Silva as a further first-team coach, and Javier Molina as analyst.
Set-piece coach James French and goalkeeping coach Richard Wright continue in their existing roles from last season, offering some continuity as Maresca settles in.
It’s a staff built almost entirely around trust and shared history rather than new and untested recruitment — Maresca surrounding himself, right down to the club’s summer rebuild, with people who already know how he wants to work.
