25 minutes ago, Nevamind said:

I am leaning more towards he has very little say in transfers. 

Lets look at players:

Mudryk/Sterling -  Maresca saying Sterling isn't the type of winger he likes but Mudryk is? I know Sterling is not popular but in just football terms we get way more out of him the Mudryk who really hasn't shown anything to suggest he is ready for first team. The boards just wants Sterling gone because of his high wages not because Maresca thinks Sterling is worse than Mudryk.

Chalobah - Remember how Maresca deemed him not good enough, not good enough to even be on the bench/pre season tour. Now he is banished and we got Badiashile, an unproven Tosin and injury prone players in defence.

Madueke - How is he still for sale, especially after the preseason and the goal on Thursday. Maresca comments are weird too, saying he likes him but anything is possible till transfer end, ok?

Goalkeepers - why we buy 8 keepers and out of that Sanchez is the best apparently and Maresca is even happy with that? 

Gallagher - well was on sale the last 2 years so how can Maresca even stop that if he wanted to. Poch didn't so he walked (one of many inconsistencies with the board)

 

Chukwuemeka - Again Maresca says he is a very good players but he won't finds many minutes here. Okay he refered to injuries but he recovered now and others players in the forst team were given time even thou they were constantly out injured... The board just bought too many players so they have to ship him out.

 

KDH - finally it seems this is a Maresca signing but an underwhelming one (at least so far) i guess the exception proves the rule.

I think like any manager, he does have a say/input. But it is just an input. In the end of the day, it is the two sd who made the decision. 

Chalobah is tailored made to play that rb/rcb position. Gallagher is probably our best player at dm goes into 10. 

12 hours ago, just said:

We have had an irony gif on here for years Dermott.

Modern fabrics have made it redundant.

13 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

If Maresca has no say in transfers, how on earth have we ended up with Dewsbury-Hall from his old club Leicester ? Surely he must have requested that ?

 

9 hours ago, BS66 said:

Buying at more than market value was probably part of the compensation to get Maresca. Begs the question as to whether or not Drinkwater-Hall, I mean Dewsbury-Hall, will be held to the same consistency criteria required of others. 

 

Yep, I think it was part of the Maresca deal and that PSR back scratching rubbish all clubs will now be involved with.

I also think they (including maresca, his input) thought, it would be helpful too if they brought someone in to help get the tactics across to the team (just speed it up slightly). 

Imho, Input like that is all the power maresca has when it comes to transfers and it can be ignored all together if dumb and dumber decide something different.

You can honestly see how much Maresca wants the transfer window to close in his interview vids. His face and body language says it all but also his actual responses. In the last one he actually said he wants the window to close now.

Next season, KDH will be gone I imagine. And he'll be on the bench from January ish once others pass him in skill and ability.

Sold for a profit next summer.

Edited August 24, 20241 yr by Simplymo

10 minutes ago, Simplymo said:

Next season, KDH will be gone I imagine. And he'll be on the bench from January ish once others pass him in skill and ability.

Sold for a profit next summer.

For a profit?  We paid £30 million for him. I cannot see any clubs going beyond £15 million for him. I mean this idea that we are buying players so as to make a profit is nonsense innit. We are buying high. I am no great capitalist, but i think the idea is that you buy low and sell high.

11 hours ago, BS66 said:

Buying at more than market value was probably part of the compensation to get Maresca. Begs the question as to whether or not Drinkwater-Hall, I mean Dewsbury-Hall, will be held to the same consistency criteria required of others. 

Why on earth would Leicester want us to buy their best midfielder as part of getting maresca, no matter what the price. 

2 hours ago, TheCeleryKing said:

For a profit?  We paid £30 million for him. I cannot see any clubs going beyond £15 million for him. I mean this idea that we are buying players so as to make a profit is nonsense innit. We are buying high. I am no great capitalist, but i think the idea is that you buy low and sell high.

They will hope for a profit I should have said.. lol

I think if he does well enough then he won't be far off the mark in the market these days.

Edited August 24, 20241 yr by Simplymo

23 minutes ago, dkw said:

Why on earth would Leicester want us to buy their best midfielder as part of getting maresca, no matter what the price. 

If he’s so important to them why did they sell him? Like us, and many other teams “on earth”, they have PSR issues and need the money. 

3 hours ago, BS66 said:

If he’s so important to them why did they sell him? Like us, and many other teams “on earth”, they have PSR issues and need the money. 

If they wanted money from us they would have sold us some academy kid for an inflated figure. Maresca obviously wanted him. 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/30043755/chelsea-news-maresca-rant-mudryk-fan-reaction/

From The Sun so yes, sensationalist and provocative of course, but there are some points that appear valid and worthy of an answer.

20 hours ago, Andy North said:

Modern fabrics have made it redundant.

Modern attitudes have..

On 23/08/2024 at 18:00, Erik said:

Poch wanted more authority than the board were prepared to give. Maresca is probably a balanced appointment. Does this mean Maresca has zero say in transfers to the point where he just picks a starting XI every week. There's no evidence to support this thinking. We can clearly see from the squad building this season, he might have more of a say than Poch ever did. 

How do you know. Was there any evidence that any of this happened in this way. I know that Poch started that he would like a bit more experience but he also contradicted himself upon occasion. But I don't recall seeing anything else.

A half time teamtalk affecting the team in a positive way, what is this woke nonsense?

43 minutes ago, Argo said:

A half time teamtalk affecting the team in a positive way, what is this woke nonsense?

He doesn’t look like the type of coach you want to get a bollocking from at half time.

No more Caicedo on an island by himself 

 

1 hour ago, Argo said:

A half time teamtalk affecting the team in a positive way, what is this woke nonsense?

The Anti-poch.

He called out Mudryk again says he wasn’t happy with him. 

Obviously he's always been a moron but the fickle nature of football is unrivalled 

Starting to love this bloke. Handles himself so well from the media agenda vermin. 
 

 

15 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Starting to love this bloke. Handles himself so well from the media agenda vermin. 
 

 

They are going to realise he doesn’t take sh*t from them.

Congrats to Enzo for his first PL win, and in some style as well !

Listening to his interviews (and he's fast becoming best in class for these in my book) he didn't panic at half time. No shouting or screaming. Simply focussed the team on having better care of the ball ... more accurate passing etc. 

3 hours ago, Argo said:

A half time teamtalk affecting the team in a positive way, what is this woke nonsense?

A very rare thing to see after a year of the complete opposite with Pochettino. Hopefully it continues.

50 minutes ago, El regreso said:

He called out Mudryk again says he wasn’t happy with him. 

With the competition for places now, I doubt Mudryk will be starting many more games unless he can improve his form quickly. 

2 minutes ago, forbzy said:

With the competition for places now, I doubt Mudryk will be starting many more games unless he can improve his form quickly. 

No chance he is getting in ahead of Neto or Felix, unless they're injured (a very high chance)

I think with starting Mudryk, it was Maresca telling him he has half a game to prove him wrong.....and he failed. It's not something I feel Pochettino would ever have done, he's too soft. It's brutal, but this is the nature of sport and has to be done. 

6 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

No chance he is getting in ahead of Neto or Felix, unless they're injured (a very high chance)

I think with starting Mudryk, it was Maresca telling him he has half a game to prove him wrong.....and he failed. It's not something I feel Pochettino would ever have done, he's too soft. It's brutal, but this is the nature of sport and has to be done. 

We shall see. He may have opportunities to start in the Conference League.

I absolutely love his honesty in pressers. Feels refreshing