19 minutes ago, forbzy said:

Hard to know for sure, but with games coming thick and fast (9 in January) there wouldn't be much of a gap anywhere to allow a new manager to settle in anyway. In the past we often navigated these situations because the squad was full of leaders. With this young, fragile group I think there is a high risk the season goes to trash regardless of replacement unless Maresca manages to turn things around. If we have a poor January we could be out of both domestic cups, out of contention for top 4, and throwing all our hopes into progress in the Champs League via playoff. Similar to how things looked under Potter/Lampard.

I agree and I am in the minority here as I am "Maresca in", but you never know with this board.

If I were Maresca and get to see out this season, then I would meet with the board and see what they have in mind. If it is still another transfer window full of young players and no experienced and proven ones, I would resign and go to City. Although I think there is no smoke without a fire and City already contacted him and made it clear it's up to him whether or not to come there as they identified him as Pep's successor and will welcome it any time.

I think the summer transfer window will also show us the direction the club is heading to.

I think it's time to sack him now- it's not just the results but the performances, the poor substitutions and game management, the fact that he hasn't improved the players and our involution in defence. On top of all that, he seems to relish the chance to rile up the fans by always almost making the decisions which he absolutely knows will not go down well with matchgoers. That's risky and it needs to pay off if you do it.

It's not all on him, I think the main culprit here is Winstanley and whoever decided that all that money should be spent on players like Disasi, Mudryk, Badiashile, Gittens, Garnacho, Neto, etc, etc. they are quite simply not good enough.

Sacking him is the right decision but far from the only one.

18 minutes ago, Drogba1 said:

He's actually a decent coach to be fair, wouldn't mind seeing what he could do with top players

Where would he be working with those? Cause it definitely isn't going to be here 😅

9 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

The only manager that has offered any improvement vs the previous half season is Pochettino who did it in both the half seasons he managed us.

This is no surprise to me as of all the BlueCo hires he had the best track record in management by far. I think if we'd have kept him, and given him the handful of experienced players he wanted, he would have had us right up there challenging by now, plus it would have been great to watch. Eghbali, Stewart and Winstanley really f**ked up with that decision, amongst many others ...

Really shows how much of a difference a good manager makes. Out of all of those after Tuchel, only Poch has experience at a high level. All of the rest are championship/mid table team managers.

I really think we need a manager that plays a 4-3-3.

We often seem to get over-run and have weaknesses in defence so think we need more force in midfield.

I don't see that changing with Maresca so continue to see us going nowhere.

People criticise our wide men, here are high level stats from transfer market,

Pedro Neto

Played 17, goals 5, assists 3 - return 47%

Garnacho

Played 11, goals 1, assists 2 - return 27%

Cole Palmer

Played 8, goals 2 , assists 0 - return 25 %

SKY now picking up on the Telegraph's story and reporting he could be sacked in January if results don't pick up. We have City and Fulham away. Arsenal first leg of league cup, and two must win CL matches in Pafos and Napoli.

Winstanley and Stewart? Likely at home circle jerking to Garnacho's onlyfans.

1 minute ago, Sconnie Blue said:

SKY now picking up on the Telegraph's story and reporting he could be sacked in January if results don't pick up. We have City and Fulham away. Arsenal first leg of league cup, and two must win CL matches in Pafos and Napoli.

Winstanley and Stewart? Likely at home circle jerking to Garnacho's onlyfans.

Tap in merchant Romano now on the case.

“Real TENSION is growing between Maresca and people at Chelsea FC. As of today, the feeling is really not good, it’s one to watch. Enzo Maresca remains really appreciated by Manchester City, nothing more at this stage. Maresca situation is going to be interesting to understand the following steps." @FabrizioRomano

1 hour ago, strider6004 said:

I really think we need a manager that plays a 4-3-3.

We often seem to get over-run and have weaknesses in defence so think we need more force in midfield.

I don't see that changing with Maresca so continue to see us going nowhere.

People criticise our wide men, here are high level stats from transfer market,

Pedro Neto

Played 17, goals 5, assists 3 - return 47%

Garnacho

Played 11, goals 1, assists 2 - return 27%

Cole Palmer

Played 8, goals 2 , assists 0 - return 25 %

Ok genius.

Feel free to pick Neto and Garnacho as your wingers ahead of Cole and Estevao LOL

Points after 19 games in the Premier League:

18/19: 40pts (Sarri)

19/20: 32pts (Lampard)

20/21: 29pts (Lampard)

21/22: 41pts (Tuchel)

22/23: 28pts (Tuchel/Potter)

23/24: 25pts (Pochettino)

24/25: 35pts (Maresca)

25/26: 30pts (Maresca)

16 minutes ago, JM7 said:

Points after 19 games in the Premier League:

18/19: 40pts (Sarri)

19/20: 32pts (Lampard)

20/21: 29pts (Lampard)

21/22: 41pts (Tuchel)

22/23: 28pts (Tuchel/Potter)

23/24: 25pts (Pochettino)

24/25: 35pts (Maresca)

25/26: 30pts (Maresca)

Have you got the data in the same format for games 20-38 please ?

Let’s get one thing straight City have zero interest in him. It’s a made up / click bait story with no merit in fact. Research it.

Things getting serious.

Could genuinely see him sacked come the new year.

I hope one day we get the warts and all on how the team is being selected, and who is deciding positions, style of play, tactics, subs etc etc. I suspect the interference from the SDs and Eghbali is significant.

1 minute ago, Sexyfootball said:

I hope one day we get the warts and all on how the team is being selected, and who is deciding positions, style of play, tactics, subs etc etc. I suspect the interference from the SDs and Eghbali is significant.

I doubt they have a say in what happens on the pitch, you're giving Maresca far too much credit.

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11 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Things getting serious.

Could genuinely see him sacked come the new year.

The more that comes out the more I think it’s already done and should we lose to City, we’ll be saying goodbye and hello to someone far worse.

I'm somewhat baffled by some of the 'big' Twitter accounts saying getting rid of Maresca would be a bad idea. I get that there are issues at board level, but it should be the SDs AND Maresca going, not just the SDs. Maresca is clearly out of his depth and it's been showing for a while, he can do his talking on the pitch but instead of that we're treated to some of the most boring football I've seen us play and not even getting results to justify it.

Think he is gone. Can't blame him. Seems there are way too much things the board gets involved in that they should stay away from. I get that the owners spend a lot of money and the sporting directors basically build the squad on their own, but that's where things should stop and the rest must be into the manager's hands. If the board gets involved in the day by day squad management and matchday formation by imposing who should be rested and who should be not, then what is the point of the manager? Gets no say in the transfer market and has to listen to scouts impose him big parts of starting line-ups...

Embarrassing really... What a clown show this is.

15 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

I doubt they have a say in what happens on the pitch, you're giving Maresca far too much credit.

Just one potential example ... how do we know who decided to hook Cole after 60 minutes against Bournemouth ? Maresca might be getting zero say about that yet he is the one who is getting it in the neck about it from the crowd ... the subs might be being dictated as well, which might be why so many of them are completely nonsensical. Almost as if they are decided by people who know very little about football and have other agendas in play other than winning the game ? We simply don't know either way.

I reckon he’s gonna walk. He’s talked about it before. His heads gone I think.

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I don't think he's done a bad enough job to be sacked mid season to be honest, a caretaker manager would just be a shambles like 2022/23

23 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Just one potential example ... how do we know who decided to hook Cole after 60 minutes against Bournemouth ? Maresca might be getting zero say about that yet he is the one who is getting it in the neck about it from the crowd ... the subs might be being dictated as well, which might be why so many of them are completely nonsensical. Almost as if they are decided by people who know very little about football and have other agendas in play other than winning the game ? We simply don't know either way.

I just don't see it, they're doing plenty of things badly but I can't see them dictating subs or team choice. It's more likely the bloke playing Malo Gusto in midfield and sticking Chalobah at right back that's making horrid decisions.

25 minutes ago, petre ispirescu said:

Think he is gone. Can't blame him. Seems there are way too much things the board gets involved in that they should stay away from. I get that the owners spend a lot of money and the sporting directors basically build the squad on their own, but that's where things should stop and the rest must be into the manager's hands. If the board gets involved in the day by day squad management and matchday formation by imposing who should be rested and who should be not, then what is the point of the manager? Gets no say in the transfer market and has to listen to scouts impose him big parts of starting line-ups...

Embarrassing really... What a clown show this is.

If this is true its not a million miles away from affecting the outcome of matches and to be more specific that old no no ...match fixing.😮

Current odds on Maresca being sacked courtesy of Oddschecker. He was 4/5 a few hours ago and Nuno was 9/2 then.

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Guess who doesn’t give a flying f**k what happens next because the f**king venture capitalists hawks still own the club….

As much as Todd made a few mistakes his signings were with the intention of winning. He didn’t expect his experience signings to be bad as they are but he wanted to win.

The venture capitalists hawks want to make money winning is probably not in the top 10.

If you want a preview of our future look at Old Trafford or Arsenal before they got a proper sporting director that’s out future for the next 20 years.

No top class manager will touch these dickheads only young managers wanting to make a name because it’s a win win for them.

Young managers will know they will get sympathy because of the clowns 🤡 in charge.

Told you all, he will be gone after we lose to City, GOOD RIDDANCE cant stand his boring football, refuses to change system, ruining players, wouldn’t be a surprise to find out players have gone behind his back, HE WONT GET A TOP JOB ( Complete rubbish put out by the owners to try and drum up support for him) he will end up at somewhere like Southampton