I love how his idea of regaining control is bringing on 2 defenders.

It's soul destroying seeing this squad being so badly handled and with the knowledge that nothing will change.

The squad is definitely not as good as many have convinced themselves. We have some very ordinary 'making up the numbers' defenders and some horrendously injury prone players that hinder us by being good enough to play when fit, but almost never being fit.

But no matter how good or not you believe the players to be, this toss pot manager will consistently get less out of them than whatever they are capable of.

It's so sad when you find yourself hoping that you'll lose games in the faint hope that they might try something different. But they won't.

Like I said before, the most soul destroying part about this situtation is that we'll have to go through a string of 10 losses for the Board to actually sack this f**ker.

We're going nowhere with this guy, he can't take us any further. Awful situation to be in.

21 hours ago, Nibs said:

He's only 43 and it's difficult to win anything at the sort of clubs he's managed up to now. But the football he has Bournemouth playing, despite the fact they're a club always selling their best players, is so much better than Maresca-ball and he would be a massive upgrade on Maresca.

That said my choice would be Glasner. If it were back in the days of Roman, I would imagine we would be announcing Glasner as our new head coach sometime soon, alas, under these f**kwits, I think you're right - the bald one will still be here next season.

Nah I'm not having it.

Bournemouth have a licence to play good football because how often do they come up against a team just sitting back.

He's managing a club that is incredibly well run, he has great players, I am not going for a manager who doesn't have experience at the top again.

A sentence I never thought I'd say, Troy Deeney makes a great point.

What if the SDs fate are also tied with Maresca's?

I am not wasting any energy typing anything long:

Just going to say

He’s a BALD TWAT!!!

1 hour ago, Sconnie Blue said:

What if the SDs fate are also tied with Maresca's?

In the real world, they would be.

1 hour ago, timetowaste said:

A sentence I never thought I'd say, Troy Deeney makes a great point.

That was a very good observation.

When you’re made to look less intelligent than Troy Deeney, you’ve hit rock bottom.

1 hour ago, The Boehly Babes said:

Wouldn’t have made it out of the Ipswich defeat last Christmas if Sir Roman was still here.

The CWC win has totally masked the fact this pretender cannot set a side up for a full season.

Thing is, when the team wasn't doing well during the Abramovic era, you would be constantly checking the breaking news - half expecting the announcement of the coach being sacked. Out of faint hope, I still keep checking, but with the mob, the "Club Statement", is likely to be that they've extended his contract!

18 minutes ago, Nibs said:

Thing is, when the team wasn't doing well during the Abramovic era, you would be constantly checking the breaking news - half expecting the announcement of the coach being sacked. Out of faint hope, I still keep checking, but with the mob, the "Club Statement", is likely to be that they've extended his contract!

Or a “Club statement” that the club are close to securing a front-of-shirt sponsor.

• Santos one poor game against Leeds. Banished to the shadow realm.

• Acheampong involved in the Sunderland defeat (yet being our best CB) subbed off and banished to the shadow realm. (Then Sunderland go on and win).

• Hato one poor game against Qarabag. Banished to the shadow realm whilst Cucurella plays five 90's in a row.

• Estevao one poor game against Leeds. Benched for Bournemouth and didn't come on against Atalanta when we needed a goal.

• Enzo Fernandez. Stinker after stinker after stinker after stinker. Continues to not only start but plays full 90s.

• Tosin. Directly involved in 10 goals conceded at this club, a goal conceded every 70 minutes average, continues to get game time.

I can't have this anymore lads I simply can't. I need him gone or I am genuinely done watching to save my own sanity.

Edited December 10, 2025Dec 10 by Sconnie Blue

Potter was better than him.

4 hours ago, bisright1 said:

Nah I'm not having it.

Bournemouth have a licence to play good football because how often do they come up against a team just sitting back.

He's managing a club that is incredibly well run, he has great players, I am not going for a manager who doesn't have experience at the top again.

and you think Maresca knows how to break down a low block,

13 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Am glad you posted this as I was about to say...

Match going Chelsea fans... if you want this to end you know what you have to do, win lose or draw!

SPOT ON, BUT MOST OF THEM THINK HE IS DOING A GOOD JOB BECAUSE HE GOT 4TH, WON THE FARMERS LEAGUE AND BEAT 1 DECENT TEAM IN THE CWC TO WIN IT

BLUECO OUT (and take CoCo the clown with you)

28 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

Potter was better than him.

Walking in a Potter wonderland

37 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

Potter was better than him.

Not sure about that, based on how Potter did at West Ham. But certainly Poch was way better. He had us playing much better football and I think would have been interesting to see what he would have done with this team. Then again he spoke up against some decisions from the SD's so he was never going to last.

10 hours ago, PhilH930 said:

Was unable to watch the game today, but somehow feel like I've already seen this game several times over (at least).

The level of rotation, players out of position, slow style of football, and lack of real effort or energy - our eyes are not deceiving us, and he is coaching the football out of the players. While an ignorant comment to make, I truly believe the players would do better if they picked their own team and went about playing football. Never has a group made it look so awkward and unnatural.

He doesn't know his best side and has one tactical setup. We are regressing - I'd like to see a change ahead of a new season so a new manager gets a full preseason.

Didn't this actually happen at Leicester where they went on a bad run and in the lead up to their crunch game with Southampton the senior players (Vardy ,Albrighton) called a players only meeting to try and arrest the situation.

When asked for the specifics of what was discussed, Marc continued: “We felt sometimes over the course of, especially the second half of the season, the lads seemed to not want to take certain risks [in possession].

Quote from Albrighton below just seems so familiar to what we are or have been witnessing during Maresca's tenure.

“We've got some incredible players in the squad. We've got some real talent, especially the wingers. Their strength is running at players, getting past them, and getting balls into the box. “So we told them to go and do that. Don't turn out, make sure you express that freedom – I think maybe they lost a little bit of confidence during the season, with the defeats and stuff, but they've been absolutely brilliant for us, so it was just getting back to that.”

57 minutes ago, Caps_Lock_King said:

and you think Maresca knows how to break down a low block,

I absolutely 100% don't. It's his biggest failing as a coach

37 minutes ago, forbzy said:

Not sure about that, based on how Potter did at West Ham. But certainly Poch was way better. He had us playing much better football and I think would have been interesting to see what he would have done with this team. Then again he spoke up against some decisions from the SD's so he was never going to last.

I said what i said. If Maresca had the team that Potter had we would be level on points with Wolves.

19 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

I said what i said. If Maresca had the team that Potter had we would be level on points with Wolves.

Potter only amassed a decent number of points in his first month as he inherited a decent start from Tuchel. Similar to how Maresca started last season off the back of a team that finished strongly under Poch. As Potter made his mark on the team we slipped into freefall to the point where even an interim was unable to get many points. Also under Potter we still had a lot of experienced players from the Tuchel era (Kova, Dave, Chilwell etc.). Something the current squad is lacking.

Bar Lampard, f**k every one of the managers these SDs/Ownership employed.

4 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

• Santos one poor game against Leeds. Banished to the shadow realm.

• Acheampong involved in the Sunderland defeat (yet being our best CB) subbed off and banished to the shadow realm. (Then Sunderland go on and win).

• Hato one poor game against Qarabag. Banished to the shadow realm whilst Cucurella plays five 90's in a row.

• Estevao one poor game against Leeds. Benched for Bournemouth and didn't come on against Atalanta when we needed a goal.

• Enzo Fernandez. Stinker after stinker after stinker after stinker. Continues to not only start but plays full 90s.

• Tosin. Directly involved in 10 goals conceded at this club, a goal conceded every 70 minutes average, continues to get game time.

I can't have this anymore lads I simply can't. I need him gone or I am genuinely done watching to save my own sanity.

31 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Bar Lampard, f**k every one of the managers these SDs/Ownership employed.

Harsh on Bruno Saltor.

Gusto+Tosin to regain control of a game we never were really in control to begin with 💪

#MarescaTax