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is your expectation then I've got to tell you I don't think me "not trying" to understand his decisions is the problem.
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The absolute bare minimum. Got worse throughout the season the longer he coached them. Play the dullest football seen at Chelsea this century and has improved maximum 3 players, being generous. If winning a third rate cup and not getting close to 2 points per game in league with a £1bn squad...
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I presume you mean I *haven't tried. In which case you have and somehow think flogging a midfielder that hasn't had a rest all season is a brilliant use of the £1bn squad. And the injury prone RB should be strolling around in midfield passing it sideways and backwards.
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You must've squinted really hard to see the positives. 2025 has been as bad as anything that's gotten previous managers, with much better track records, the sack.
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Is anyone still defending Maresca?
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I can't comprehend people that still see *something*. Is it not really obvious that he's a net negative?
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For me, the squad should've been comfortably in the top 4, not scrapping it out last day.
How many players has he improved? Who could they feasibly sell for more than they were bought for?
Enzo F? Beyond that, don't know. Best player looks lost.
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I've given up trying to make sense of Maresca beyond being wedded to stuff he picked up from Guardiola three years ago. Drab.
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It's a fundamental problem with the "project" that they're sticking with an average manager driving down player values, because they're too proud to admit he's not good enough.
A RB in midfield over Andrey Santos, running Caicedo into the ground. Make sense of it if you can.
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Will wait for the rest of the tournament but no minutes for Santos might be concerning. Everyone talks about him being a box-to-box midfielder and that seems well out of the scope of what Maresca let's players be.
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Did I hear right on the podcast that Chelsea paid his full wage this season? Presumed they'd have done a similar deal to the Sterling one at Arsenal. Stinker if not.
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Sorry to be a pedant Max, but you corrected yourself that Chelsea finished 6th last season, however you then said that their league position is why they were in the conference league.
Whilst partly true, until Man Utd won the FA Cup, their league position actually qualified them for the Europa.
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C, bare minimum given the level of the investment and the relative standard of the league. Think the squad was good enough to get another 15 points.
I'd want to see any evidence of Maresca getting the best out of players (other than Cucurella) before I'd be convinced he's the right guy.
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He's got two in two 😂 some goal drought that
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I get that and it's fair enough. I'm pretty convinced he's awful and have been since he started making Chelsea a worse team by insisting on his Pep lite style. For me, there's plenty of PL managers that have shown a lot more with a lot less.
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I think in this case there's very little to cling to with the current manager to say that almost anyone wouldn't be an upgrade. He's not improved a single player, which undermines the whole strategy
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If something is a problem, do you not try and fix it even if it's not the only problem?
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Hanging George out to dry here. He's been crap up front and has no presence, bottling challenges and yet he's still there 🤷 Neto offering nothing on the right, maybe switch them?
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Any idea why they're backing this manager? What are the positives they see? Short corners against a team that can't defend set pieces 😂 worst coach I've seen at Chelsea by a distance
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His ball striking is really bad for a 'striker'. He's still lightweight and he took often fails in big moments. He's been fine for the price tag but he's not a forward that Chelsea should be banking on.
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The red card for Jackson sums up a season that started brightly and has tailed off massively. He's got a lot of good attributes but far too much of his game is poor.
There was a moment where Chelsea broke and he took a loose first touch which killed the attack, then overhit his cross wildly.
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The team looked a lot freer when down to 10 and no longer shackled to Maresca's system - which simply doesn't work when teams don't give you loads of space.
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Or did they just start to play better when they went down to ten men and couldn't continue to play "Maresca's system"?
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Chris Kirkland's famous 3-appearance loan at Leicester is noteworthy too
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Who wants referees on TV? Mike Dean on Soccer Saturday, Clattenburg on Amazon Prime, that guy that used to sit in a cupboard on BT Sports... Does anyone respect their judgement or professional opinion? What/who are they for?
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Just shows that there's good players in the squad. What there isn't in the squad is a good coach.
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If Potter got sacked at West Ham he'd get another Prem job. Maresca would be scratching around Championship/League 1 clubs looking for a job.
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Worst team, worst manager and fewest points in the race. Don't even think a win tomorrow gives them hope.
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At what stage do the owners start to see Maresca as someone damaging their "project"? Is there any point buying young players to improve if you've got a coach that has made them all worse?
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Exactly. If he were to get sacked, where would his next landing spot be? Can't see there being any takers in the Premier League.
Can't think of too many Chelsea managers that would have to drop down a division or two for the next job.
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Complicate it all you want, the facts are that the job of a coach is to get the best out of his players and improve them in the long-term. His garbage philosophy is making 95% of the squad worse.
When the model is selling players for a profit, they might want a coach that doesn't devalue them all.
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The owners are dying on the hill of these sporting directors, who are dying on their own hill of this manager.
The strategy is only sensible if they've got a coach that makes young players better. They've all gone backwards.
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When was the last time Chelsea beat a competent team? And when will they end this charade that the manager is doing a good job? Absolutely lifeless.
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Just wondering if it's a coincidence that this was reported during the international break
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What does Jarred Branthwaite have to do to get picked for England?
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They're not worth watching while this guy is the manager. Such a nothing team. Plenty of players available today to show more than that. No excuses, just an awful appointment that they've already stuck by for too long.
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Ah right sound, so that means Konate shouldn't be sent off and VVD should be allowed to assault people regularly 👌
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Of zero consequences. Here's a load of other examples of red card offences that would be red cards for most other clubs.
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😂 "stop trying to win and just accept that I've seen a different reality to everyone else"
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😂
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"shoulder to shoulder"
What do you mean "it is in Europe" this is a European match and it's not been given
Baffling bias
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It just wasn't shoulder to shoulder though was it, it was a panicked shoulder barge in the back. As obvious as it gets.
You'd be spitting feathers if it was up the other end and I don't know why you can't just accept it's a huge stroke of luck
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How obvious does a red card have to be for it to be given against Liverpool?
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Genuinely curious, why's that "never a red card"?
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Some absolute wally started shouting "two tier Keir" after his karaoke last night in Liverpool. The country is in an utterly depressing place.
Let's not forget the people that rioted, that tried to set hotels on fire, that tried to kill innocent people, that encouraged that behaviour.