Enzo Maresca Thread

[Special Juan 27,567]

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

[Reddish-Blue 2,406]

 

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 8,814]

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 1,050]

at least today he made changes early

[Vytis33 1,175]

These statements from Maresca are demoralizing.  The real goal is Champions League placement next year?  What a message to send to the team 

[DDA 9,746]

3 hours ago, Vytis33 said:

These statements from Maresca are demoralizing.  The real goal is Champions League placement next year?  What a message to send to the team 

It’s outrageous but honestly, it’s not his fault. It’s the owners feeding him this bullshit.

[Special Juan 27,567]

I feel for him because he is being led by idiots above him that are acting like a father to a child...."hey hey look what I bought for you isn't it nice"

He is going through what every other manager has done and will continue to do. They put stuff on his plate and forced to eat it.

[ZAPHOD2319 4,564]

 

[Fernando 6,506]

Yup that is the right way. 

I think the winter window they didn't address much the team because it can be hard. Just wing it with what we have and in the summer we can get some improvement especially with some manager stability. 

Because I always said we fire this guy and new guy wants to try his guy. We waste so much time like that. With Maresca now one year we can improve this summer. 

[Strike 7,305]

If Maresca can be switched on and somehow get the attack working - we have Lavia coming back and I'm counting on less mistakes from the GK going forward. But that attack has look lost for two months now other than brief spells at the start of games. 

[ZAPHOD2319 4,564]

32 minutes ago, Strike said:

If Maresca can be switched on and somehow get the attack working - we have Lavia coming back and I'm counting on less mistakes from the GK going forward. But that attack has look lost for two months now other than brief spells at the start of games. 

The attack was much more direct when we had the numbers on a break leading up to December. Since the break, they have the numbers and yet, they hold up the ball for everyone, including the opponents defense to get up field. It has to be a directive to do this, which is killing our attack.

[Reddish-Blue 2,406]

7 hours ago, Strike said:

But that attack has look lost for two months now other than brief spells at the start of games. 

Thats what happens when you count on half-shift players like Madueke, Sancho to lead the attack.   United were delighted to get rid of Sancho and we happily accepted him?    

8 hours ago, Fernando said:

We waste so much time like that. With Maresca now one year we can improve this summer. 

If Maresca is here next season, we won't be a top 4 side and eventually Palmer will get bored and ask to leave to play CL football like his England national team mates and we'll go back to hovering around 6th place again.  

[Vesper 29,256]

7 hours ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

The attack was much more direct when we had the numbers on a break leading up to December. Since the break, they have the numbers and yet, they hold up the ball for everyone, including the opponents defense to get up field. It has to be a directive to do this, which is killing our attack.

it is madness how much we are regressed in attack

and that, in turn, had exposed our shite defence

it all truly started with that shit draw at Everton (the game where he could have went top if we had won) on December 22, 2024

[Laylabelle 9,418]

9 minutes ago, Vesper said:

it is madness how much we are regressed in attack

and that, in turn, had exposed our shite defence

it all truly started with that shit draw at Everton (the game where he could have went top if we had won) on December 22, 2024

That's what did it!! Since then we won two league games! 

Just think part of me is yeah sack away..the other is what's the point. Same results last season..same results before that etc. We're not a competing club anymore. Can't even win the finals we get to...

[Blue Armour 4,341]

12 hours ago, Fernando said:

Yup that is the right way. 

I think the winter window they didn't address much the team because it can be hard. Just wing it with what we have and in the summer we can get some improvement especially with some manager stability. 

Because I always said we fire this guy and new guy wants to try his guy. We waste so much time like that. With Maresca now one year we can improve this summer. 

That might be what you want 

But knowing the track record of these owners, Maresca will be in real danger if the club finishes outside of top 6 this year.

[bigbluewillie 1,877]

17 hours ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

 

That comment is usually the kiss of death