Is he still our manager?

7 minutes ago, bluetrooper said:

Is he still our manager?

Our owners are no doubt drying the ink on his extended contract with enhanced salary !

Has the manager come out yet again to say his use of James is to manage is fitness? Find it strange he lined up with 3 RBs yesterday, and I just feel he is kicking the can down the road at this point.

Next year is a World Cup year, and it will be difficult for Tuchel to start him if he isn’t a regular starter. TAA will be a permanent fixture in the Spanish & English media, Livramento is also getting regular games at the top level. James won’t hand in a transfer request because of his loyalty bonus, but you get the feeling he is being nudged towards the exit. Ironically Liverpool and City have openings at RB, you just wonder if a big offer comes in the summer.

1 hour ago, Sexyfootball said:

Our owners are no doubt drying the ink on his extended contract with enhanced salary !

🤯

2 hours ago, ducavis said:

Has the manager come out yet again to say his use of James is to manage is fitness? Find it strange he lined up with 3 RBs yesterday, and I just feel he is kicking the can down the road at this point.

Next year is a World Cup year, and it will be difficult for Tuchel to start him if he isn’t a regular starter. TAA will be a permanent fixture in the Spanish & English media, Livramento is also getting regular games at the top level. James won’t hand in a transfer request because of his loyalty bonus, but you get the feeling he is being nudged towards the exit. Ironically Liverpool and City have openings at RB, you just wonder if a big offer comes in the summer.

Just the mere thought of playing him in midfield where he is so ineffective for his fitness, apparently, just for him to leave go play right back at Pool or City is infuriating.

I think we are fine with Enzo. He is a young manager who will most likely learn a ton as we go. We've also done okay under him.

5 hours ago, evissy said:

I think we are fine with Enzo. He is a young manager who will most likely learn a ton as we go. We've also done okay under him.

I'm so glad he's learning a lot in this role, are we giving him certificates too?

11 hours ago, ducavis said:

Has the manager come out yet again to say his use of James is to manage is fitness? Find it strange he lined up with 3 RBs yesterday, and I just feel he is kicking the can down the road at this point.

Next year is a World Cup year, and it will be difficult for Tuchel to start him if he isn’t a regular starter. TAA will be a permanent fixture in the Spanish & English media, Livramento is also getting regular games at the top level. James won’t hand in a transfer request because of his loyalty bonus, but you get the feeling he is being nudged towards the exit. Ironically Liverpool and City have openings at RB, you just wonder if a big offer comes in the summer.

Reece problem is more of fitnes than position. At times this season he could barely sprint and that is scary.

Hopefully he can recover his fitness back.

11 hours ago, evissy said:

I think we are fine with Enzo. He is a young manager who will most likely learn a ton as we go. We've also done okay under him.

evissy - please tell me one area where we have progressed with Enzo as our manager.

Just 1 area where we look better with him, than we did with any other manager over the last 5 years.

2 hours ago, Bob stark said:

Reece problem is more of fitnes than position. At times this season he could barely sprint and that is scary.

Hopefully he can recover his fitness back.

History puts a dampener on that hope.

1 minute ago, nonotnowjim said:

evissy - please tell me one area where we have progressed with Enzo as our manager.

Just 1 area where we look better with him, than we did with any other manager over the last 5 years.

He’s managed to bore the arse of more people that I can remember in the last 5 decades.

12 hours ago, evissy said:

I think we are fine with Enzo. He is a young manager who will most likely learn a ton as we go. We've also done okay under him.

There will certainly be plenty of seats available for Todd Boehly to fleece tourists with on his app.

10 hours ago, nonotnowjim said:

evissy - please tell me one area where we have progressed with Enzo as our manager.

Just 1 area where we look better with him, than we did with any other manager over the last 5 years.

We are hopefully building with Enzo. Small gradual steps.

As I was saying we can drop points against Ipswich... City just drew against Southampton. Not sure what excuses you can have for them.

Win at Newcastle and we go above City.

1 hour ago, evissy said:

We are hopefully building with Enzo. Small gradual steps.

That is very vague. I am asking for 1 tangible thing we have improved under Maresca

50 minutes ago, nonotnowjim said:

That is very vague. I am asking for 1 tangible thing we have improved under Maresca

One could argue more points than Poch, but that wouldn't amount to sh*t if he finishes in the same league position as Poch did!

Plus Poch did have the additional struggle of getting us there quickly from 12th!

54 minutes ago, nonotnowjim said:

That is very vague. I am asking for 1 tangible thing we have improved under Maresca

I don't think that is necessary. From where I am standing anyway.

5 hours ago, evissy said:

We are hopefully building with Enzo. Small gradual steps.

Our players are learning Italian.

" Haaalloo. How are your?? I am'er well'er" I have no cheese. Do you have cheese'er"

9 hours ago, evissy said:

I don't think that is necessary. From where I am standing anyway.

You can't or won't?

7 hours ago, nonotnowjim said:

You can't or won't?

Well. You can dissect the game in pieces but I am not sure how it makes any difference. Pochettino played different type of football than Enzo. Different football, different measurements. And our players are one year older and especially more experienced. Hard to judge whether it is just growth or something the coach did.

I think we have progressed enough to keep the coach. I don't see the need for a change. I think it is just so important to keep going with the same coach especially with a young team like we have.

Ah I think I've worked it all out, actually.

See, generally the key to being a successful team is you are structured and solid at the back, and quick to break forward.

He's just got it the wrong way round. So he's gone for unstructured and open at the back, and slow to break forward.

Should be an easy fix.

Maresca has never once set this side up right all season. We’re so f**king slow to do anything.

sh*te manager, he doesn't adapt to a situation at all. He just has us playing the same way every time. Fast paced games, slow paced games, games where teams play more open, games where teams sit back more, nothing changes.

We must have had targets this season that were improvements on last season, which one of those targets has Maresca met?

Champions League? still could go either way, but I don't think we should be favourites.

Improved the players? Almost all of them have either gone backwards or not improved at all under him.

An improvement on the style of football? Worse than ever.

Conference League? If he fails to win that, then he has to go down as one of our worst ever managers. A complete failure.

Why the f**k do we have this guy as head coach of all of these flair players? I don't want him anywhere near Estevao, he will ruin him.

Edited May 11, 20251 yr by Scott Harris

He manages to a formula, has absolutely no imagination or inclination to make changes to alter that. Last 2 games he's subbed lavia on the 75th minute, because he decided to do that before the game, no accounting for the current match situation. James put in a belting cross, first decent one of the game, but then he moved him inside, to cover lavia going off, because he planned it that way. He's utterly atrocious, quite possibly the worst manager we've ever had.

Pellegrini must be rubbing his hands with glee. He totally knows how he's going to set up Betis against us.