Enough of this stupid tika taka bo**ocks.

Get the best target man out there and play 433 with Madueke and Neto on the wings.

It’s really that simple, we’d be much more effective.

6 minutes ago, Scott said:

Would not mind if Maresca was replaced by Cesc Fàbregas next season. Doubt it will happen though think he's here to stay.

We’ll just appoint another unqualified d**khead that’ll succumb to the sporting directors lunacy, whilst BlueCo focus on their real pride & joy which is Strasbourg.

Get him out of my club . Absolutely disgusting performance no passion whatsoever. The most boring football I’ve ever seen and how many players playing out of position

Schoolboy tactics.. this our entire offence on repeat the wide man holds the ball.. someone makes an under lapping who then will play a cut back for a midfielder while the striker occupied the CB.. if this is not possible cut inside look for a shot or pass it back..

what is irritating is that we never change it up.. never have an overlapping runner ..

in today’s match why would he not bring ok Tosin as a cb to win a few headers -

Or given how small our forwards were ask them to play narrow.

One of the worst managers in terms of creativity I have ever seen.

Even of everyone is fit, I don't like his idea of football. I find it incredibly dull. Safe, risk free, sterile football.

You look at the most successful teams in the last 20 years, nearly all of them are 433.

Maresca plays too many square pegs in round holes, he seems to be copying the worst of Peps teams, and even Pep is struggling to get results with this inverted full back nonsense.

I'm at the point now where I hope he goes. He is out of his depth. We actually have the basis of a fantastic young team, but Maresca is not the right guy to lead us forward. He never was. Shouldve given Poch another 12 months.

Edited March 16, 20251 yr by big blue

Gusto is a prime example of where Enzo went wrong.

He was a fantastic player for us last season yet this season we’ve barely seen him.

He was extremely limited by Enzo and the manager has done that to the majority of players, the only player that thrived under Enzo is Cucurella.

We need to find a manager that suits the squad, get the most out of our players. They’re much better than the sh*te we’re seeing at the moment.

We had more possession and OVER one shot on goal. Not sure what everyone is upset about....

We have potentially 4 more years of this sh*te!!!!

His dumb slow sideways passing has sucked all enjoyment I have out of the game.

There is no version of his football that will bring us success.

The Tika Tika era of football is over and he’s not going to realise that until we are too far behind. The two 🤡s of a sporting directors haven’t realised that either but they wouldn’t realise that even if it slapped them in the face.

If you look at all the top teams now around Europe all fast attacking teams.

1 hour ago, dansubrosa said:

Enough of this stupid tika taka bo**ocks.

Get the best target man out there and play 433 with Madueke and Neto on the wings.

It’s really that simple, we’d be much more effective.

We don’t play tiki taka, that’s something we can’t even consider given the lack of quality in the team. Tiki taka requires quality of the Iniesta and Xavi level, we haven’t got it.

Doubt he will get sacked. Everyone in the PL has been sh*t this season so even this football might be enough to get 4th or 5th, surprised were still up there considering how bad we've been since November

7 minutes ago, dansubrosa said:

Gusto is a prime example of where Enzo went wrong.

He was a fantastic player for us last season yet this season we’ve barely seen him.

He was extremely limited by Enzo and the manager has done that to the majority of players, the only player that thrived under Enzo is Cucurella.

We need to find a manager that suits the squad, get the most out of our players. They’re much better than the sh*te we’re seeing at the moment.

Is the squad actually that good though, minus Palmer, Caicedo and James?

Despite the billions we've spent, hardly any of our signings have a proven track record at other teams. Nkunku does but he's also had a year long injury, he might not be the same player. He only scored 3 goals last season under Poch.

How many of our players would start for Arsenal? Probably just Palmer, Caicedo, Reece James and possibly Jackson.

Get rid of this f**king berk before he causes more damage.

Even the biggest Poch haters are starting to miss his football, that's how sh*t he is.

He'll have me missing Potter ball soon.

5 minutes ago, Drogba1 said:

Is the squad actually that good though, minus Palmer, Caicedo and James?

Despite the billions we've spent, hardly any of our signings have a proven track record at other teams. Nkunku does but he's also had a year long injury, he might not be the same player. He only scored 3 goals last season under Poch.

How many of our players would start for Arsenal? Probably just Palmer, Caicedo, Reece James and possibly Jackson.

Where was this energy from you last season when Poch had about 20 injuries? No excuses here, we've been crap since December even when we had a good enough team. He's had Fofana and Lavia missing since then, just like they were missing all of last season.

He's nullified Palmer, our attack has gotten far worse, Gusto looks like a shadow of the player he was last season. I can hand on heart say the only player who has improved under him is Cucurella, and that's marginal.

Edited March 16, 20251 yr by Victor90

2 minutes ago, Drogba1 said:

Is the squad actually that good though, minus Palmer, Caicedo and James?

Despite the billions we've spent, hardly any of our signings have a proven track record at other teams. Nkunku does but he's also had a year long injury, he might not be the same player. He only scored 3 goals last season under Poch.

How many of our players would start for Arsenal? Probably just Palmer, Caicedo, Reece James and possibly Jackson.

It largely doesn't matter. Player for player Bournemouth should be weaker than us, but they are a significantly better coached team working as a unit.

A number of these players would look massively better, if they were fit enough to run full tilt all games, pressed with intensity and passion throughout and moved the ball quickly when in possession with lots of movement off the ball. Then the team unit is bigger than the individual parts.

This intentional and abysmal tactic employed by this fraud of a coach is actually undermining this team and is then peppered with soundbites and briefings that are cringing and contradictory.

But in a club where football and winning is of secondary importance what does it matter to them.

Im slowly moving to maresca out.

He is failing to evolve this team in any positive way - and has made us regress.

The handbrake has to come off - and I don't think Maresca will allow it

4 minutes ago, Victor90 said:

Where was this energy from you last season when Poch had about 20 injuries? No excuses here, we've been crap since December even when we had a good enough team. He's had Fofana and Lavia missing since then, just like they were missing all of last season.

He's nullified Palmer, our attack has gotten far worse, Gusto looks like a shadow of the player he was last season. I can hand on heart say the only player who has improved under him is Cucurella, and that's marginal.

We were largely mid table the entire season under Poch, we only rose above 10th for the first time by game 30.

Here we're 4th, it's been a completely different season results wise.

12 minutes ago, Victor90 said:

Get rid of this f**king berk before he causes more damage.

Even the biggest Poch haters are starting to miss his football, that's how sh*t he is.

He'll have me missing Potter ball soon.

I miss Poch as you may miss Morata.

9 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

It largely doesn't matter. Player for player Bournemouth should be weaker than us, but they are a significantly better coached team working as a unit.

A number of these players would look massively better, if they were fit enough to run full tilt all games, pressed with intensity and passion throughout and moved the ball quickly when in possession with lots of movement off the ball. Then the team unit is bigger than the individual parts.

This intentional and abysmal tactic employed by this fraud of a coach is actually undermining this team and is then peppered with soundbites and briefings that are cringing and contradictory.

But in a club where football and winning is of secondary importance what does it matter to them.

On paper maybe, but I don’t think that player by player our team is better in the real world.

https://x.com/ChelseaFC/status/1901316349713866866

"We struggled a bit in the first 20 minutes, then after that we controlled the game"

NO.WE.DIDN'T.

Maresca thinks controlling the game means having the ball more. It doesn't work like that and we battered every Arsenal team we played against for over a decade by being the team without the most possession.

4 minutes ago, nonotnowjim said:

Im slowly moving to maresca out.

He is failing to evolve this team in any positive way - and has made us regress.

The handbrake has to come off - and I don't think Maresca will allow it

If anything yer man being injured and out is highlighting what a fraud this clown is. I'm with you that Jackson has very little about him. One thing he does do is the doggies. But just running half heartedly from Saliba to gabriel on his own all game would just mask the fact that as a manager this clown is tactically impotent, for sure!

1 minute ago, Drogba1 said:

We were largely mid table the entire season under Poch, we only rose above 10th for the first time by game 30.

Here we're 4th, it's been a completely different season results wise.

After 29 games last season we had 48 points compared to Maresca's whopping 49 points this season.

So yes, that means the season was a lot harder last season. United, City, and Tottenham have absolutely blown it this season, and it's a perfect chance to get in the top 4 but we can't get out sh*t together.

And the football was 10x better despite the injury crises. I don't even know how you can sit here and defend Maresca, talk about how the players are sh*t, the injuries etc. When last season you were saying the total opposite when it came to Pochettino.

1 minute ago, Victor90 said:

After 29 games last season we had 48 points compared to Maresca's whopping 49 points this season.

So yes, that means the season was a lot harder last season. United, City, and Tottenham have absolutely blown it this season, and it's a perfect chance to get in the top 4 but we can't get out sh*t together.

And the football was 10x better despite the injury crises. I don't even know how you can sit here and defend Maresca, talk about how the players are sh*t, the injuries etc. When last season you were saying the total opposite when it came to Pochettino.

No, it wasn’t. Embarrassing against many teams (Wolves at home was shocking for example), 5-0 drubbing at the emirates (I left as they were scoring the fourth to avoid the Arsenal fans on my way back home), losing a final that we should have won if it wasn’t for his spursiness, and I can keep going on. Embarrassing the lack of discipline when players were fighting to take a penalty, not once but multiple times! We had a good last quarter of the season, but I miss Pochettino as much as I miss Morata as a striker. I tell you who I miss, Tuchel, Ancelotti or prime Mourinho, Pochettino? Definitely no. Let’s stop with this rewriting of Poch’s history at Chelsea, he was mostly sh*t.

3 minutes ago, Victor90 said:

After 29 games last season we had 48 points compared to Maresca's whopping 49 points this season.

So yes, that means the season was a lot harder last season. United, City, and Tottenham have absolutely blown it this season, and it's a perfect chance to get in the top 4 but we can't get out sh*t together.

And the football was 10x better despite the injury crises. I don't even know how you can sit here and defend Maresca, talk about how the players are sh*t, the injuries etc. When last season you were saying the total opposite when it came to Pochettino.

I actually didn't want Pochettino gone after the end of season surge, nor did I want Maresca hired in the first place.

And you're right about the points tally, though it's a lot harder to feel optimistic about a season when we're in 10th compared to 4th.

But the reality is these these same players haven't looked good under 4 different managers (admittedly 4 completely unqualified managers), nor have they looked good at other clubs before joining here. It's hard to tell whether Maresca is really underachieving with what we've got anymore.

Not to mention the pool of good coaches available last season (Flick, De Zerbi, Tuchel) have pretty much all been snapped up.

Edited March 16, 20251 yr by Drogba1

1 minute ago, Drogba1 said:

I actually didn't want Pochettino gone after the end of season surge, nor did Iwant Maresca hired in the first place.

And you're right about the points tally, though it's a lot harder to feel optimistic about a season when we're in 10th compared to 4th.

But the reality is these these same players haven't looked good under 4 different managers (admittedly 4 completely unqualified managers), nor have they looked good at other clubs before joining here. It's hard to tell whether Maresca is really underachieving with what we've got anymore.

That I can agree with, it definitely goes deeper than Maresca, but I think it's obvious he isn't cut out for it. Since his style of football has been fully implemented, the performances have declined.

If this is Maresca-ball, I want out immediately.

We should've got a manager that had a similar style to Pochettino that wanted to utilise attacking fast paced football, but we've gone back to possession-sexual football despite all that effort to finally get out of it.

21 minutes ago, Drogba1 said:

We were largely mid table the entire season under Poch, we only rose above 10th for the first time by game 30.

Here we're 4th, it's been a completely different season results wise.

Can one of the mods pin this to come back to at the end of the season.