Gvardiol and Semenyo hail Maresca's 'new ideas'

New manager Enzo Maresca is a "perfect one" for Manchester City, says defender Josko Gvardiol. The 46-year-old took charge of City for the first time in Saturday's friendly defeat on penalties by Inter Milan in Hong Kong. "The level is that high and he has been chosen with reason as the manager," said Gvardiol. "I think he has a quality, has some new ideas and also we need to see what we are going to do [with] the style of [play], the football we are going to play and the tactics. "I think he is a perfect one, but of course, it takes time. It's something totally new, it's not easy to change the manager, so we will take time. "It's our job to help him as much as possible and also to listen to try to adapt as quick as possible. "I met him, we spoke a little bit about my injury [and] also how we played, how I played before with Pep, and that's it, more or less." [Getty Images] Gvardiol was not the only City star to praise the new boss. Antoine Semenyo hailed Maresca's style of play as "music to my ears" after showcasing early signs of his role under the Italian. "When he got appointed, that was the first thing I thought about because when you've played Chelsea previously when he was there, his wide men were always high and quite free," said the winger. "So that was one of the things that excited me the most when he got appointed and it's exciting for me as a winger. I get to have one-v-one situations most of the game and I am looking forward to it. "I have had individual meetings with him on how he wants to set up, how he wants to play his wide men and just overall as a team. "I think his ideas are great, quite similar to Pep, but if you watched the [Inter] game, you would have seen a couple of his ideas play out and it was good. Enzo is just [stay] out wide and when you get the ball, just create opportunities. So it is music to my ears."