Blokes a terrorist. Stop playing your full backs in the half space. Idiot, I wish nothing but the worst for him in all his endeavours.

Today I decided to not watch the game and instead, meet my cousins who were watching the Liverpool game. That’s a sad state if I would rather watch Liverpool than my own team.

The football is dull, boring and “pep” without the winning mentality.

As others said, he’s safe until after the CWC. The season will peter out and we’ll be knocked out of the CWC. Let’s see how he starts the season.

The club made a massive mistake annoying Poch and falling out with him. We were competitive under Poch and it confident we would have got top 4 this season under Poch. Massive mistake by the owners/Winstewart.

The worst thing Maresca did was make Argo leave the forum.

It's okay @Argo you can come back, nobody cares about Maresca anymore, all is forgiven!

I'm certainly not going to get into the business of revisionist history around Poch's time here, because it was mostly complete sh*t with an over-reliance on one player, even the second half of the season we were woeful most games but just managed to get results. That being said, now the games are woeful and so are the results.

Words can't express how much I dislike this brand of football, the only light at the end of the tunnel is that the a lot of the dominant forces in Europe this season have abandoned this brand of dry, boring, robotic style for a more exciting way. PSG, Inter and Barcelona are all a great watch where the players are allowed to show their flair and aren't just slaves to the system.

52 minutes ago, JM7 said:

Today I decided to not watch the game and instead, meet my cousins who were watching the Liverpool game. That’s a sad state if I would rather watch Liverpool than my own team.

You watched Liverpool instead of Chelsea?

You're not a Chelsea fan.

The manager is a genius. Of course if us fans to blame, that's why the away form has been so amazing!

He plays a boring style of football that the league learnt how to defend against years ago ("if you want to play possessive football, fine, we'll keep our shape, leave you no space to take on chances then when you inevitably get a bit frustrated and over-commit, we'll hit you on the counter"). we've a mistake prone keeper who he insists on forcing to do back and forths with defenders putting him under even more pressure, we've attacking players who are always looking for someone else to take the chance on. We can't trust the plan because the plan relies on it being 2010 again and having a squad full of experienced players.

Taxi for Maresca

1 hour ago, Scott said:

Taxi for Maresca

Mini bus - so he can take whoever's in his back room team too 😁

ps. and those two numpties buying the drug addicts and other failures!

2 hours ago, timetowaste said:

I'm certainly not going to get into the business of revisionist history around Poch's time here, because it was mostly complete sh*t with an over-reliance on one player, even the second half of the season we were woeful most games but just managed to get results. That being said, now the games are woeful and so are the results.

Words can't express how much I dislike this brand of football, the only light at the end of the tunnel is that the a lot of the dominant forces in Europe this season have abandoned this brand of dry, boring, robotic style for a more exciting way. PSG, Inter and Barcelona are all a great watch where the players are allowed to show their flair and aren't just slaves to the system.

Absolutely, one of the other problems with having a young impressionable squad and a "manager" with too many players to pick from is, the manager has too much power to control the way the players play - I'd be expecting the better players to decide how to play during the game themselves but our guys have to follow the idiot Clearoff have put in charge - else they don't get picked or get relegated to the b-team.

What the club should be telling Maresca:

His blaming of the "environment". No doubt for me that came from the ownership.

Been holding on to that after the protest imo. Some will buy it though, and agree on us being so "toxic" we are responsible for the clubs position, it being all our fault, no blame on the owners.

My opinion on Maresca hasn't changed. Purely from football pov, he is fine. I don't like his squad usage n lack of sub but he is fine.

Our biggest problem in term of football is not manager. Maresca is fine, poch is fine. It is whoever in charge of building our squad. As I said in the summer as the power of squad building shifted from manager to sd, sd importance is very high or even higher than manager.

Last season they gave poch a u-23 squad. Luckily we hit a jackpot with Palmer and that saved our season.

We only finished 6th last season so the room of improvement is very big yet we only made some sideway/incremental moved for this season. Is Sancho/Neto significantly better than Sterling? You can argue Fofana is our best transfer this season.

That is our problem. I am not sure whether this is more of sd/ownership problem, maybe both but as long as we continue doing recruitment based more on agent/financial than football need, we will go nowhere.

I struggle to see how and when Maresca gets the boot unfortunately. The SD’s appear committed to him and seem to be planning for the long term. We all know managers get the boot once they’ve lost the players but I doubt these lot have it in them to do that. JT said that his team would work out in a couple of weeks whether they believe in a manager or not.

9 hours ago, Victor90 said:

The worst thing Maresca did was make Argo leave the forum.

It's okay @Argo you can come back, nobody cares about Maresca anymore, all is forgiven!

I was only thinking haven't seen any post from Argo of late. What happened there - has he actually left?

8 hours ago, Gordon Bennett said:

You watched Liverpool instead of Chelsea?

You're not a Chelsea fan.

I would usually agree, but this season I would excuse any Chelsea supporter for not wanting to watch us and Maresca's dull brand of football.

I didn't watch our game yesterday as spending time with family but I won't go out of my way to watch us because it just ruins my weekend.

42 minutes ago, JM7 said:

I struggle to see how and when Maresca gets the boot unfortunately. The SD’s appear committed to him and seem to be planning for the long term. We all know managers get the boot once they’ve lost the players but I doubt these lot have it in them to do that. JT said that his team would work out in a couple of weeks whether they believe in a manager or not.

Yes but their body language suggests something different to what they are saying

Everyone should be pulling in same direction but these owners seem to think just telling people things and emotionally blackmailing fans will make us believe in their project, their dunce sporting directors and their z-list manager.

They do not understand football fans. They just don’t. And for that reason, I worry you are right. Another dismissal makes them and the SDs look bad. And I just don’t see them admitting that mistake.

4 hours ago, axman2526 said:

His blaming of the "environment". No doubt for me that came from the ownership.

Been holding on to that after the protest imo. Some will buy it though, and agree on us being so "toxic" we are responsible for the clubs position, it being all our fault, no blame on the owners.

You're giving him far too much credit, Maresca is a bumbling idiot in press conferences, he's been at the fans for a while and regularly says stupid things. For this to be true it means that he knows what the problems are on the pitch but being told not to acknowledge them, but the reality is he doesn't know that he's the problem with on the field performances so it must be the environment.

11 hours ago, Dr. Socrates said:

We sack Maresca what happens to the useless Board members who appointed him in the first place, and who failed to sign a decent striker, and lumbered us with Felix, Veiga, Tosin and KDH instead? Do they get to keep their cushy jobs when in any other business they’d be sacked for incompetence?

We storm the board room and occupy their seats.

13 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

We're not quite that bad, but certainly a huge difference between the first 16 games, with the team still playing the exciting chaos ball, vs the next 16 games once Maresca has them playing how he wants ...

20 points from the last 16 games would extrapolate to about 48 points across a full season. We'd be about 12th to 14th or so. Basically where Man United and Spurs are.

Not relegation levels, but absolutely horrific for a club that has paid out £1.2 billion of transfer fees for players in the last 3 years ...

a few things spring from that data really.

1) Maresca is an absolute moron from turning us from title contenders to mid table fodder gievn how week the league is.

2) should have stuck with Poch as his style got us to second in the table despite people loathing the guy around here.

3) always a team that drops down the league at Xmas to relegation fodder, next season, we wont have the Chaos ball to fall back on and if the league quality improves, its been abysmal this year, we could see ourselves in trouble.

4) Maresca has nuked Palmer

from football transfers

EXCUSE FC

The Blues boss appeared to blame the Stamford Bridge crowd for Ben Johnson’s 31st minute goal, with Robert Sanchez opting to go long with a goal kick due to the “environment” created by the fans.

Ipswich subsequently regained possession and seconds later, Johnson had made it 2-0.

Furthermore, Maresca once again insisted that his team “created enough to win the game.” The Italian is beginning to sound like a broken record with a statement of that ilk, with it repeatedly being used to justify Chelsea’s poor results in 2025.

Maresca said the same following Chelsea’s draw versus Brentford and their losses to both Aston Villa and Brighton & Hove Albion.

Of course, he’s entitled to believe that his team deserves more than results have shown this year, but the excuses can’t keep flowing.

At some point, Maresca, and Chelsea themselves, must acknowledge they have an unreliable goalkeeper in between the sticks, a striker without a goal in his last 11 games and an extremely young squad without the experience needed in modern football.

After a promising start in west London, the atmosphere surrounding Maresca’s position at the club has certainly changed and supporters have begun to turn against him.

Following the draw versus Ipswich, one fan posted on X: "Enzo Maresca does not have the mentality to be at Chelsea. This is the reality. Poor mentality and we are playing poor football."

Another added: "We’re worse now than we were at the end of last season under Pochettino. We’re only going backwards under Maresca. If you still rate him, you’re not a Chelsea fan."

While a third said: "Anyone that believes Enzo Maresca is doing a good job is absolutely clueless."

Maresca could well be safe due to the fact Clearlake Capital may want to avoid another hiring process, but he needs a serious upturn in form to regain the support of the Chelsea fans.

as usual it was like a morgue yesterday, on Thursday supporters either stay away or chant against the board as much as possible, boo when we pass the ball backwards when theres a forward pass on etc

away to Fulham our supporters need to boo and chant boring boring Chelsea, the players need to put two fingers upto Maresca and ignore all his instructions, surely they cant be happy playing this style of football?

14 minutes ago, bluetrooper said:

We storm the board room and occupy their seats.

who cares ABM (anyone but Maresca)

12 hours ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

terrorist. Stop playing your full backs in the half space. Idiot, I wish nothing but the worst for him in all his endeavours.

He is just so far out of his depth, we have 3 of the best overlapping fullbacks in the league (Chilli is the 3rd) and he makes them do this strange out of position lets get caught on the flanks all the time but offer nothing going forwards rubbish.

The club is a bit of a Joke. No sponsor for the whole season, because they arrogantly thought they deserved more then was on the table. Sacked a manager who was taking us in the right direction and hired a Btec Pep while trying to follow the brighton budget model, two philosophies completely at odds with each other. No stadium updates, quality players isolated while meh players are included in the squad.

2 hours ago, Bob stark said:

My opinion on Maresca hasn't changed. Purely from football pov, he is fine. I don't like his squad usage n lack of sub but he is fine.

Our biggest problem in term of football is not manager. Maresca is fine, poch is fine. It is whoever in charge of building our squad. As I said in the summer as the power of squad building shifted from manager to sd, sd importance is very high or even higher than manager.

Last season they gave poch a u-23 squad. Luckily we hit a jackpot with Palmer and that saved our season.

We only finished 6th last season so the room of improvement is very big yet we only made some sideway/incremental moved for this season. Is Sancho/Neto significantly better than Sterling? You can argue Fofana is our best transfer this season.

That is our problem. I am not sure whether this is more of sd/ownership problem, maybe both but as long as we continue doing recruitment based more on agent/financial than football need, we will go nowhere.

I think you are on drugs and 100% wrong.

Why is Maresca instructing the players to play so damn slowly?

Why is Maresca asking the players to pass it 500 times between the defenders, sideways, backwards, sideways, backwards, forwards, back to keeper and start again...?

Why is Maresca asking the players to be so unadventerous?

Why is Maresca asking the team to play such predictable football?

If Maresca doesn't want us playing like this, then why is he not changing the team?

I do not believe the players are the ones who are choosing the tactics, style and tempo. This is all on Maresca.

It pains me that the board overlooked Luis Enrique for poch. Seeing PSGs frontline have creative freedom, full backs offering support out wide and we have Maresca ball is very hard to watch

Of course, this is easy for me to say from my sofa, but the fans at the games need to start pointing their anger to Maresca specifically at games. We've seen managers ten times better than Maresca get stick at games, Sarri being the first that comes to mind. A manager can't try to turn our horrific form on the fans, when he's creating his own problems, and get away with it.

Edited April 14, 20251 yr by timetowaste