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Who would you want as our next permanent manager?

Maresca out

  • Ancelotti

    Votes: 9 18.0%

  • Emery

    Votes: 4 8.0%

  • Inzaghi

    Votes: 2 4.0%

  • Iraola

    Votes: 9 18.0%

  • Mourinho

    Votes: 6 12.0%

  • Nagelsmann

    Votes: 4 8.0%

  • Xabi Alonso

    Votes: 6 12.0%

  • Xavi

    Votes: 2 4.0%

  • Other (state in replies)

    Votes: 8 16.0%
  • Total voters
    50
Fabregas just masterminded his little Como sides win over Conte’s Napoli who were top of the league.

Needs more time but this seems written in the stars.

 
Fabregas just masterminded his little Como sides win over Conte’s Napoli who were top of the league.

Needs more time but this seems written in the stars.
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I don't think he's ready and from what I've read I'm not too sure his preferred style would translate to the PL.

That being said, if fan sentiment/unrest does force the board to make a change at the end of the season, I think there's a reasonable chance they go for Cesc. Ex-player who'll get the fans back onside, who's style of football seems to align with the preferred style of the board.

I don't know nearly enough about his managerial chops to comment too much on how he likes to set up, nor what his in-game management is like. But I've seen the phrase "positional play" used a few times by people discussing his Como side, which is a very Pep-y term as I understand it.

 
All Pep disciples are rigid in their tactics.

Great in theory but only if they have the right players at their disposal. Which will never be the case here under these directors.

 
Wanted De Zerbi, that ship has sailed, out of the two Italian ‘stubborn managers’, at least he would have tried to install that ‘sh*t-house’ proper chels winning mentality. Marseille are 2nd in Ligue 1, his ideas are translating to another club, only 45 years old, more experience than Maresca ‘at the same age’. It just made sense, but of course…. he’s not a ‘yes’ man.

We’re talking ‘margins’ when debating managers now, as there simply isn’t outstanding candidates out there who could take the bull by the horns and just make it happen.
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Genuinely no idea why we didn't go for him

Part of the reason I'm not so keen on sacking Maresca is that there's hardly any good managers that would come to us, and I don't trust the board to choose correctly.

 
I don't think he's ready and from what I've read I'm not too sure his preferred style would translate to the PL.

That being said, if fan sentiment/unrest does force the board to make a change at the end of the season, I think there's a reasonable chance they go for Cesc. Ex-player who'll get the fans back onside, who's style of football seems to align with the preferred style of the board.

I don't know nearly enough about his managerial chops to comment too much on how he likes to set up, nor what his in-game management is like. But I've seen the phrase "positional play" used a few times by people discussing his Como side, which is a very Pep-y term as I understand it.
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Dennis Wise still a director at Como? Can we get him to do a deal with the mafia to buy our club... or just get him back as the sporting director and sack everyone else?

 
Genuinely no idea why we didn't go for him

Part of the reason I'm not so keen on sacking Maresca is that there's hardly any good managers that would come to us, and I don't trust the board to choose correctly.
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I think Term_X hit the nail in the head. De Zerbi is not a manager that would just follow orders from the owners and SD's. No way he would last a season without falling out with them.

 
I think Term_X hit the nail in the head. De Zerbi is not a manager that would just follow orders from the owners and SD's. No way he would last a season without falling out with them.
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He pretty strongly hinted he left Brighton for much the same issues.

“We have agreed to end my time at Brighton so that the club and I can continue to work in the way that suits each of us best, following our own ideas and visions, as well as our work and human values.

If he wouldn't tolerate this at Brighton, it's unlikely he would tolerate it at a club with even more resources.

It's pretty clear that everyone from the owners to the sporting directors to Maresca himself are egotists who are only interested in success if they can do it in a way they retain 100% of the credit for doing so. IMO it's a very poisonous mindset that may eventually bring some success but ultimately causes catastrophic issues once the winning dries up.

 
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I sympathised with Potter a little bit because he inherited a bunch of players who didn't wanna be here and then when it got to January he was given a load of inexperienced players without getting rid of the older players so he was stuck with a squad of 35 players. Maresca has been handed a more settled squad coming off the back of a good end to the season, the longer he's had them the worse we've got.

 
Too soon for him yet but Rosenior looks fantastic and doing great things at Strasbourg.

Would be a better project manager than Maresca.

 
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