Maresca leaves confirmed

[HighPeakFox]

3 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

At least your reply is completely balanced

 

Have a look on their forum though. I’d say a small majority hated his football 

Yet as we know from this forum, in all spheres, it is not necessarily accurately representative.

[BrilliantFox]

5 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

Have a look on their forum though. I’d say a small majority hated his football 

No disrespect, but Chelsea fans are not the brightest.

[The Year Of The Fox]

3 minutes ago, BrilliantFox said:

No disrespect, but Chelsea fans are not the brightest.

Neither are the majority of our fan base 

[shen]

11 minutes ago, funkyrobot said:

I’ll hold my hand up and say I did actually like watching Enzoball. Not sure any manager plays the style that every fan wants. Maresca emphasised wing play and loaded the team with creativity. Eventually every team parked the bus against us which is very difficult to play against and will ultimately result in having to grind out games. 

It wasn't really creative at all. He put a rigid system in place which could be really effective, until he was countered. To his credit he did manage to find solutions by e.g. pushing Ricardo into an offensive 8/overloading the midfield. But we created few chances and we wouldn't see goals from outside the box like we have this season.

 

But the way he implemented his style while still delivering results felt like we were in good hands. He spoke with an air of confidence or even arrogance and he got the best out of KDH, Winks, Ricardo, Hermansen, Mavididi and Vestergaard. 

 

With us, his pros outweigh the cons quite comfortably I think.

[BrilliantFox]

9 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

Neither are the majority of our fan base 

Must be a country wide thing then.

 

I've noticed Spanish and Italian fans are much more tactically astute in their understanding of how football is played.

[Jattdogg]

1 hour ago, Number 6 said:

Sure. But you can't expect a club like Chelsea to be delighted to be used in that way. 

Whilst i agree, who cares! They are cheaters, and player hoarding tossers.  They will appoint the next minion, be decent, make Europe and keep the money coming in.

 

Yawwwwn

 

Football is still dead IMO. That's another topic though haha.

 

 

[Jattdogg]

5 minutes ago, BrilliantFox said:

Must be a country wide thing then.

 

I've noticed Spanish and Italian fans are much more tactically astute in their understanding of how football is played.

Tbh, every club thinks the other teams fans are the worst or inbreds.

 

Every club has decent supporters, happy clappers,  racist cvnts, cocaine snorters, technically astute etc.

 

[Chelmofox]

32 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

At least your reply is completely balanced

 

Have a look on their forum though. I’d say a small majority hated his football 

I think we all know the types who get angry on a fan forum.

[RoboFox]

Feels like a very long time ago.

[winteriscoming]

Apart from the home game against Southampton the football under Maresca was boring beyond belief. 
However had he stayed and not gone to Chelsea we would have had a lot better chance of stopping up. 
There’s no way we sign Ayew, Skipp, and D. Reid had he stayed. 
I could see him ending up at Spurs. 

[Foxin_Mad]

19 minutes ago, Jattdogg said:

Tbh, every club thinks the other teams fans are the worst or inbreds.

 

Every club has decent supporters, happy clappers,  racist cvnts, cocaine snorters, technically astute etc.

 

What is technically astute? who decides the technicality of football?

 

In reality, two technical abilities are required:

 

1. Keep the ball out of your goal 

2. Get the ball into the other goal

 

The rest of it is technically irrelevant. To me a good counter attacking team or even direct side still has technical quality if they win it’s just different. I’m not sure who decided hipster sideways football between centre backs is somehow superior and convinced all idiot ownerships they must do it. 

Edited 1 January by Foxin_Mad

[Bert]

I would take him back. He’d certainly have us higher up the table. Still knows a lot of the players. I also think he actually got the football club and what it means to us. 
 

Let’s be honest. There’s absolutely no chance it’s going to happen. 

[filthyfox]

I recon he would have got found out if he stayed here another season.

 

Only just scraped promotion, and form was getting worse.

 

Thats WITH Vardy.

[Craig]

2nd highest scorers with 89 goals, and best defence just conceding 41... GD of 48 which was 13 clear of the next best. 
 

142 "big chances" created which was far more than anybody else that season.

 

His football really is boring. 
 

 

[whoareyaaa]

20 minutes ago, winteriscoming said:

Apart from the home game against Southampton the football under Maresca was boring beyond belief. 
However had he stayed and not gone to Chelsea we would have had a lot better chance of stopping up. 
There’s no way we sign Ayew, Skipp, and D. Reid had he stayed. 
I could see him ending up at Spurs. 

Stoke away ?

[winteriscoming]

1 minute ago, whoareyaaa said:

Stoke away ?

I’d forgotten about that one. 
Ok apart from 2 games then. 

[whoareyaaa]

Under we Enzo we had some purple patches in games it was boring but consistent and it worked over the course of the season.

 

Now we have a worse squad and have gone a bit more direct results are inconsistent.

 

Most managers would have a similar return to what we have under Marti imo.

[sdb]

He's far too good for us. He'll end up getting a very nice job in England or Spain. 

[bovril]

Under Enzo was one of the most entertaining seasons of recent years. 

[Finn Claw II]

If we get Enzo back - Vesty, Winks and Faes will all be in the team.  Winks will also then be given a new 10 year contract….

 

As rubbish as it all is,  it’s a no from me.

[Legend_in_blue]

Reading comments on the BBC and Leicester folk criticising the guy for only having Plan A.

 

I'd take that right now instead of Plan what? under Marti.

 

 

 

[cityfanlee23]

One thing I don’t miss about Enzo being here is the ego his football seemed to bring out in some fans, the idea that if you didn’t enjoy it, you simply lacked the intellect to understand it, and that with a bit more intelligence you’d inevitably come around.

 

Sad to see that attitude still lingering among parts of his fanbase.

[funkyrobot]

52 minutes ago, Foxin_Mad said:

What is technically astute? who decides the technicality of football?

 

In reality, two technical abilities are required:

 

1. Keep the ball out of your goal 

2. Get the ball into the other goal

 

The rest of it is technically irrelevant. To me a good counter attacking team or even direct side still has technical quality if they win it’s just different. I’m not sure who decided hipster sideways football between centre backs is somehow superior and convinced all idiot ownerships they must do it. 

We weren’t ever going to be able play counter attacking football in The Championship with the squad Enzo had. Playing on the break relies on teams coming on to you thinking they have a good chance to win, so attack. We won the Premier League because we were outstanding at playing on the break and also because up until after Christmas of that season, teams thought that we were relegation fodder and attacked us. When teams realised we were the real deal, they pressed less and had a lower block and we won by odd goals and through momentum.

 

Under Enzo, passing sideways increased as teams playing against doubled down on the deep block and playing on the break in the 2nd half of the season as they realised that this was the only way of playing against us and because they could see we had no alternative style of striker to Vardy. A point became a good result against us. Like in the PL winning season, this meant tight games, decided by fewer goals. It’s very hard to beat a low block at Championship level. Despite this we still got over the line as champions.

Edited 1 January by funkyrobot

[David Hankey]

Was the grass really greener on the other side?

[Chelmofox]

Just now, David Hankey said:

Was the grass really greener on the other side?

The other side was always Man City. In the meantime, hes earnt good money and won trophies.