Maresca leaves confirmed

[KFS]

2 hours ago, urban.spaceman said:

He... He was a blue before lads.

They did this with Chilwell too. ****ing hope we stick it to them at least once next season.

 

i will personally pay for a ‘He’s a blue now’ banner in the stands @Union FS

[Kienan dewsbury croc]

Can we also tell John rudkin. To piss off 😅

[Trent Steel]

7 hours ago, Zear0 said:

Give him until Christmas.

This. 

 

Chelsea is just as rotten as manure

[Trent Steel]

42 minutes ago, Weller Wing said:

I'm not ' I want Enzo to fail'

But I totally hate Chelsea and everything about them.

 

Some of their fans are OK but I want Chelsea ,the club, to fall flat on their arrogant faces.

 

So him being their manager makes me want him to fail just because he'll be managing that despicable club.

 

 

Fair play i am the same

[hebangsthedrums]

5 hours ago, Corky said:

I like the bloke and he did the job required. If he wanted to go, and the compensation was fair, then best to move on.

 

The club can do one, their treatment of supporters had been dreadful so **** off with your lack of loyalty whines.

 

4 hours ago, Matt said:

Aggrieved about what exactly? He'd probably have left anyway but their running of the club gave him even more reason to - take those reasons away and maybe then they can be frustrated or aggrieved. 

 

He didn't jump at the first opportunity if it's true Sevilla were making eyes at him.

 

Get their house in order first. 

 

Become accountable for their actions, learn from mistakes, employ people who can do their jobs.

 

 

Agree with the sentiments here, club being very pious when they have no right to be.

Also its all very well mocking Chelsea for the 'chaos' of their finances, but they haven't actually failed FFP have they?

Our divs sorted that whilst not sacking people they should have

Wonder how much of his £5m a year Enzo is passing on to his tosspot spanish PR machine 

[Basildon Fox]

I don't know why the board are taking the flack they are getting on here.

 

The bloke is a weasel for jumping ship after 1 season. **** him and anybody else that goes with him. I support Leicester and not some bald Italian who imo is a bang average manager. 

 

The whole world knew we were financially on shit street. Why was he the only one not to know?

 

Onwards and upwards. 

[hebangsthedrums]

8 minutes ago, Basildon Fox said:

I don't know why the board are taking the flack they are getting on here.

 

The bloke is a weasel for jumping ship after 1 season. **** him and anybody else that goes with him. I support Leicester and not some bald Italian who imo is a bang average manager. 

 

The whole world knew we were financially on shit street. Why was he the only one not to know?

 

Onwards and upwards. 

It's got my goat as they are whining about loyalty when they've progressively been treating loyal fans more like cvnts each season.

 

[Aus Fox]

16 minutes ago, Basildon Fox said:

I don't know why the board are taking the flack they are getting on here.

 

The bloke is a weasel for jumping ship after 1 season. **** him and anybody else that goes with him. I support Leicester and not some bald Italian who imo is a bang average manager. 

 

The whole world knew we were financially on shit street. Why was he the only one not to know?

 

Onwards and upwards. 

Because he was lied to and misled by the board - not the first manager to come out and say this.

No matter what you think of Enzo or Rodgers they’ve both told a similar story and have been made to look like twats when they are negotiating with players, only to be told late on actually there is no money.

We’ve got a a massive issue at board level, and this will continue to happen to other managers unless something changes.

[Dan LCFC]

12 hours ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

IF it is the club feeding into that Percy articles then what the **** are they doing. 
 

“some players unmoved.”

 

”stubborn management that needed a senior player meeting to get us over the line.”

 

Than why before the Chelsea offer were we letting this guy dictate our entire philosophy with these sort of flaws.

Because they're generally clueless. I've a lot of criticisms of Maresca but I think he knows the score a bit more than they do even if he has done us over a bit here.

 

It does seem quite peculiar to me. Two narratives being played - one that we're not that impressed with his performance then another that we're not that impressed he's leaving  

[Winstonthedog]

7 hours ago, Bert said:

Wouldn’t be surprised if we’ve put in an agreement that they can’t sign any player from us for a year. 

Who would they want to sign ??

[CrazyKopCorner]

11 hours ago, Babylon said:

I can only presume you weren’t a fan when Nigel Pearson was here rocking size 13 mighty whites and telling people to FOAD, and strangling opponents. That my friend is the epitome of Alpha male cool. 

Also brooding in press conferences and telling journalist hacks they are stupid ostriches - god I miss Nigel 

[fox_favourite]

32 minutes ago, CrazyKopCorner said:

Also brooding in press conferences and telling journalist hacks they are stupid ostriches - god I miss Nigel 

When that happened, I remember smiling and thinking I love guy even more. I know some didn't like it, but the fact he just stuck it on them was excellent. That season he had every player playing for the badge, for him and you have to respect that whether you like him or not. 

 

Me, I'm with you. I miss the guy. Not that I want him back, we've moved on. 

[Sly]

1 hour ago, Winstonthedog said:

Who would they want to sign ??

Nelson is the one for me. 
 

I don’t think you’d want anyone else and I include Fatawu and Hermansen in that. 

[phoneticerror]

This has probably already been mentioned, but whoever runs our social media at the moment needs to stop acting like a 13 year old school girl. We look really petty and childish with the ‘vision’ reference to Enzo, as we did with the “I predict a riot” tweets. There is banter, and there is this. It isn’t a good look, and we’re coming across a bit immature.

[lcfcbluearmy]

16 hours ago, MPH said:

 

yeah I really don’t like this lack of professionalism from the club. It’s like they are trying to win some kind of propaganda war..

Because Enzo has been so proffedional about it all. No he told the club he was staying we changed plans because he wanted us to and now he has left us in a horrible position at short notice he deserves the bad press

[Claudio Fannieri]

Bit of a shit show all round, Maresca runs off at the earliest opportunity, whilst the club clearly have no desire to challenge themselves or look to shake things up, preferring to maintain the comfortable environment. 
 

in reality it’s highly likely that the status quo will maintain at the club and now Maresca has moved on, it will allow Rudkin and Top to continue relatively unchallenged. 

 

[Lcfc82]

1 hour ago, Sly said:

Nelson is the one for me. 
 

I don’t think you’d want anyone else and I include Fatawu and Hermansen in that. 

Maybe Alves ? 
 

They like hoarding young players.

[lcfcbluearmy]

16 hours ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

 

'A next step to the elite' - inside Maresca's move to Chelsea

 

 

 

It's official. Enzo Maresca is the new Chelsea manager.

 

Just weeks after guiding Leicester City back to the Premier League, the Italian has quit after one season and opted to take on what many see as a poisoned chalice.

 

The 44-year-old will become the fifth Blues boss since the start of 2022-23, and a seventh permanent boss in five years.

 

His predecessor Mauricio Pochettino lost his job - albeit by mutual consent - at the end of the season despite guiding Chelsea to sixth in the Premier League, back into European football and to a domestic cup final.

 

So, why has Maresca turned his back on the Foxes for a club who splashed an incredible £747m on transfers during the 2022-23 campaign and have lurched from crisis to crisis in the recent past?

Issues looming for the Foxes

As genuine as Maresca's joy was at taking Leicester City straight back to the top flight at the first time of asking, the euphoria created by promotion could not disguise the fact that not everything was well at the club.

 

Leicester's possible Financial Fair Play (FFP) issues were something he only became aware of after the season had started.

 

That, coupled with a highly unsatisfactory January transfer window involving two deals in particular, also created conflict at Leicester.

 

Cesare Casadei was very much part of Maresca's plans after signing on loan - coincidentally, from Chelsea - at the start of the season. Then Chelsea recalled him in the winter window.

 

Stefano Sensi, from Inter Milan, had come to the UK to help complete the deal once the two clubs had negotiated a fee for the player. Suddenly everything fell apart over concerns surrounding the club's FFP standing.

 

Maresca kept his counsel and soldiered on but to say he was unimpressed on both occasions would be an understatement.

 

But to say that disillusionment with the club is the defining reason for his swapping the blue of Leicester to that of Chelsea is wide of the mark.

Aiming for a top-four finish

The reality is that when you receive offers from two former Champions League-winning sides - Chelsea and Porto - your profile in a competitive market becomes clear. And it is clear too why Maresca has been chosen to make improvements at a potentially top club like Chelsea.

 

That is probably being a bit unfair to Pochettino, because he has left the club in a considerably better, far more stable place than he found it 12 months ago.

 

Pochettino, though, is the type of coach who has to believe he is in the right place, where he feels respected as he co-exists in an atmosphere of happiness and harmony - and he felt none of those things at Stamford Bridge.

 

Ironically, Maresca is also that kind of manager, someone who needs to feel empathy and the understanding of his paymasters.

 

Bearing that in mind, his main worry about accepting the job will be taking on board Pochettino's reasons for leaving, namely the excessive interference and influence exerted by the owners, which many believe hampers the work done by the coaches.

 

He could have called Pochettino to ask for his input.

 

But Maresca has been told the right things, sent the right messages and been reassured that at Chelsea he will be supported and surrounded by enough elite people that can work alongside him, to guarantee the club can achieve their first major aim of a top-four finish.

What will he find at Chelsea?

He will find a young team, one disappointed with the departure of Pochettino, who many felt was just starting to get it right.

 

But he shouldn't have too much of a problem selling his type of game to his new players, a style which isn't dissimilar from Pochettino's: high tempo, pressure high up the pitch, possession.

 

This time - with the greatest respect to the Leicester squad - he will be able to apply it with players better than the ones he had at King Power Stadium.

 

To do that, he will have to stamp his authority and continue the progress in the culture of the club started by Pochettino, not just within the camp but also with everyone around it as well, very much like he did at Leicester.

 

Maresca won't initially be looking for a club that wins absolutely everything but rather one that gives him stability and allows him to put his ideology into practice.

 

For the majority of Leicester fans, there will be disappointment.

 

But Maresca, despite the title-winning euphoria, always believed the main aim for this Leicester side in the coming season would be avoiding relegation.

 

The Chelsea fans will take to him and to his style of play. They will find him an interesting guy, a man of depth who might come over a little reserved at the beginning but who will soon convince the fans.

 

His wife Maria and their four children will be happy to be staying in England, although they would have preferred to remain in Leicester, where they have settled very well.

 

When offers like this come in, though, they also know that they can't really be turned down.

 

Ultimately, his decision to leave Leicester has nothing to do with the negativity he received from some of the fans in the past about the style of football.

 

Rather, it is because a club of a higher calibre has given him the chance to get close to the elite - where he belonged as a player and to where he quite rightly aspires to be as a coach.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cv22ed022j5o

 

 

Why is he trying to blame a player bring recalled by his parent club on leicester like there was anything we could do about it?

[Terraloon]

12 hours ago, Itsthejoeker said:

Apart from McKenna?

The reports suggest that it was Chelsea made the decision on that one not Mc Kenna

 

https://www.football365.com/news/chelsea-final-decision-mckenna-ipswich-maresca-frank-pochettino

 

[lcfcbluearmy]

15 hours ago, MPH said:

 

 

Being honest,  no matter how much i like my boss, if someone offers to double/  triple my wages, i'll be off faster than the road runner.. Let's not kid ourselves, we'd drop him like a hot potato if it didn't work out..

Yes in most peoples cases I understand that but at the point when you are already earning £5 million a year, do you need more money?

[Terraloon]

7 minutes ago, lcfcbluearmy said:

Why is he trying to blame a player bring recalled by his parent club on leicester like there was anything we could do about it?

Chelsea recalling Casadei always surprised me. It seemed unusual to call a player back from what appeared to be a loan that had started slowly but was improving. Yes there was a collapse in the Coventry game from a winning position but the point being made I guess is that he had what was probably the case of a player that was debatably a starter stripped away and the club couldn’t/ wouldn’t facilitate a replacement 

 

Looking on transfer market it seems that Chelsea weren’t charging a loan fee 

 

[Terraloon]

16 minutes ago, lcfcbluearmy said:

Yes in most peoples cases I understand that but at the point when you are already earning £5 million a year, do you need more money?

 That number I take with a massive pinch of salt.

 

That would make him the 7th highest paid manager in English football which I doubt, with only the likes of City, Arsenal, Liverpool , Utd and Chelsea getting more. . It’s said that even Howe at Newcastle and the Aussie at Spurs don’t get more.

 

Having said all that if he got close to that number then the club deserves gets everything that’s coming to it.

 

Looking at the numbers I would very much doubt he was paid even half of that number 

[shen]

56 minutes ago, lcfcbluearmy said:

Why is he trying to blame a player bring recalled by his parent club on leicester like there was anything we could do about it?

I thought exactly the same. Even worse, the offender was the club he ended up joining. 

The only interpretation I have is that he was upset that his squad was weakened. Despite saving Casadei's wages for 6 months, we were unable to get a replacement - which to be fair is understandable.

So the two incidents are linked and ultimately pointed at the PSR issues which Maresca wasn't clearly briefed on.

[lcfc278]

Balague is one of the biggest brown nosers I've ever seen.

 

He will literally just write whatever just to try and fluff his mate Enzo - will be glad to see the back of this a**ehole.

[southfox66]

Can't say I'm that bothered I think his style was over complicated for Leicester. With the depth of our squad getting promoted shouldnt have ever been that difficult I even think if we'd kept Dean Smith we would have won the title by a bigger margin than we did. When we played the Enzo way even wins weren't that convincing and any big victory seem to be when the players ditched his system for a faster flowing forward system, hopefully are next manager is of that mindset