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Nucasol

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3 hours ago, Tsunami said:

Don’t understand Kompany to Bayern tbh. Does he speak any German, is Muller retiring? He’s got a job on, they produced some horrific performances last season. 

Spent many years at Hamburg before his move to the soulless ones.

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12 hours ago, brummie said:

With Maresca, I think the interesting thing is that, even though he just got them promoted, Leicester fans don't seem that bothered - a bit like you'd be if Steve Bruce just got you promoted.

 

Even taking into account the fact that almost all Leicester fans are a bunch of weird, whiney voiced, confused semi-yokels who point at planes and don't know how to do their shoe laces up, there's got to be something in that.

 

Imagine if Chelsea gave him a 5 year contract so they can spread out his £10 million fee. 

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I think we can all agree the famous 'all for one and one for all' team spirit at Chelsea will help pull him through any teething trouble and make his first big job a roaring success.

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8 hours ago, TRC said:

Leicester fans don't seem bothered at all he's gone and most don't think he is good enough.


A good mate of mine goes home and away quite regularly. He has been saying for a long time he’s not a fan.
 

Maresca has plan A and nothing else. Didn’t show up for most the big games. Over plays when it doesn’t suit. Too many games where they don’t create much etc etc. 
 

A pure Pep disciple without the genius element by the sounds of it. 

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40 minutes ago, Lush Vlad said:


A good mate of mine goes home and away quite regularly. He has been saying for a long time he’s not a fan.
 

Maresca has plan A and nothing else. Didn’t show up for most the big games. Over plays when it doesn’t suit. Too many games where they don’t create much etc etc. 
 

A pure Pep disciple without the genius element by the sounds of it. 

Seen him described as Pep Lite.

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They've just finished on 97 points averaging nearly 2 goals per game. :lol:

 

Could the football not just be down to Maresca playing a way he wants them to learn, to help be competitive back in the PL? (Similar to Rafa here)

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TL,DR: Chelsea brass want to play possession-based football; Poch didn’t. I know nothing of Maresca’s playing style, but if he’s a Pep disciple the hire seems to make sense on paper.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Optimistic Nut said:

They've just finished on 97 points averaging nearly 2 goals per game. :lol:

 

Could the football not just be down to Maresca playing a way he wants them to learn, to help be competitive back in the PL? (Similar to Rafa here)

 

Some insane takes IMO. Won the league, 97 points, +48 goal difference. Best defence in the league as well. Not bad for your first full season of management.

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Just as a recent historical comparison, Chris Hughton won the Championship with a recently relegated team with 94 points, plus 45 GD and best defensive record in the league in his first season of management.

 

Winning points scores in years after: 99 (Wolves - Santo) , 94 (Norwich - Farke), 93 (Leeds - Bielsa), 97 (Norwich - Farke), 90 (Fulham - Silva), 101 (Burnley - Kompany).

 

Thinking back from my perspective, I really liked Hughton and was annoyed at him being sacked (he did a good job and was a classy guy), but I didn't think he was necessarily a top level manager. Had he been replaced by, say, a Rafa level guy instead of Pardew, I might have been more sympathetic to the decision to replace him.

 

 

 

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6 hours ago, Deuce said:


 

TL,DR: Chelsea brass want to play possession-based football; Poch didn’t. I know nothing of Maresca’s playing style, but if he’s a Pep disciple the hire seems to make sense on paper.

 

 

 

 

One really suspects that the Chelsea brass have watched some youtube videos about soccer and thought aah yes possession based like pep guardiola thats how we want to play not realising that was only considered peak attractive to watch 10 years ago and even Pep now has got a big old striker up front and doesnt give that much of a shit about posession stats. Ironically the first sacked coach Tuchel was a bit more defend using possession style and was very boring. 

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32 minutes ago, Tiresias said:

One really suspects that the Chelsea brass have watched some youtube videos about soccer and thought aah yes possession based

Todd's been on the hallucinogenic BBQ sauce.

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12 hours ago, Lush Vlad said:


A good mate of mine goes home and away quite regularly. He has been saying for a long time he’s not a fan.
 

Maresca has plan A and nothing else. Didn’t show up for most the big games. Over plays when it doesn’t suit. Too many games where they don’t create much etc etc. 
 

A pure Pep disciple without the genius element by the sounds of it. 

I have to admit that a certain fraction of the Leicester fanbase have become choosy, entitled and maybe delusional.

Enzo took over when things were falling apart, and we'd been forced into letting several top class players move on - Barnes, Maddison, Tielemans, Evans

It's true we made a couple of good replacement signings. But to assume that it was a done deal to go straight back up is far from the truth, and disrespectful to the other clubs. Ask any Leeds fan. 

No manager can win all the games in his first season, but Enzo did his job and got the club promoted as champions.  We weren't winning most matches 8-nil but if that's what you want from a manager you may be in for a long wait.

Enzo "should" do better at Chelsea as he'll get the chance to work with a better squad of players. But hey, it's Chelsea, so who knows?

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