Enzo Maresca

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

Has Pep actually said he is leaving yet or are we still relying on Holt etc?

That's why I wrote IF. Nothings set in stone yet.

 

[urban genie]

Marescas apointment enthuses me much like frank clarks did

 

[Le Havre Oswald]

Marescas apointment enthuses me much like frank clarks did

Id probably prefer frank Clark now if I'm being honest

 

[jamielowndes]

Whats this absolute obsession with blues about "knowing" the club. Its bollocks. And sounds raggish. Did Luis Enrique "know" PSG before going in? Same for Ancelotti replacing Pep at bayern. Not all successful managers have to "know" the club

Its a common thing with football fans, same reason so many fans love seeing ex players become manager even though a lot of them are wank.

Pep came in and established his own culture rather than knowing the club's culture. I'll take that everytime.

 

[I'm Blue]

Significant games in his senior managerial career

2025/26

Chelsea - Aston Villa 1-2
Newcastle - Chelsea 2-2
Atalanta - Chelsea 2-1
Chelsea - Arsenal 1-1
Chelsea - Barcelona 3-0
Tottenham - Chelsea 0-1
Chelsea Liverpool 2-1
Man Utd - Chelsea 2-1
Bayern Munich - Chelsea 3-1

2024/25

Chelsea -PSG 3-0
Chelsea - Man Utd 1-0
Newcastle - Chelsea 2 -0
Chelsea -Liverpool 3-1
Chelsea - Tottenham 1-0
Arsenal - Chelsea 1-0
Aston Villa - Chelsea 2-1
Man City - Chelsea 3-1
Tottenham - Chelsea 3-4
Chelsea - Aston Villa 3-0
Chelsea - Arsenal 1-1
Chelsea - Man Utd 1-1
Newcastle - Chelsea 2-0
Chelsea - Newcastle 2-1
Chelsea - Man City 0-2

Beat Spursy three times.
I’m sold!

 

[Bluefen]

We've only won 2 trophies, you're right.

I wasn’t saying it from our performance I meant from the quality of the league - it’s been piss poor

Although that wasn’t clear from my post

 

[Bluefen]

The clubs ambition, regardless of who the manager, is to be the best in the world.
Maresca will of course, like any other manager we would appoint, be expected to win right away.

We should absolutely not lower our standards and pretend that what was previously considered a failure to now be a success. The club has won before Pep joined and Barcelona and Bayern both won the league after he left. No reason to why we should expect us to be worse, if anything we should expect a busy summer on the transfer market that will make us better.

The clubs ambition, regardless of who the manager, is to be the best in the world.
Maresca will of course, like any other manager we would appoint, be expected to win right away.

We should absolutely not lower our standards and pretend that what was previously considered a failure to now be a success. The club has won before Pep joined and Barcelona and Bayern both won the league after he left. No reason to why we should expect us to be worse, if anything we should expect a busy summer on the transfer market that will make us better.

Agreed… however no one coming in can be as successful as pep that is completely unrealistic. So what’s the bar ? Personally I see Maresca very much as being a post-pep manager in the same way pellegrini was a pre-pep manager

Certainly post pep we have belief and a winning mentality as a club - especially in Europe (our European campaigns prePep were pretty woeful and lacking self belief

 

[cleavers]

Although that wasn’t clear from my post

Apologies then, but it wasn't clear.

 

[IrishBloodEnglishHeart]

Whats this absolute obsession with blues about "knowing" the club. Its bollocks. And sounds raggish. Did Luis Enrique "know" PSG before going in? Same for Ancelotti replacing Pep at bayern. Not all successful managers have to "know" the club

It's weird, especially when he "knows the club" just as much as Pep L. Should we give him the job?

 

[JewelZee]

Other clubs fans are laughing at us for replacing Pep with Maresca, hopefully he proves them all wrong and is successful with us

He who laughs last...

 

[Bill Walker]

He who laughs last...

Has a beard and bald head..

 

[JewelZee]

It's weird, especially when he "knows the club" just as much as Pep L. Should we give him the job?

So according to you Pep L. and Maresca have the same credentials as far as being the head guy?

 

[Shirley]

Other clubs fans are laughing at us for replacing Pep with Maresca, hopefully he proves them all wrong and is successful with us

Did you get that from the cesspit that is twitter?

 

[IrishBloodEnglishHeart]

So according to you Pep L. and Maresca have the same credentials as far as being the head guy?

Who said that? The "he knows the club" line is being discussed.

 

[christened at st marks]

 

[Coatigan]

IF he does come in for next season, does anybody think it might be a holistic Pelligrini style appointment where he's just keeping the seat warm for a long term target ? But if he hits the ground running and excells then the jobs his.. ?..

Not a chance.

The more we look into it, the more we will realise the club have had an eye on him for ages. And why he was brought to City.

He is not (in quotation marks for all) the safe appointment, an interim appointment, the fall guy, the seat warmer, the best available, the closest pep imitation, or any of those assumed roles.

It is pretty clear he has been earmarked for some time.

According to all repotrs the club spoke to him and started the process while he was still at Chelsea. At that time, Vinnie and Enrique both were in the final year of their contracts, and Maresca had 3.5 left. The were far more 'available', so it is not a case of the club not going out to get them and settling for him instead. They chose to go for him over any other.

Not to be hypocritical, I have said I don't rate him as a manager (based on what I have seen at Chelsea) and even less so his demeanour.

But it is pretty evident the club really rate him and are convinced he is the guy, and not as a bridging appointment or any of those types of terms.

The expectation on him will be the same as it was of Mancini, Pellegrini and Pep.

 

[BringBackSwales]

I don't think we'd be having a parade if he was staying. I suspect the leak was linked to something akin to "farewell pep" balloons being purchased

You really think City would have arranged the Co op Live event to get everyone together after a parade to say by the way Blues we’ve got some big news, Pep is leaving?

 

[Gumzy97]

This will be a fully new regime I think we are going to have to get used to that. It’ll be Viana and Maresca now new era for the club.

Sam Lee also has said on a podcast that one player that was 100% leaving this summer is now not going as Maresca really rates him

 

[come-on-barney]

This will be a fully new regime I think we are going to have to get used to that. It’ll be Viana and Maresca now new era for the club.

Sam Lee also has said on a podcast that one player that was 100% leaving this summer is now not going as Maresca really rates him

Trafford, Nico G ?

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

Not a chance.

The more we look into it, the more we will realise the club have had an eye on him for ages. And why he was brought to City.

He is not (in quotation marks for all) the safe appointment, an interim appointment, the fall guy, the seat warmer, the best available, the closest pep imitation, or any of those assumed roles.

It is pretty clear he has been earmarked for some time.

According to all repotrs the club spoke to him and started the process while he was still at Chelsea. At that time, Vinnie and Enrique both were in the final year of their contracts, and Maresca had 3.5 left. The were far more 'available', so it is not a case of the club not going out to get them and settling for him instead. They chose to go for him over any other.

Not to be hypocritical, I have said I don't rate him as a manager (based on what I have seen at Chelsea) and even less so his demeanour.

But it is pretty evident the club really rate him and are convinced he is the guy, and not as a bridging appointment or any of those types of terms.

The expectation on him will be the same as it was of Mancini, Pellegrini and Pep.

It was just a observation more than a defo happening post. If that's true then we've got to trust the club. Just seems odd that they're still after him after his stint at Chelsea. I know its a basket club with a lot of meddling going on,but usually when someone fails(whatever the reasons) they seldom get a job at a top elite club like us. I know fuck all about anything btw, just observations.