@TheScore Overall I generally agree with everything you’ve said above. We are our own worst enemies and create this miss ourselves. There should be no focus on Chelsea with the way Tottenham and Manchester United are playing and the results they are getting.
We are forth in the league, and as you say the joint 2nd best defence in the PL and 3rd highest goals. Yes this all very positive. As a fan base we’ve gone from believing, without real foundation, that we are real challenges off the Arsenal game to some of the comments subsequently giving the impression we were in the relegation zone.
Massive swings one way and the other. We all need to calm down and that includes the owners, sporting directors and the manager. This still has the potential for being a season of further growth and improvement. The grass is not always green at the other side of the fence so don’t go looking to ditch a manager but so far has shown progression, how old his hands up when he’s got it wrong and has improved players. That said he should keep his negative comment internal. In respect for the sporting directors, I accept they’ve not done what he’s asked, but that’s the instructions from on high. They have a vision, which most of us believe could be tweaked and improved upon, but they’re going to stick to it whether we like it or not.
Respectfully, I have to disagree. It's hard to give him credit for disagreeing with SDs at this point after he's been eating all of their shit regarding player selection and squad building for the best part of 18 months. If he wasn't willing to take this position in regard to the SDs he would never have got the job. From reports at the time it basically sounded like other more credible managers basically wouldn't accept being told who they're playing by two recruitment specialists from Brighton. So once again, it's hard to give him credit for taking this position now.
In terms of him being a Chelsea manager, I don't think he's ever fit the bill. His football is fearful and when executed as he wants seems to de-platform our best players. Our best moments under him have come when players have decided to ignore his instructions or when we abandoned what he's meant to be about and we go long and direct (like against PSG in the CWC).
When he speaks he's often come across as quite negative and defeatist, and basically doesn't have responses to recurring problems. At different times he's also set himself vaguely on edge against fans. Great Chelsea managers like Mourinho, Ancelotti, Conte, Tuchel, these were all either great communicators or had great relationships with fans; Maresca has neither.
For the life of me, I can't understand the will of a lot of Chelsea fans to try and cling so desperately onto him, and try and see read good things from what's going on in the club. I understand not wanting to change manager all the time, but surely when there's managers out there who are clearly a lot better and have achieved a lot more (than Maresca did before Chelsea), we should be looking elsewhere? Most clubs don't have managers who stay more than 2-3 years and build dynasties, they're the exception.
This is bang on, we won’t get better than him. Look at spurs and united, we will be like them if we sack him
@TheScore Overall I generally agree with everything you’ve said above. We are our own worst enemies and create this miss ourselves. There should be no focus on Chelsea with the way Tottenham and Manchester United are playing and the results they are getting.
We are forth in the league, and as you say the joint 2nd best defence in the PL and 3rd highest goals. Yes this all very positive. As a fan base we’ve gone from believing, without real foundation, that we are real challenges off the Arsenal game to some of the comments subsequently giving the impression we were in the relegation zone.
Massive swings one way and the other. We all need to calm down and that includes the owners, sporting directors and the manager. This still has the potential for being a season of further growth and improvement. The grass is not always green at the other side of the fence so don’t go looking to ditch a manager but so far has shown progression, how old his hands up when he’s got it wrong and has improved players. That said he should keep his negative comment internal. In respect for the sporting directors, I accept they’ve not done what he’s asked, but that’s the instructions from on high. They have a vision, which most of us believe could be tweaked and improved upon, but they’re going to stick to it whether we like it or not.
Respectfully, I have to disagree. It's hard to give him credit for disagreeing with SDs at this point after he's been eating all of their shit regarding player selection and squad building for the best part of 18 months. If he wasn't willing to take this position in regard to the SDs he would never have got the job. From reports at the time it basically sounded like other more credible managers basically wouldn't accept being told who they're playing by two recruitment specialists from Brighton. So once again, it's hard to give him credit for taking this position now.
In terms of him being a Chelsea manager, I don't think he's ever fit the bill. His football is fearful and when executed as he wants seems to de-platform our best players. Our best moments under him have come when players have decided to ignore his instructions or when we abandoned what he's meant to be about and we go long and direct (like against PSG in the CWC).
When he speaks he's often come across as quite negative and defeatist, and basically doesn't have responses to recurring problems. At different times he's also set himself vaguely on edge against fans. Great Chelsea managers like Mourinho, Ancelotti, Conte, Tuchel, these were all either great communicators or had great relationships with fans; Maresca has neither.
For the life of me, I can't understand the will of a lot of Chelsea fans to try and cling so desperately onto him, and try and see read good things from what's going on in the club. I understand not wanting to change manager all the time, but surely when there's managers out there who are clearly a lot better and have achieved a lot more (than Maresca did before Chelsea), we should be looking elsewhere? Most clubs don't have managers who stay more than 2-3 years and build dynasties, they're the exception.
Spot on.
excellent points!