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We genuinely feel completely cooked as a club. When Rosenoir inevitably looks in way over his head and we finish midtable we’ll be right back to looking for a new manager in 6 months. If he even lasts that long. We’ll then look even more like a shit show for sacking the guy who we sacked the previous guy for within the span of a few months. Why not just fucking appoint a true interim now and then wait to see who is available and willing to come here once the season is over? Why jump to appoint a guy who nobody from the players to the supporters will respect? Feels like intentional sabotage of a great club.

Imagine what happens in the summer window when we’ll presumably be competing with loads of other big PL clubs for the same players. What player worth a damn is going to be swayed speaking to Liam fucking Rosenoir? Or for a club that could sack said manager in 6 months time? Or for a club that will pay you half of what you’d get at the other big boys?

May as well just stop with all the names. It’s Rosenoir. It probably has been their one and only candidate for a month once the Maresca noise started. Hell, it may have been their choice before they even appointed Maresca that Rosenoir would eventually become Chelsea manager. We could offer Klopp a £20m per season salary and he wouldn’t even pick up the phone. Someone like him (or any world class manager) wouldn’t touch this ownership/director model with a 50ft pole.

Does anyone honestly believe that Rosenoir will command any respect from the egos in our squad? Or have the autonomy to make big decisions about who to play? Let’s say for instance he doesn’t fancy Enzo Fernandez and drops him for Andrey Santos who performed so well for him last season will the owners who laid £105m for him allow that? No chance, imo.

Ornstein and others re-confirming that Maresca has been talking behind our backs to City several times recently. Incredibly unprofessional and disgraceful from him even when considering the clowns we have in charge.

It’s as good as confirmed. Every reliable person is saying it.

Liam fucking Rosenoir. I just cannot believe this. A manager who isn’t even lighting it up in a farmers league and who will surely need even longer than Maresca to wrap his head around PL football.

Supporters at the stadium need to make the directors’ positions untenable. Banners, booing them, incessant pressure for as long as it takes for them to be pushed out.

Whether it’s City or elsewhere Maresca will land at a great destination and probably go on to have a very good managerial career. He was set up for failure here but still didn’t make the best of what he was given and in the end was probably 1 more terrible result away from being sacked purely on footballing grounds anyways. I’m genuinely terrified of what depths our club will sink to in the immediate future if we actually appoint Rosenoir.

Hope Maresca reveals EVERYTHING to the media about what led to this. Tell us what’s going on with the directors etc so we know exactly where to direct our anger. If they try to play the “this was only about results on the pitch” card we know they’re lying.

It’s about style of play and extracting the maximum from what you’ve got. When I watch Iraola’s side play I’ve been very impressed. Likewise Marco Silva. They both get given very little in the market and in Iraola’s case his team was completely picked apart this past summer so I feel like it’s harsh to judge him based on this current run of form. Lost their captain, their two starting CB’s, their star LB (at the time) and have had a bunch of injuries. Look, I’m not saying he’s prime Mourinho or something but I’ve liked what I’ve seen. I wouldn’t be losing my head if we went for him like I will if they chose Rosenoir.

Iraola or Emery I’d take in a heartbeat. Glasner I’m not sure about. Marco Silva is an excellent coach but has that same sort of “takes no shit” personality that Maresca has and he’d probably clash with the board just like Enzo has eventually. I fucking love Conte and feel a hard man/authoritarian manager like him is exactly what this club needs. I’d take him back in an instant. But this board would never bring someone in who would call their shit out and drag them.

Four managers since these guys took over the club. The first one they ran out because he clashed with their “vision” and refused to fall in line with amateurs who knew nothing about football. They then spent an absurd amount of money to go raid Brighton for their top choice who lasted a blink of an eye because he was totally out of his depth. And next both Poch and now Maresca will both go because they fall out with the hierarchy. What a shambolic joke. And these are the same idiots that will be picking our next manager? Why are they not being sacked just like Maresca will be? Appointing the Strasbourg manager who no other club in the top half of the PL would even give a second look is criminal. We’re in this current mess in large part because the squad is so young and naive. So we may appoint a manager who has ZERO big club experience and will be under immense pressure from day 1? There needs to be massive protest by local supporters and boycotts if they do this shit. They’re running a massive club into the ground permanently.

Writing is on the wall judging by these latest reports from Ben Jacobs. I think he’s as good as gone. If we appoint Rosenoir this club is cooked for the foreseeable future. He’s a manager that a club like Palace or West Ham would take a punt on if their current ones leave. You don’t replace one manager who was new to handling a top PL club with someone else who is the same. If Maresca goes we HAVE to appoint an interim boss for the rest of the season and then assess our options come summer.

If I personally had to place blame it would be maybe 70% the owners/directors fault and 30% on Maresca. The recruitment by and large has been abysmal and the wage + age cap’s have severely affected said recruitment. They haven’t given Maresca the tools to compete with Arse/City etc like we should be doing. Even when he was asking publicly for a specific thing that we badly needed (a top CB) they ignore him. At the same time though, Maresca has not come close to maximizing the talent and squad we have. There is no way on Earth a squad with Reece James, Palmer, Caicedo, Estevão, Cucu, Enzo etc should be miles and miles behind Aston Villa, never mind the actual title contenders. It’s obvious that we severely lack quality in a couple of super key positions (striker & CB) but this is still a squad that should be comfortably finishing in the top 4 without much worry as is. That even 4th seems a super long shot at this point is unacceptable and insane and that’s why Maresca’s job is and SHOULD be under threat. If we get smoked and embarrassed by City this weekend I think he’s hanging on by a thread. One more poor result after that match and I think he’s gone.

We’re in a serious bind in that there isn’t anyone out there to replace him midseason who would turn things around in any meaningful way. So while I do believe it’s possible he goes I’m not sure it’ll do anything positive for us the rest of this season. It would surely be an interim coach because no top manager is out of work and no top manager who is currently employed would leave their club midseason to jump into this shit show. Could we see JT or Ashley Cole come in for a few months? Maybe. All I know is that of these clowns eventually appoint Rosenoir the fans will explode.

To watch as a club we used to clown on and dominate for like 15 years transform into the best side in Europe with a super bright future whilst we have simultaneously collapsed into mediocre nothingness is depressing. They’re top of the league, have a fantastic squad, fantastic structure above the players from the manager to the directors. And Arteta is talking about ADDING MORE quality to the team next month. Meanwhile, we are completely lost as a club and I don’t see any way for things to get better in the future. We’ve once again saddled ourselves with a load of players who are nowhere near good enough and how will we get rid of them? Who is going to want these guys? And how the hell can we trust these jokers in charge who signed Gittens, Garnacho, Delap, etc? Unlike in the past where we sacked a manager and either got a bounce or had something to look forward to, I don’t think sacking Maresca does anything for us. His replacement will likely be worse with these directors picking him. Short of the owners saying fuck it and doing away with their precious wage cap and age requirements I don’t see any optimism that things will change in the coming years.

Dead atmosphere in the ground, dead team on the pitch. All of this talent, all of the money spent and we look this dreadful. An 18 year old kid playing in a new league and new country looks our best player. We may tumble to midtable by the end of this weekend.

We can create a million chances but never look like actually finishing. This would be a terrible point if it stays like this. Bournemouth have offered next to nothing second half.

Estevão is insane in 1v1’s when he’s cooking like this.

There’s just a gaping chasm in the middle of the pitch. It’s like we have nobody there at all.

Palmer still looks rusty big time. His ability to effortlessly ghost past players is nowhere near where it was yet. Estevão looks far more threatening than he does so far.

Not without Caicedo we won’t.

This is as poor as I’ve ever seen a Chelsea side defensively. They’re playing through us like prime Barca. Imagine what City are going to do to us.

Literally what the FUCK is that from Chalobah? WTF