Expensive Enzo Maresca,
Please STOP making enemies with the Chelsea fan base. Please STOP choosing fights with us. This can solely ever finish in a technique.
The largest problem at Chelsea proper now could be that this squad his been constructed with out stability, with out leaders, with out gamers with sturdy mentalities, and with out high quality expertise. It’s that easy. I’ll die on that hill.
Enzo Maresca is a secondary drawback. The gamers are a secondary drawback.
However what Maresca is doing by making feedback like he made after the Ipswich recreation yesterday, is he’s switching fan focus and vitality onto himself much more, and that solely ever ends a technique.
I imply, you possibly can’t sack the followers, are you able to? , the paying followers who go to Stamford Bridge each week and journey to away video games each different? Those you want in your facet, proper? Followers worldwide as simply as vital, however the voices he’ll hear week in week out are those that go to matches. He NEEDS them.
I’ve seen individuals try to declare that Maresca’s phrases are taken out of context and I’m sorry however that’s determined straw clutching on the very least. Come on now.
Nonetheless you wish to spin it, Maresca is blaming the followers right here for Ipswich’s second aim…
“I feel we misplaced slightly little bit of confidence, as a result of we conceded, in all probability due to the atmosphere,” Maresca stated. “That is the second that it’s important to proceed doing the fitting issues and don’t change the plan. Additionally as a result of we’re a crew that more often than not, our aim kick will begin from enjoying brief.
“The second aim, we determine to play lengthy, as a result of the atmosphere is there, and we concede the second. It’s important to be sturdy, it’s important to proceed with the issues that you’re doing.”
The reporter then stated:
‘I simply needed to ask you about that, particularly with the second aim, as a result of it felt like after the primary aim went in, the gang, the environment, all the pieces modified. Is it a difficulty with the gamers and the way they responded to that? Would you like extra from the supporters in that second? You talked about additionally the aim kick. I presume that’s not one thing you needed to see?’
Maresca responded:
“No, it’s only for positive not, however I can perceive, as a result of in all probability we conceded the aim, they usually determined to play an extended ball. However generally, I stated many instances, generally you go lengthy, it doesn’t imply that you’re going to management one thing. The second aim we conceded is for that.
“After which by way of followers, I stated many instances, we’re stronger with our followers, we’re a greater crew. It’s as much as them to determine the best way. For positive at present, in all probability, with the 0-1, 0-2, it’s regular to be the best way they have been.”
The reporter then circled again to the identical query in a while:
Why do you suppose that the atmosphere, as you say, has change into a difficulty right here?
Maresca answered:
“I didn’t say that the atmosphere is a matter for us, as a result of I all the time stated that with our followers, with us, we’re a greater crew. They’ve been there all season, all the best way. For positive at present, within the second that we’re in a troublesome second, you possibly can count on them that they don’t seem to be glad, however in the identical second, in all probability it’s the second that we want the gamers, particularly the gamers which can be contained in the pitch, it’s the second that they in all probability want extra assist.”
Cling on, did you simply say ‘I didn’t say that the atmosphere is a matter for us’?
Wait, you probably did mate, you positively did…
Simply above, he stated: ‘We misplaced slightly little bit of confidence, as a result of we conceded, in all probability due to the atmosphere.’
After which in the identical sentence, he additionally stated: ‘The second aim, we determine to play lengthy, as a result of the atmosphere is there, and we concede the second.’
I’m completely baffled by this. Not good in any respect.
The followers don’t dictate the way you play. The followers didn’t power Robert Sanchez to kick it lengthy. When you’ve got a method of enjoying and also you imagine in it, then you definately play that method regardless of what anybody else says. Are you going to start out blaming pundits for criticising the gamers as nicely and use them as a motive that they don’t play the way you inform them to play? Come on, man.
Simply please cease this nonsense. I needed, and nonetheless do need Maresca to work, purely as a result of I don’t wish to preserve seeing managers coming and going, however he’s actually not serving to himself within the slightest.
His soccer has usually been far too sluggish, laboured, and bland. He’s getting his gamers to spam crosses towards low blocks with no one in there who is nice within the air to get on the tip of them. He’s discouraging individuality and aptitude, and you may argue that many gamers have really gotten worse since he got here right here – as a result of many even have.
I all the time return to the primary half of the season when our soccer appeared good and we have been getting outcomes. However please, for anybody who needs to focus on this time as a ‘oh we have been all praising Maresca then and saying our Chelsea are again’ please go and watch the video games once more. Chelsea have been enjoying far more open, far more in transition, and the video games have been far more finish to finish (I’m not saying that soccer was higher by the best way as a result of really it was very chaotic). I even keep in mind writing that on the time. If something, it was extra Mauricio Pochettino that Maresca. And no, I don’t need Pochettino again or suppose he’s a greater supervisor than Maresca or another daft feedback somebody needs to try to make right here, however you can’t deny that our type of play again then was extra Pochettino than Maresca, as a result of it was. Since we’ve been enjoying extra ‘Maresca-ball’ then the outcomes have dropped and our kind has been nothing in need of dire. Is that only a coincidence? Does he simply not have the gamers to play his type of soccer? Have the accidents had a extremely unhealthy impact? Or have the gamers simply not realized his methods but? what, in all probability the entire above I’d reply sure to, to provide him the advantage of the doubt, for positive. Perhaps if he had a high striker within the field and some extra gamers in to play his method then we’d be succeeding now, completely.
However on the finish of the day, he’s the top coach of Chelsea Soccer Membership, he knew what he was taking over, he knew the strain could be there from a fan base who’re primarily used to current success and used to sturdy mentalities and watching winners within the dugout and out on the pitch, he knew the gamers he had in his squad and on the finish of the day, it’s going to fall on the top coach if he isn’t getting outcomes. It has to. That’s his job, to educate the gamers and get the very best out of them. He’s had loads lengthy sufficient now to implement his system and no the followers aren’t those stopping that ‘system’.
And in amongst all of this he’s choosing fights with followers, it actually isn’t a superb look and can flip even the largest Maresca followers towards him finally. It already is, I’m seeing it.
I’m not shouting Maresca out and also you all know my causes for that. However I’ve so many issues with what I’m seeing proper now and I don’t see how we go ahead with him, I actually don’t.
Sure, I reiterate, the primary issues are above him and that’s the place our focus ought to be. However Maresca must cease pulling that focus again in the direction of him.
Lastly, our man Danny Windsor seen one thing that he posted on X final night time…
He stated:
‘Anybody who’s Maresca in nonetheless.
‘17 factors in 14 for Potter, 20 in 16 for Maresca.
‘Potter had worse to take care of each accidents and adjustments on the membership and obtained us via within the CL knockouts.
‘Potter was knocked out of cups by Metropolis.’
