Enzo Maresca Thread

[OneMoSalah 8,883]

13 hours ago, YorkshireBlue said:

Which tells you in training things are not going well, if Enzos trusts Sanchez over the others they must be performing shit in training.

Well the Gk options aren’t particularly great are they? 

Our current number 1 was Brighton’s number 2/3 under de Zebri for like 12 months ago. For whatever the actual reasons were, was it his ability on the ball, making glaring mistakes or both etc… who knows but yeah.

Jorgensen well… whilst he doesn’t look like he will be a top top GK, for whatever reasons hasn’t been deemed less of a bombscare than Sanchez so that tells me more than enough of what Maresca thinks of him.

Who else have we got at the club? Bettinelli? Bergstrom? HG quota players.

Then Petrovic, Penders (not sure if hes been signed and loaned bk or agreed to sign in the summer), Kepa, Sharman-Lowe on loan…. in all honesty we would be better sticking Willy Caballero in goal for the rest of the season because the options are wank.

Edited January 27 by OneMoSalah

[YorkshireBlue 3,264]

44 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

Well the Gk options aren’t particularly great are they? 

Our current number 1 was Brighton’s number 2/3 under de Zebri for like 12 months ago. For whatever the actual reasons were, was it his ability on the ball, making glaring mistakes or both etc… who knows but yeah.

Jorgensen well… whilst he doesn’t look like he will be a top top GK, for whatever reasons hasn’t been deemed less of a bombscare than Sanchez so that tells me more than enough of what Maresca thinks of him.

Who else have we got at the club? Bettinelli? Bergstrom? HG quota players.

Then Petrovic, Penders (not sure if hes been signed and loaned bk or agreed to sign in the summer), Kepa, Sharman-Lowe on loan…. in all honesty we would be better sticking Willy Caballero in goal for the rest of the season because the options are wank.

I’d be down for that 😂

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10 hours ago, Reddish-Blue said:

Possibly but we've heard the complete opposite from previous managers as well, Conte said RLC was the best trainer but then he'd be sitting on the bench most of the time. 

At some point, he will have to turn to Jorgensen as there's only so many mistakes you can accept from Sanchez.   

It’s hard because Sanchez is actually a decent shot stopper, just has brains made of pea soup mush, where Jorgensen might be shit at shit stopping 😂 so maybe he sees the mistakes a lower chance to lose than some one that couldn’t make a save at aldi 

[Special Juan 28,088]

The keeper options aren't great because we have allowed it to be like that, simple as.

Del Boy and Rodney attitude has got us where we are now

[TheHulk 2,402]

17 hours ago, YorkshireBlue said:

Which tells you in training things are not going well, if Enzos trusts Sanchez over the others they must be performing shit in training.

Maresca prefered to sideline Chalobah and keep Disasi, preferred Gusto out of position than an actual LB, sounds like he is great at judging performances.

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7 hours ago, TheHulk said:

Maresca prefered to sideline Chalobah and keep Disasi, preferred Gusto out of position than an actual LB, sounds like he is great at judging performances.

Yea, I found that weird as well...like what type of message are you sending to players by telling Chalobah he's not required (and the same to Chilwell).....and then by January, you are asking Chalobah to come back and play a part in the 2nd half of the season.   

People moan about lack of depth yet we had Chilwell available at LB and we were watching Gusto at LB/Disasi at RB for some reason

This is nothing but forcing players out.  

[Special Juan 28,088]

See this is where my thinking differs...Maresca is a very switched on guy and knows his stuff, but if you take these examples of Disasi and Sanchez constantly playing, making mistakes and keep getting selected then for me it's Maresca not pulling the strings or making certain selections in the team. I honestly think the two muppets above him are dictating a lot of the selections, I actually don't think you can be that thick or naive to keep selecting utter shit without something going on behind the scenes that you can't or will never control.

I beleive Stewart and Winstanley are steering both selections and this club down the river

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28 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

See this is where my thinking differs...Maresca is a very switched on guy and knows his stuff, but if you take these examples of Disasi and Sanchez constantly playing, making mistakes and keep getting selected then for me it's Maresca not pulling the strings or making certain selections in the team

He's basically had a season and a bit of senior coaching experience (Parma and then Leicester in the championship). Leading City's development side with a bunch of talented youngsters at his disposal doesn't count. 

I can see why he maybe doesn't have the guts to 'drop' players like previous managers.   Conte/Mou/Tuchel would have killed this current team with this pathetic attitude.  

[robsblubot 3,595]

That he's inexperience is written on his resume. And the club hired him after reading it.

As usual fans tend to overvalued their players, after all they become Chelsea players once they wear blue.

When Chalobah (our best right cb imo) wasn't playing for us where was he? PSG? nope. Take Liverpool side for a second: how many of our players would start for them? displace their starters? Afraid not many would sit on their bench.

I don't think Arsenal would be much different esp because they have the same weaknesses in centre forward. Go lower in the standings, and we start to get competitive, but I think the question isn't then if our players are as good as, but whether they are significantly better and give us a competitive advantage or not. There are no qualifiers here, btw. "He's young and will develop" does not matter one bit.

Now, could this team fight for CL? I believe it could, as it did at some point. I think the question is to explain the very obvious drop in form, not to mention fitness, that has taken place. Players are running a lot less, playing with less energy, and intensity.

Now that said inexperienced manager is incapable of leading an unbalanced roster into CL in his first term (remember Arteta?) shouldn't really be a surprise to us, or the owners who hired him knowing exactly who he was.

If the club sacks him this season, that will only show the exact value of the so called (long-term) project they've got.

 

[OneMoSalah 8,883]

12 hours ago, Special Juan said:

See this is where my thinking differs...Maresca is a very switched on guy and knows his stuff, but if you take these examples of Disasi and Sanchez constantly playing, making mistakes and keep getting selected then for me it's Maresca not pulling the strings or making certain selections in the team. I honestly think the two muppets above him are dictating a lot of the selections, I actually don't think you can be that thick or naive to keep selecting utter shit without something going on behind the scenes that you can't or will never control.

I beleive Stewart and Winstanley are steering both selections and this club down the river

Nah I don’t think the two of them have the brains to pick a team consisting of 11 players. They are muppets. They and Clearlake really have set this club back a good couple of years on the pitch anyway.

Every manager seems to have these sort of 1 or 2 guys though where you ask why they the fuck are playing them regularly despite poor games/mistakes/missed chances costing us points. 

Disasi was usually always in with Poch last season despite being a mixed bag. Been Sanchez and Jackson with Enzo this year. Mourinho with Ivanovic when he was utter dog and dropped off big style. Tuchel with Werner & Havertz. Conte with Morata, Bakayoko….

Edited January 28 by OneMoSalah

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On 25/01/2025 at 22:11, Mhsc said:

We would be relegated with Lampard, come on man, he's not ready for PL and may never be.

I know and I don't want him either.

I am talking purely from the owner's POV because it seems that's what what they want.

[Mário César 1,231]

at least today he made changes early