Enzo Maresca

The more I think about it, the better I feel about this appointment. If you think about it, this is the closest to Pep we can get as well as the safest bet since this guy has done it here before. He is a serial winner in his managerial career (albeit short). Honestly, the best available option out there. We can't get another Pep, but this is arguably the best way to keep "Pep football" around.
 
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Haaland94 said:
The more I think about it, the better I feel about this appointment. If you think about it, this is the closest to Pep we can get as well as the safest bet since this guy has done it here before. He is a serial winner in his managerial career (albeit short). Honestly, the best available option out there. We can't get another Pep, but this is arguably the best way to keep "Pep football" around.
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Life goes on. I’m excited by the change, although later on when I watch the documentary again, there will be chopped onions galore.
 
GoatersLeftShin said:
I get the feeling that he's more of a caretaker appointment than the long term answer. I'm a bit underwhelmed but completely trust the club they've done their homework.

I can imagine Maresca being a safe pair of hands and knows the systems. He's not likely to disrupt anything.

Maybe when the next man they want is available, we go in hard for him? I would imagine that's either the lad at PSG or Vinnie?
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Like the Charming man
 
Unproven at top / elite european level and a massive gamble , hard to follow Pep , but he knows our club and Pep's tactics etc., hopefully Vinnie rocks up in a couple of seasons.
 
PSmyth07 said:
Im interested to see what a different manager can do with Haaland, obviously he scores a lot now, but we don't really utilise him well enough
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I doubt Maresca will play in a different way than Pep. If Klopp arrived, for example, I'd expect Haaland to smash 50 goals a season, there would be a hell of a lot more through balls for him to run onto, that is his speciality and we starve him of those kind of balls.
 
City replacing Pep with Maresca feels like a club trying to copy its own homework and hoping nobody notices.
Pep is one of the greatest managers football has ever seen. You don’t replace that with a guy who couldn’t even keep control of Chavski for a full project cycle. Maresca talks the same positional football language, but that doesn’t mean he has the aura, adaptability, or elite-level management to handle a dressing room full of serial winners. Chavski fans were already questioning his rigidity, slow build-up, and inability to change games when things went wrong. Now we are supposed to believe he can succeed the most demanding manager in modern football? That’s not succession planning that’s wishful thinking.
The biggest concern is that Maresca looks like a system coach who only works when everything is perfectly structured around him. Guardiola earned authority through years of winning at Barcelona, Bayern, and with us. Maresca hasn’t earned that respect yet. One bad run and the comparisons to Pep will become unbearable.
And paying compensation to Chavski for a manager they were happy to lose just makes the whole thing look even stranger for me. Feels less like we are choosing the best coach available and more like we are desperately trying to preserve the Guardiola style without Guardiola himself. History usually shows that never works imo.
 
Whoever follows Pep, we fans are going to have to be very patient with him & the players ... as the post-Pep transition is going to be really hard to negotiate without quite a few bumps & a downturn in results. Patience - and still managing to qualify for the Champions League at least - might be the key ?
 
We've won the lot and continue to win things, so why the negativity? People talking as if the drop off will be massive - these same players have won two cups this season! Give them some credit.

Whoever comes in next will be lucky that we've got some great young talent to work with, that already have that winning mentality. We shouldn't just be aiming to get into the CL, I guarantee the owners wouldn't accept that.
 
Rather have someone that will surprise us in a positive sense than Vinnie/Enrique that can have a huge downfall. Vinnie’s time will come, but for now this is a shrewd choice, I’m sure
 
Surprised we never tried our arm at getting Enrique.

Vinny was never going to happen. Why would he leave that Bayern Munich team when it is near enough primed to be there or thereabouts for the CL for the next 2 or 3 years at least.

I actually think Maresca is a decent coach, but I am just a little concerned some at the club will back him and respect him if he goes on a losing run.

He doesn't have the credibility in the game for a club to back him blindly through a really rough spell.
 
What we mustn’t do as fans is get on his and the clubs’ back if the start isn’t so great. It is a phenomenal transition to go from Pep to another manager, regardless if pep has had a say in who it is. We can’t demand change if it isn’t going smoothly.
 
LangleyBlue1970 said:
What we mustn’t do as fans is get on his and the clubs’ back if the start isn’t so great. It is a phenomenal transition to go from Pep to another manager, regardless if pep has had a say in who it is. We can’t demand change if it isn’t going smoothly.
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It'll really test some of our fans. Especially the ones who have slates Pep and the team during the odd periods of poor form. Those that wanted him gone, let's see how they back any new manager when needed
 
I’m not too upset. It’s been a fantastic ride and it was always going to come to an end sooner rather than later.

Could we have had any better suited players like for like than KDB, Gundo, Walker, Ederson, Stones, Rodri, Sterling etc during the centurions/four in a row seasons? Probably no. The last 2-3 seasons including this, probably. Same goes for Pep. We are not replacing the Pep we had against Klopp and the one that brought us to the first CL title in amazing fashion (at least up until Istanbul), we are replacing a Pep whose decline has started already a couple of years ago, and it’s totally fine. We’ll be in good hands.

Thanks for everything Pep
 
El Ingeniero de Noruega said:
City replacing Pep with Maresca feels like a club trying to copy its own homework and hoping nobody notices.
Pep is one of the greatest managers football has ever seen. You don’t replace that with a guy who couldn’t even keep control of Chavski for a full project cycle. Maresca talks the same positional football language, but that doesn’t mean he has the aura, adaptability, or elite-level management to handle a dressing room full of serial winners. Chavski fans were already questioning his rigidity, slow build-up, and inability to change games when things went wrong. Now we are supposed to believe he can succeed the most demanding manager in modern football? That’s not succession planning that’s wishful thinking.
The biggest concern is that Maresca looks like a system coach who only works when everything is perfectly structured around him. Guardiola earned authority through years of winning at Barcelona, Bayern, and with us. Maresca hasn’t earned that respect yet. One bad run and the comparisons to Pep will become unbearable.
And paying compensation to Chavski for a manager they were happy to lose just makes the whole thing look even stranger for me. Feels less like we are choosing the best coach available and more like we are desperately trying to preserve the Guardiola style without Guardiola himself. History usually shows that never works imo.
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You could level the same accusation at pep re being a system coach who only works when everything is perfectly structured around him.
Worth noting nothing official from the club yet, and their decision making under these owners is excellent
 
Maresca at least ha 100% win rate vs Spurs, tho has 0% win rate vs Arsenal

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