Pricey Enzo Maresca,
Please STOP making enemies with the Chelsea fan base. Please STOP selecting fights with us. This may solely ever finish in a technique.
The most important problem at Chelsea proper now’s that this squad his been constructed with out steadiness, with out leaders, with out gamers with sturdy mentalities, and with out high quality expertise. It’s that straightforward. 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 power 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 aspect, 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 folks attempt 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 need to spin it, Maresca is blaming the followers right here for Ipswich’s second aim…
“I believe we misplaced a bit little bit of confidence, as a result of we conceded, most likely due to the setting,” 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 staff that more often than not, our aim kick will begin from taking part in brief.
“The second aim, we determine to play lengthy, as a result of the setting is there, and we concede the second. You must be sturdy, it’s important to proceed with the issues that you’re doing.”
The reporter then stated:
‘I simply wished to ask you about that, particularly with the second aim, as a result of it felt like after the primary aim went in, the group, the environment, every thing 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 wished to see?’
Maresca responded:
“No, it’s only for positive not, however I can perceive, as a result of most likely we conceded the aim, and so they 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 when it comes to followers, I stated many instances, we’re stronger with our followers, we’re a greater staff. It’s as much as them to determine the best way. For positive at present, most likely, with the 0-1, 0-2, it’s regular to be the best way they had been.”
The reporter then circled again to the identical query afterward:
Why do you assume that the setting, as you say, has change into a difficulty right here?
Maresca answered:
“I didn’t say that the setting is a matter for us, as a result of I at all times stated that with our followers, with us, we’re a greater staff. They’ve been there all season, all the best way. For positive at present, within the second that we’re in a tough second, you possibly can count on them that they aren’t blissful, however in the identical second, most likely 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 most likely want extra help.”
Grasp on, did you simply say ‘I didn’t say that the setting is a matter for us’?
Wait, you probably did mate, you undoubtedly did…
Simply above, he stated: ‘We misplaced a bit little bit of confidence, as a result of we conceded, most likely due to the setting.’
After which in the identical sentence, he additionally stated: ‘The second aim, we determine to play lengthy, as a result of the setting 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 manner of taking part in and also you consider in it, then you definitely play that manner regardless of what anybody else says. Are you going to start out blaming pundits for criticising the gamers as effectively and use them as a purpose that they don’t play the way you inform them to play? Come on, man.
Simply please cease this nonsense. I wished, and nonetheless do need Maresca to work, purely as a result of I don’t need to preserve seeing managers coming and going, however he’s actually not serving to himself within the slightest.
His soccer has typically been far too gradual, 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 at all times return to the primary half of the season when our soccer regarded good and we had been getting outcomes. However please, for anybody who needs to spotlight this time as a ‘oh we had been all praising Maresca then and saying our Chelsea are again’ please go and watch the video games once more. Chelsea had been taking part in way more open, way more in transition, and the video games had been way 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 bear 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 assume he’s a greater supervisor than Maresca or every other daft feedback somebody needs to attempt to make right here, however you can not deny that our type of play again then was extra Pochettino than Maresca, as a result of it was. Since we now have been taking part in 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, most likely all the above I’d reply sure to, to offer him the advantage of the doubt, for positive. Possibly if he had a prime striker within the field and some extra gamers in to play his manner then we’d be succeeding now, completely.
However on the finish of the day, he’s the pinnacle coach of Chelsea Soccer Membership, he knew what he was taking over, he knew the strain can be there from a fan base who’re primarily used to latest 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 should fall on the pinnacle coach if he isn’t getting outcomes. It has to. That’s his job, to teach the gamers and get the perfect out of them. He’s had a lot 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 selecting fights with followers, it actually isn’t a very good look and can flip even the most important Maresca followers towards him ultimately. 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 principle issues are above him and that’s the place our focus needs to be. However Maresca must cease pulling that focus again in the direction of him.
Lastly, our man Danny Windsor observed one thing that he posted on X final evening…
He stated:
‘Anybody who’s Maresca in nonetheless.
‘17 factors in 14 for Potter, 20 in 16 for Maresca.
‘Potter had worse to cope with each accidents and modifications on the membership and obtained us by way of within the CL knockouts.
‘Potter was knocked out of cups by Metropolis.’
