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Enzo Maresca New Leicester Manager

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KingsX

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2 hours ago, Chelmofox said:

The previous person was one of the highest paid managers in the league with years of experience managing top tier sides. Sadler admitted before the Villa game that they only had time for one training session with the team.  

 

Yeah, that was a MASSIVE fail by the board, not something to lay at the coaches' feet.  Complacency and stupidity bound up in a single decision.  Which cost them a hundred million or more, so let's hope something was learned ...

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Dan LCFC

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16 hours ago, Babylon said:

They aren't anywhere close to being first team managers, they got promoted above their station for a couple of games. Judging them on something that's not actually their day to day job is a bit off, imagine that in your own workplace. 

 

Boss: "Hi Ted, could you paint that wall"

Ted: "I'm not a painter"

Boss: "Give it a go anyway, no pressure"

Ted: "I've finished"

Boss: "You're sacked on the basis of your poor painting"

Ted: "But I'm an accountant?"

Boss: "Tough, I've seen enough of your painting ability to know you can't do my books". 

That analogy doesn't really work because their jobs are in a similar line to the ones they stood in for. They're not accountants in this instance, it would be being asked to paint the wall green then splodging it with a load of yellow and pink. Anybody on here who posted that XI before Bournemouth would've been laughed out of the thread. I'm not strongly for or against them but the Bournemouth XI was a major red flag, it was absolute lunacy.

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14 hours ago, Foxeswilow said:

Just hope we give him sometime .. i

have feeling we might start slow and pick it up

towards the end. 

Patience is key with the new manager. 
 

we need 25-30k supporting the team at the king power regularly. 

If we have a slow start he'll be gone by November and I wouldn't be totally surprised if the club have another name pencilled in just in case.

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1 hour ago, iancognito said:

If we have a slow start he'll be gone by November and I wouldn't be totally surprised if the club have another name pencilled in just in case.

To "Gone til November" by Wyclef Jean

 

Gone in November, he'll be gone in November

Enzo Maresca, he'll be gone in November

 

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15 hours ago, Foxeswilow said:

Just hope we give him sometime .. i

have feeling we might start slow and pick it up

towards the end. 

Patience is key with the new manager. 
 

we need 25-30k supporting the team at the king power regularly. 

Yes it could take some time to turn the piece of shite we've become around 

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2 hours ago, Dan LCFC said:

That analogy doesn't really work because their jobs are in a similar line to the ones they stood in for. They're not accountants in this instance, it would be being asked to paint the wall green then splodging it with a load of yellow and pink. Anybody on here who posted that XI before Bournemouth would've been laughed out of the thread. I'm not strongly for or against them but the Bournemouth XI was a major red flag, it was absolute lunacy.

Oh you missed the fact it’s embellished for comedic effect. Fact it, it still isn’t their job and has zero impact on the day to day duties of a ****ing goalkeeping coach. 

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1 hour ago, iancognito said:

If we have a slow start he'll be gone by November and I wouldn't be totally surprised if the club have another name pencilled in just in case.

I wouldn’t be so sure given they seemingly didn’t do any prep for what would happen post Rodgers and they dragged their heels appointing Smiffy’s successor.

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17 hours ago, FoxinNotts said:

to the tune of 'We buy any car':

 

Enzo MA-RE-SCA!

He just loves Leice-ster!

Enzo MA-RE-SCA!

He just loves Leice-ster!

Enzo MA-RE-SCA!

He just loves Leice-ster!

...........

That’s just about the worst effort on here I’ve ever seen 👏👏well done

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ClaphamFox

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3 minutes ago, lcfc sheff said:

Can’t get it out my head tbh 🤣

Actually that's not a bad shout:

 

We just wanna get out of this league
Getting promoted is all we think about
We just need to get out of this league
Enzo's gonna do it without a doubt

 

La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2023/06/21/enzo-maresca-interview-why-i-quit-man-city-for-leicester/
 

Enzo Maresca interview: Why I quit Man City for Leicester

 

Enzo Maresca wants Jamie Vardy to stay at Leicester and spearhead the club’s attempt to return to the Premier League.

 

In his first interview since being appointed Leicester manager, Maresca has spelled out his plan for the relegated club and told how they convinced him to take the job in the middle of Manchester City’s wild treble celebrations.

 

The Italian, a City coach last season, also paid tribute to “genius” Pep Guardiola.

 

But it is the clarity on the future of Vardy, the 36-year-old striker who scored just three league goals last season, which is likely to make waves among Leicester fans.

 

“He’ll be staying with us yes,” Maresca told Telegraph Sport. “That’s what we’re currently doing, looking at the squad and planning for next season.”

 

That it is Maresca making those plans has raised eyebrows. A key member of Guardiola’s coaching staff, he was last seen in those heady days after City won the Champions League final, embracing Jack Grealish on the flight home.

 

Now, his next act in football will be to take his place in the away dugout in a pre-season friendly at Northampton Town.

 

Maresca, though, is adamant that the Championship is not a step down - not when he is fulfilling his ambition of becoming a manager. “It’s what I’ve always wanted to do,” he says.

 

He may not yet be a household name, but Maresca has served his time. An assistant to Manuel Pellegrini at West Ham, he worked with City youth teams before a spell at Parma.

 

Last season, Guardiola head-hunted him for a first-team job, which Maresca accepted — with a caveat. “From the very first moment Pep knew that I really wanted to go on to be a manager,” Maresca says. “He knew that I think he is the best coach in the world and that I went there to help and work with him. But he always encouraged me to keep progressing.”

 

His promotion may have even come sooner, had Leicester got their way. Following the dismissal of Brendan Rodgers, an approach was made to prise him out of the Etihad. But with the treble on the line, Maresca made them wait.

 

“We were involved in playing so many games in all the different competitions,” he adds. “I left everything to one side until after the Champions League final.”

 

Then relegation followed, Dean Smith departed and the job became vacant again. This time, as Maresca celebrated City’s Istanbul triumph, he was in no mood to hang around.

 

The reality for Maresca, though, is this: he is inheriting a Leicester side that has been in steady decline for several years. In Youri Tielemans, they have lost one of their best players and are highly likely to see James Maddison and Harvey Barnes follow him out of the club.

 

This is not a straightforward rebuild, particularly for a rookie — even for a man with a CV as impressive as Maresca. Given the upheaval, can Leicester really bounce back at the first time of asking? “Yes, it’s the one and only objective,” Maresca insists. “While being aware that we have to change a lot of players, a lot of whom have been very key players while representing the club in recent times.

 

“First and foremost, we have to try and build and put together a good team and from then on, we can see how much we can achieve with it.”

 

Maresca is an exciting appointment, in part because he has studied under Guardiola, the man who has shaped modern English football more than anybody — an apprenticeship that he calls “a continuous learning process, every single day”.

 

And even though Maresca tries to play down how feasible it is that Leicester will copy the City model lock, stock and barrel — “it is impossible because first of all, City have got Pep, and no-one has a manager like him” — you feel that Enzo-ball will have more than a passing resemblance to the ideals impressed on him by Guardiola.

 

He talks about “playing well”, a phrase often used by Guardiola to describe not just beautiful but also functional football, and he subscribes to the Catalan’s beliefs on positional discipline.

 

“The most important thing at the beginning is to get the players to understand exactly where they need to be, the positions they need to take up on the pitch,” he says. “A lot of the time they don’t need to be moving around so much, and often it’s much more important to stay still in the same position than to be running around so much.

 

“And this is something that you need to put in place because it’s not so easy.”

 

As a former City youth coach, Maresca also comes with an impressive contacts book and is likely to be front of the queue when it comes to loan deals for the next generation of talent. “One or two of them would do us nicely!” he laughs.

 

“City really do have a lot of young players that I know very well, having worked with them at under-23 level and coached there this season. Top quality players, but it wouldn’t be right to mention any names just at the moment because the lads will be away on holiday and maybe thinking about what’s next for them.”

 

Conversation leads back to the treble, as it inevitably will for the first of Guardiola’s Class of ’23 to strike off and try his luck somewhere else.

 

You may have seen that picture of Grealish, whose celebrations captured public imagination more than anybody, gleefully hugging Maresca.

 

This is a man who had a front row seat to the biggest celebration seen in English football for years. “We were partying for a few days,” Maresca reveals. Which means… you kept pace with Jack Grealish? “I wouldn’t be able to do that! I don’t have as much staying power as that!”

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19 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

“A lot of the time they don’t need to be moving around so much, and often it’s much more important to stay still in the same position than to be running around so much.

I don’t know but this just sounds like it’s going to be a walking mans version of Man City but it’ll be like when they’re dull to watch and just passing for passing sake as we won’t have the players to make the difference that they do

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