Enzo Maresca

RobH said:
I hope Pep left because the club learned Iraola would be available and decided to go after him rather than Maresca.
Click to expand...
Yep me and you both. Would love to see what Iraola could do with our team. I would like to think he would make us more dynamic, quicker on the break, better in the press, more secure in the back. I just have this feeling that Maresca’s model will be very Pep like only not as good.
Sounds like he might be off to Liverpool, though which is a shame.
 
TonyM said:
Massive Marescas or Large Ireolas. A hubba hubba.
Click to expand...
DOT%20Foods_461797xx0xx20200924xx094035AM.jpg
 
I believe that our board will have known for some time that Pep intended to depart. I would be absolutely shocked if any intended replacement was not already 'in place' long before Pep's announcement. This would preclude Iraola from any position at the club unless we also knew that he was not going to continue as Bournemouth's manager beyond this year.

I suspect that Maresca is our man, and it was decided long ago. I hope that it is announced today.
 
oldius said:
I believe that our board will have known for some time that Pep intended to depart. I would be absolutely shocked if any intended replacement was not already 'in place' long before Pep's announcement. This would preclude Iraola from any position at the club unless we also knew that he was not going to continue as Bournemouth's manager beyond this year.

I suspect that Maresca is our man, and it was decided long ago. I hope that it is announced today.
Click to expand...
Agree, it is pretty evident the club want Maresca and not any other manager. They could have waited and had interviews with a whole bunch before deciding, but it was all apparently done months ago. At a time when VK, Enrique only had a year left on their contract, Iraola was in his final year, and Maresca had 3.5 on his. So hardly the most available or easiest to get candidate.

Iraola might be pleasing on the eye, but he is even more unproven than Maresca, which seems to be one of the main running gripes here.
 
Coatigan said:
Agree, it is pretty evident the club want Maresca and not any other manager. They could have waited and had interviews with a whole bunch before deciding, but it was all apparently done months ago. At a time when VK, Enrique only had a year left on their contract, Iraola was in his final year, and Maresca had 3.5 on his. So hardly the most available or easiest to get candidate.

Iraola might be pleasing on the eye, but he is even more unproven than Maresca, which seems to be one of the main running gripes here.
Click to expand...
Iraola did a wonderful, wonderful job at Bournemouth. I respect him greatly and would have no problem with him being our choice.
With Maresca, the situation is different. We already recruited him. We placed him as head of the EDS. We promoted him to be Pep's assistant in the treble year. And we identified him as the person we want. That is enough for me. If you work so, so closely with someone and make the decision that he is who you want to follow history's greatest, then he must have something special. There are no guarantees, EVER, but it makes far more sense to make the decision we appear to be making than just about anyone else in the world game.
 
oldius said:
Iraola did a wonderful, wonderful job at Bournemouth. I respect him greatly and would have no problem with him being our choice.
With Maresca, the situation is different. We already recruited him. We placed him as head of the EDS. We promoted him to be Pep's assistant in the treble year. And we identified him as the person we want. That is enough for me. If you work so, so closely with someone and make the decision that he is who you want to follow history's greatest, then he must have something special. There are no guarantees, EVER, but it makes far more sense to make the decision we appear to be making than just about anyone else in the world game.
Click to expand...
Due diligence - it’s how we work
 
I just love this quote from him. I've been reading more into old school Italian football. Sacchi was an amazing manager I'd put him up their with best after reading more about his ideas of how football should be played and it seems to me that Maresca is the evolution of old school Italian ideas with a Cruyff/Pep influence. He agrees that the system is important but also that individuals can decide games.


Enzo Maresca asked if he agreed with Sacchi's belief that a football team is an orchestra with no place for soloists: "Yes, he is right, you need your team to be an orchestra, but inside that orchestra you need a couple of artists that make music better with their little details."
 
oldius said:
I believe that our board will have known for some time that Pep intended to depart. I would be absolutely shocked if any intended replacement was not already 'in place' long before Pep's announcement. This would preclude Iraola from any position at the club unless we also knew that he was not going to continue as Bournemouth's manager beyond this year.

I suspect that Maresca is our man, and it was decided long ago. I hope that it is announced today.
Click to expand...
Of course they knew some time ago,just look at the after party,there’s no way that could possibly be organised within a couple of days
 
oldius said:
Iraola did a wonderful, wonderful job at Bournemouth. I respect him greatly and would have no problem with him being our choice.
With Maresca, the situation is different. We already recruited him. We placed him as head of the EDS. We promoted him to be Pep's assistant in the treble year. And we identified him as the person we want. That is enough for me. If you work so, so closely with someone and make the decision that he is who you want to follow history's greatest, then he must have something special. There are no guarantees, EVER, but it makes far more sense to make the decision we appear to be making than just about anyone else in the world game.
Click to expand...
That's it. He may or may not work out, but it is a thought through decision with some real long term intent behind it. Like most things the club does. I know I have my reservations, but it also isn't the case that the club went for some seat warmer guy just because he was 'available' and looks and plays a bit like Pep because they couldn't get the managers they wanted, which seems to be a repeating narrative. Clearly they put a lot into it over the years. To suddenly pivot that and risk it on hot in trend managers like Iraola or Alonso, would be as much of a risk as trying it with Maresca.

Iraola seems to have a bit of a familiar structure at Liverpool as well by the sounds of it, so maybe there is more there in his decision to let his contract run down too.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top