18 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

To be honest he appsars to have been gagging for a move since the season closed and yet there does appear to be much outrage from the fans or the club pushing hard to keep him. Maybe there has been and I've just not seen it.

Many of of the Leicester fans will be more than happy to see him go. Leicester do not have the talent or the money to buy the talent to play Pep football.

Maresca is very ambitious & I'm sure our owners realize that if a big club comes in for him he will be gone. We are in FFP troubles so any money coming in will help.

12 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Next season will either be a monumental success or a car crash.
 

No in between. 

A monumental car crash seems likely...

Enzo Maresca a very poor choice.

the Leicester forum says he plays his favourite players even if they are having a terrible game, everyone knows who should be playing but he doesn't do it..  ffs here we go again.

7 hours ago, evissy said:

Tell me if you get past 6 minutes. He didn't manage to motivate me to watch the entire thing.

 

To his credit, he realized our biggest issue all season in just 3 seconds whereas it took Poch until matchday 33 to figure it out...

6 hours ago, big blue said:

Exactly as expected. Poor man's Pep. City arent exactly great to watch either, but at least they win trophies, I think we will get all the tedium with none of the glory. 

11 hours ago, gurru991 said:

A has a very much possession base style where the ball is knocked around with the idea that the opposition will lose their shape & and an opening will arise. He plays a back four with one of them stepping into midfield when the club has possession. He uses a single striker with wingers and two tens. His biggest failing for me is that he is very slow to make substitutions. His style of football was not overly popular with the  Leicester fan base who really didn't care for tippy tippy football.

They had 47% possession at home to West Brom just a few weeks ago, he can't be that possession based

Aside from Thomas frank (who's style death suit us), this was probably the worst choice on the list 

3 minutes ago, Drogba1 said:

They had 47% possession at home to West Brom just a few weeks ago, he can't be that possession based

As the season progressed other clubs worked out how to play against us & we had less possession .We also struggled to win games & dropped a lot of points. For me he is a one trick pony !!

Another Leicester fan in peace here 

I think this news has surprised most in football, let alone our fans 

Personally he leaves with my best wishes, got the job done in the end that was set out for him, nail-biting to say the least though, and even though I should feel gutted, strangely I really don't at all 

He will go down as such a strange manager for us, half of the fan base are glad to see the back of him, purely for his (at times) style of play that could be, and I agree to an aspect, very boring to watch, his stubbornness in playing the same players week in week out, no matter if they were having an absolute stinker, the refusal to go to his bench in order to change a game (a highlight of this is when we had been 1-0 down for 89 mins against Plymouth, been crying out nearly all game to go 2 up top and he decided to bring Daka on with about 3 minutes to go) and his stone cold belief in the 1 way he will have his team play, winning, drawing or losing (again he came out and said after a result of ours this season that if he gets an inkling that there was a section of our fan base not happy with his style then he would leave) I think we may have even won that game aswell 🤣 

I hope it works out for him with your lot, but I can't see it with how ruthless, and clueless your ownership seems to be, they seem to want success instantly, with Enzo I just can't see it, he's very much a project manager, so I doubt will be given the time and more then likely out the door come Xmas

16 minutes ago, Drogba1 said:

Aside from Thomas frank (who's style death suit us), this was probably the worst choice on the list 

Nah Frank would be better.

Safe to say this is what the team would be on the ball atm? 

 

Petrovic

Fofana Badiashile Colwill

James Caicedo 

Palmer Enzo Nkunku Sterling

Jackson

13 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Nah Frank would be better.

Super Frank would be better.

Just when you think Clearlake have hit a nadir of incompetence they pull something out to surprise you...

What an awful appointment.

*sigh*

30 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Nah Frank would be better.

Quite possibly, though I think our squad is a complete mismatch for his physical style of play

And I was worried we'd get McKenna 

 

This is miles worse. At least McKenna overachieved massively in the championship, Leicester were expected to win the league (and they still nearly bottled it)

"By far the best manager I've worked for. He's incredible. Everybody will say 'he's going right to the top'. He's got everything - great man manager, tactically incredible..."

🗣 Harry Winks delivers a glowing verdict on #Chelsea-bound Enzo Maresca: 

twitter.com/SkyFootball/st…

1 hour ago, Ibby_786 said:

Enzo Maresca a very poor choice.

From top 4 contenders to relegation contenders. 

FFS, didn’t want RDZ but I’ll 100% take him over Enzo.  I f****** hate boring possession based sh*te.

9 minutes ago, JM7 said:

"By far the best manager I've worked for. He's incredible. Everybody will say 'he's going right to the top'. He's got everything - great man manager, tactically incredible..."

🗣 Harry Winks delivers a glowing verdict on #Chelsea-bound Enzo Maresca: 

twitter.com/SkyFootball/st…

Think I'd listen to the fans more than Harry Winks TBH....and what I've read so far this will be yet another failed appointment.....oh well at least the tickets to watch the never ending circus act is free I suppose.

Leicester are my second team so I've watched them quite a lot under Maresca.

I'm not sure I can say anything that hasn't already been said, but in summary Leicester were breathtaking at the start of the season, with Maresca's free-flowing style of play bamboozling and overwhelming the relatively low quality teams of the Championship. Once the element of surprise accompanying his system wore off however, it was startling just how easily this low quality opposition were able to frustrate Leicester and cause their effectiveness thus results to fall off a cliff.

Maresca then took an incredibly long time to adapt his tactics to overcome these issues, meaning Leicester's previous huge lead at the top of the Championship was almost completely blown. Only some slight tweaks at the very last moment saved their season.

To me, his appointment by Chelsea just feels emblematic of a wider infatuation with talent rather than proven class. He could probably be a very good manager one day, but he currently lacks the experience to have refined his skillset into that of an elite manager today.

At least the Tony Bloom spell has been broken .... !

 

And still a chance to make 5p for every pound you stake !

Edited May 27, 20242 yr by Sexyfootball

If theyre appointing a manager based on who won the EFL and got sides promoted to the PL, they could have gone with Neil Warnock, Sean Dyche, Nigel Pearson, Brian McDermmott, Nuno Santo, Mick Mcarthy, Tony Mowbray, Steve Bruce  etc. At least theyve all managed in the PL. 

52 minutes ago, Drogba1 said:

Quite possibly, though I think our squad is a complete mismatch for his physical style of play

He prefers to play a possession based 433 which is what they do when their players are fit. He only does that when he has no other option which is why I like his versatility.

35 minutes ago, JM7 said:

"By far the best manager I've worked for. He's incredible. Everybody will say 'he's going right to the top'. He's got everything - great man manager, tactically incredible..."

🗣 Harry Winks delivers a glowing verdict on #Chelsea-bound Enzo Maresca: 

twitter.com/SkyFootball/st…

Same Harry Winks who failed at Spurs, same Maresca thar won 4 games for Parma. Didn't he leave City City Parma, get sacked there then go back to city with his tail between his legs?