For three years Dennis Wise was happily working away from the spotlight.
Given a clean slate to build a club, the former Chelsea captain was revelling in the freedom. He had elevated Como into Serie B and, gradually, plans were being put in place for the club to return to Italy’s top flight for the first time since 2003.
Then Cesc Fabregas arrived at the start of August and, overnight, there was global attention on Como for reasons beyond the lake and George Clooney’s villa. “I don’t want the attention,” Wise says. “But unfortunately there’s a stage where you need to go with the flow. I still try to stay away from it. It’s not about me, it’s about the club. I’m not interested in that. I don’t want the interest.”
