Maresca’s Backroom Team Announced

[Daggers]

2 hours ago, South Shire Fox said:

Hopefully the 3 foreign chaps all speak fluent English to get the message across clearly. 

All you need is PowerPoint with some good sound effects

[brookfox]

Feel like we still need the “been there, done it, knows the Championship inside out” type assistant/coach. I’m sure the new guys are good at their jobs, but the Championship is almost a unique league with the competitiveness, number of games and what’s at stake. Just someone who can offer Enzo the advice when things go wrong or those tricky away games could make a real difference.

[coolhandfox]

21 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Neither did Kompany or Carrick tbf.

Kompany had managed 90+ games befor3 going Burnely.

 

Carrick is a good point.

[TrickyTrevLeftPeg]

27 minutes ago, Fightforever said:

Davies left us for Tottenham so that leaves us with currently:

 

Enzo Maresca - Manager

Roberto Vitiello - Assistant

Danny Walker - Coach

Michele De Bernardin - GK coach

Marcos Alvarez - Fitness

Javier Molina Caballero - Analyst

 

I would say we still need another coach but I am glad we have a designated fitness coach as our players were very unfit last year especially Tielemans. 

 

I also would like a set piece coach. Knudsen was actually good at set piece defence coaching. We conceded a lot less of them once he joined.

Tielemans is just unfit in general. He was never a box to box player. He was always blowing out of his backside after 50mins.

 

Also has Vitiello even been confirmed? I don't think he has.

 

I think we are still one or two short.

[Mendi]

[Foxin_Mad]

Looking at the details they seem to have experience at top European clubs, maybe tgst give the an edge. 

[Saxondale]

Welcome to our new back room team.

 

[Lillehamring]

2 hours ago, STUHILL said:

There is something quite comforting about having a Manager and backroom staff with experience, and this group are certainly on the low side of that! 

However, as we saw with Smith, Shaky and Terry, experience and knowing the league and club, often make no difference at all! 

The most important thing is, they are well organised and make the players work hard and buy into the message set by Enzo. 

Hopefully this further shows how impressive Enzo is in person, as this is a real jump into the unknown for Top!

I think it's more about the culture that's established around the players and staff - we saw that under pearson, ranieri, little and o'neill, even to a degree under BR when we had so many u23 lads in the first team - it feels like they are bringing in people to create a whole new wave - KP2.0 as i like to think of it.  And it's clearly already starting to sweep through the fans, even the miserable kants on FT are starting to smile and believe again.  Just imagine how depressed we'd all be right now if it was Scott Parker's backroom team being announced (and i'm pretty sure we'd have struggled to entice winks and coady with some tired old manager in the hot seat!)

[LcFc_Smiv]

4 hours ago, Aleksz said:

Why? Two of the best on the planet are Lorenzo Buenaventura with Guardiola and Oscar Ortega with Simeone. 
 

Besides, I’d imagine a lot of the current department including Matt Reeves will be sticking around. 

Personal opinion mate. I’ve worked with a number of European ‘fitness’ coaches who frankly I’ve been bemused at the standard of their work considering where they had been in their careers, and the standard of the job they had at the time. They typically tend to be a managers man rather than a club appointment which explains it to some extent.
 

The term fitness coach tends to be an all encompassing title in Europe, very rare that the role is broken down into different disciplines as it is over here but I imagine he will lead developing the on-field physical capacities in line with Maresca’s tactical vision. Without knowing them personally I regard the staff at Leicester quite highly, those who I know who do know them speak extremely highly of them from a professional and personal view. I hope they are given a chance to rebuild their department to what they feel is best practice for the club considering the facility they have access to rather than have practices dictated to them.
 

I’m not going to write him off, I’ve bookmarked some of his interviews and content that he has put out and will give it a read/listen over the coming days. As I said I’m not keen, but more personal opinion than anything else. I’m sure I will be proven wrong.

[volpeazzurro]

6 hours ago, Nolucklcfc said:

Bit worried about the lack of experience there to be honest. 

Compared to the last lot who had bags of experience but were nevertheless seemingly useless? Breath of fresh air required all round and a good healthy kick in the pants and refocus for a number of players. 

[Nolucklcfc]

5 minutes ago, volpeazzurro said:

Compared to the last lot who had bags of experience but were nevertheless seemingly useless? Breath of fresh air required all round and a good healthy kick in the pants and refocus for a number of players. 

I get that but I just think we could do with just one experienced coach. 

[baldeagle]

34 minutes ago, LcFc_Smiv said:

Personal opinion mate. I’ve worked with a number of European ‘fitness’ coaches who frankly I’ve been bemused at the standard of their work considering where they had been in their careers, and the standard of the job they had at the time. They typically tend to be a managers man rather than a club appointment which explains it to some extent.
 

The term fitness coach tends to be an all encompassing title in Europe, very rare that the role is broken down into different disciplines as it is over here but I imagine he will lead developing the on-field physical capacities in line with Maresca’s tactical vision. Without knowing them personally I regard the staff at Leicester quite highly, those who I know who do know them speak extremely highly of them from a professional and personal view. I hope they are given a chance to rebuild their department to what they feel is best practice for the club considering the facility they have access to rather than have practices dictated to them.
 

I’m not going to write him off, I’ve bookmarked some of his interviews and content that he has put out and will give it a read/listen over the coming days. As I said I’m not keen, but more personal opinion than anything else. I’m sure I will be proven wrong.

To be fair though the players couldn’t possibly be any unfitter than they were last season  so it’ll still be a step forward . 

[LcFc_Smiv]

5 minutes ago, baldeagle said:

To be fair though the players couldn’t possibly be any unfitter than they were last season  so it’ll still be a step forward . 

I don’t disagree, but also feel responsible parties may have already departed.

[Ric Flair]

5 hours ago, coolhandfox said:

Manager and back room staff have little experience.

 

Massive worry for me.

Will wait to see who the assistant manager is. The fitness coach, goalkeeper coach and 1st team analyst all have a good amount of experience.

[coolhandfox]

9 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Will wait to see who the assistant manager is. The fitness coach, goalkeeper coach and 1st team analyst all have a good amount of experience.

Would just like a wise head as assistant.

[Ric Flair]

5 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

Would just like a wise head as assistant.

Yeah it would be good if we could, Maresca has worked at a good amount of clubs so far with some interesting staff but it's often about timing as much as anything.

[Le Renard]

7 hours ago, Scotch said:

Michele De Bernardin taken from the same assembly line as Pep and Enzo then? 

 

Then there is the UK version!

[AjcW]

A few random points, not sure if they’ve been mentioned already. 
 

GK coach coming in from Sampdoria so he will know winks. 
 

Analyst spent 7 years at Barcelona and has left Atletico to join Enzo/Us which is decent! 
 

Assume Matt Reeves stays as ever as another fitness S&C coach? 

[UniFox21]

5 minutes ago, AjcW said:

A few random points, not sure if they’ve been mentioned already. 
 

GK coach coming in from Sampdoria so he will know winks. 
 

Analyst spent 7 years at Barcelona and has left Atletico to join Enzo/Us which is decent! 
 

Assume Matt Reeves stays as ever as another fitness S&C coach? 

That is some good credentials from the analyst to join us. 

 

And you'd think so, he's been here a while so I'm guessing he'd get a post rather than just disappearing 

[volpeazzurro]

1 hour ago, Nolucklcfc said:

I get that but I just think we could do with just one experienced coach. 

They seem to have a fair amount of coaching experience going back 6 to 8 years albeit quite a lot with some at academy or u23 level. However, at Manchester City, would that not be a little more progressive than what our lot have been in recent time. Our goalkeeping coach hardly seems to have improved anyone. As for fitness coach, did we actually have one or was he on holiday for the last 2 years?

 

There seems to be plenty of experience there to me both home and abroad. Whether some of our chumps are able to absorb or keep up is probably a bigger worry. 

[yorkie1999]

8 hours ago, Scotch said:

Michele De Bernardin taken from the same assembly line as Pep and Enzo then? 

 

And they all look like Ben Kingsley in sexy beast.!

 

[ClaphamFox]

38 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

And they all look like Ben Kingsley in sexy beast.!

 

De Bernadin telling Albeighton he’s needed for ‘one last job’ at QPR away:

 

 

Edited 1 July 2023 by ClaphamFox

[Parafox]

9 hours ago, South Shire Fox said:

Hopefully the 3 foreign chaps all speak fluent English to get the message across clearly. 

 

I'm sure they speak better English than we speak that foreign stuff.

 

 

 

 

[Lesta2014]

Anyone know if reeves and Tom joel are sticking around? 

[Ric Flair]

12 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

De Bernadin telling Albrighton he’s needed for ‘one last job’ at QPR away:

 

 

Yeah, that's what I said. There's me putting my bag up in the cupboard next thing ya know, I feel hands on me. Someone's touched me, touched my front... my front bottom. I can't believe it, I've gone all cold. I look around, he standing there isn't he? That steward with the guilty look on his face. I was shocked, I didn't know what to say. I had to sit down, I was that perturbed. Then his mate, the other one who was giving us all lessons on what we do if we land in the sea. How to wear your life jacket etc; He starts off, he starts looking at my all funny... suggestive. Now I don't know if they're wanting me for a twosome or something, I don't know how they work it. But I'll tell you what, it scared me. I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a cigarette to calm me nerves. I was trembling, I was very emotional and that when all the rest of it happened. It's very regrettable. Now, I don't want to kick up a fuss, right, press charges... contact the British embassy. I'd rather not pursue those chanells, that's not my style. I'm not that sort of a bloke. I don't want to lose the man his job. Man's got to eat. And I'm sure he's not representive of all you Spanish people. But I would appreciate it if you had a word with him, let him know he's been rumbled. The one with the ginger hair.