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Read that he also said McKenna wants Chelsea, and he's in the running. Chelsea's search so far is almost as hapless as ours when we replaced Rodgers.

Re. adapting better, Justin in the Athletic talks about how he is looking to involve the full backs differently: “In the 10 months since we started, I’ve learned a lot about what we can do, and the manager has more ideas about how we can play that involve full-backs as well. Hopefully, in the next pre-season, we can see some of those, but if not then I’m happy.” Leicester fans may wonder how Maresca’s approach will play out in the Premier League, but Justin believes there is much more to come from the coach and his squad. “I think they (Maresca and his coaching staff) are amazing,” he says. “They know so much about the game. I was in my mid-twenties and I thought I knew about football before he came. “It turns out I knew the tip of the iceberg and he’s got a lot of ideas and a lot of things that he wants to play with. His staff echo him and they all flow in one way together. They also have different ideas themselves. “We practise a lot of things and there are a lot of things that people haven’t seen yet as well. It will be exciting to see next season.”

He's got more annoying. Thought it was out of order yesterday that after Atalanta's win yesterday he was tweeting about one of their players leaving the club. But it's the modern way, and the majority of fans (especially if you include those outside of the UK), primarily care about the top 6. He knows what works for his audience and engagement, and he's good at it. And no one has better links than him on breaking transfer news.

The thing is if Enzo does go, the sensible choice would be to bring in a manager with a similar playing system. Otherwise it's another huge transformation as per @StriderHiryu's post. So those who don't like the style now, be prepared for more of it either way. But knowing our board and their planning, we'll end up with a long ball specialist!

It's wild, he was their 5th or 6th choice. They really bungled their management search.

Exactly! 😀

Atalanta have been heavily linked with him. Given their success, you'd expect him to go there if they follow up on their interest.

Gasperini is having a big influence as well. Motta was one of his proteges, who's now getting the Juventus job off the back of his success at Bologna. https://onefootball.com/en/news/gasperini-and-atalanta-inspiring-the-future-of-italian-football-39470132 I think Ferguson was more about motivation/leadership rather than tactics and coaching, so you're saw fewer of his players being successful.

Kompany getting the Bayern job. The success of Guardiola and his understudy Arteta are making his other acolytes high in demand. Even Xabi Alonso was coached by Guardiola.

Romano said £7/8 million

Give it a rest mate.

Feels like Chelsea have looked at the job Arteta has done at Arsenal and decided they want another Guardiola influenced manager who was his former assistant. Remember Arteta didn't have proper managerial experience before Arsenal either.

He was right about us wanting Gonzalez, he didn't say the deal was sorted. We agreed terms with the player, Fiorentina didn't want to sell. Re. Sensi, he got that wrong but the deal very nearly did happen. He's far more right than wrong.

Spot on. Appreciate the media support around Maresca might rub certain people up the wrong way (looking at you @Chocolate Teapot) but you can't argue against the facts and what the players have said about him.

You'd think that they might start realising how good he is given how well he is regarded by the players, winning the league and how he's getting interest from clubs like Sevilla, Porto and potentially Chelsea.

The reported fee is ridiculous!

Thomas Frank mentioned here:

It will be interesting to see how he gets on. He was there before on a season-long loan and it didn't work out. Is he better being a big fish in a small pond/a club where there's less pressure? Clear he's got the talent, the consistency has been the issue.

That’s not what I took from it at all. I think the points on them not challenging Guillem enough (they joke at the start about being scared of him), especially about that bad run, and not picking up on Burnley’s spending are fair. But the general view I took is the players love working with Enzo, he has high standards, he felt let down by the comms over finances and wants changes in the office roles to help make sure we’re not a yo-yo club but an established PL club. What’s wrong with that?

Tell me the bit about talking the club down? The time where they discuss the office roles at Leicester? Have you not read that we’re in FFP trouble? Do you not also want changes to the back room team that didn’t do enough to stop us from getting relegated? Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t Balague say Leicester should be a PL club given the fan base, history and training ground? That doesn’t sound to me like talking the club down?

De Zerbi and Enzo are reported to know each other well. So would be surprised Enzo going there given De Zerbi has left seemingly because he’s not happy with the club’s ambitions/regime.