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39 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

Interestingly there’s a rumour that Chelsea has a medical department that essentially decides how the maximum minutes allowed for a player.  And Maresca ignored their input multiple times  

 

Reported in nyt that the order came down to maresca that he couldnt overrule the medical team regarding player availability and they had strict rotation rules. I can see both sides, he obviously resented getting slagged off by their fans for weird rotations that were forced on him, but on the other they have had a lot of injuries and managers will always rush players back for short term gains which often results in substantially longer injuries. Still it's clear one has limited power as chelsea manager

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20 minutes ago, Tiresias said:

Still it's clear one has limited power as chelsea manager

Definitely not a “manager”. Probably more just a training coach in reality.

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37 minutes ago, Tiresias said:

 

Reported in nyt that the order came down to maresca that he couldnt overrule the medical team regarding player availability and they had strict rotation rules. I can see both sides, he obviously resented getting slagged off by their fans for weird rotations that were forced on him, but on the other they have had a lot of injuries and managers will always rush players back for short term gains which often results in substantially longer injuries. Still it's clear one has limited power as chelsea manager

Yeh the tension between risk, short term results, long term results and player health is difficult to manage and I don’t think there’s a defined best practice 

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The owners have come in tried to disrupt how things are done, 

 

positives for them 

- they have proved that PSR can be maniupulated as much as you want if you have existing assets etc

- they have a lot of young exciting players

- while not title winning or anything, considering how widely mocked their method of taking decisions away from manager their results havent been terrible, they are definitely in a decent position to get into the champions league

- the contract length thing has proved to be a decent way of attracting sellable talent at lower wages and they seem proven correct that this will work out

 

negatives for them

- Even sensible commitee decisions are hardly the excitement most football fans want

- they're cunts

- they'll forever be cunts

- they'll need a manager whom is willing to tie themselves to the club's decisions, manage the ridiculous squad and not care when players are sold whom is also good enough to get them to win something while putting up with that crap. Hmmm

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It's simply about protecting their assets, the football barely matters, it's just what the assets happen to do now and again, the money will always be the king at that club

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In any other universe could you imagine a PL top club appointing some bloke who had managed Derby, Hull and Strasbourg without a single honour on their CV? :lol: 

 

 

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13 hours ago, Sir Joel Inton said:

In any other universe could you imagine a PL top club appointing some bloke who had managed Derby, Hull and Strasbourg without a single honour on their CV? :lol: 

 

well, there was the time chelsea appointed enzo maresca.

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Just now, The College Dropout said:

As good as can reasonably be expected?

Qualified for the CL. Won 2 trophies.

And yet here we are today, where he's no longer in the job. Reasonable to assume that they won those things in spite of him, not because of him

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The more that comes out, the more you can see Chelsea won't hire a top manager. Roman always wanted to win the league. This PE ownership - that's not the aim.

 

The coach has to play kids they've bought. The coach has to put players in the shop window. Has to rotate etc.

 

As imperfect as our owners are - I do believe they expect the coach to do the best on the pitch as possible and everyone is meant to support that. That's not the case at Chelsea. Sell value is more important than performance.

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15 minutes ago, gbandit said:

Hope to fuck it’s not Iraola

Aye I think he's quality, lost the entire defence last summer and are still completing. Obviously a question mark due to his lack of experience at the top but he'd give it a go. 

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3 minutes ago, Robster said:

And yet here we are today, where he's no longer in the job. Reasonable to assume that they won those things in spite of him, not because of him

He's not been sacked primarily because of performance. He's lost the job because he doesn't want to be a puppet and is causing issues behind the scenes.

 

The Chelsea approach will damage a managers reputation. Truly ambitious managers like Maresca will want to move on. At best some may use it as an opportunity to then join a team that wants to win things consistently so will leave after a year or two. Chelsea are becoming a top 5 Brighton it seems.

 

 

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