I actually think things have reached the stage where Maresca can’t be boss beyond the final game of this season. The anger seems too strong and widespread for him to survive and, sooner or later, he’ll be gone, rightly or wrongly because it’ll reach the stage where the fans just won’t have him any more - if it hasn’t already.
On only a few occasions have I thought that our football could be described as “brilliant”. When in form, we were pretty good but it always had the slow, Lordy, sideways and backwards passing, and the goal kicks from keeper to defender, and back, in the six yard box. Before Christmas, it had, for me, become a really tough watch and now the results have gone south. I dread another season of this in 2025-26.
In fact, I believe that, if we persist with him, we’ll be in the same position as Spurs and United currently are in the Prem. Only, next year, I worry that not only will we be in the bottom half, we’ll be looking over our shoulders at how far we are from the bottom three. Just because we won the UCL twice in the last 13 years, we’re not so good as to be “relegation proof”
I’d also be interested in whether anyone gets any dressing room feedback about how much the players actually ENJOY playing this way when, as the good players that most clearly are, they would have so much more to give in a more expansive tactical set-up under a braver manager. They need setting free to express themselves.
We mustn’t fall into the trap where we end up following the definition of insanity which, I believe, is “doing the same thing over and over and expecting the same results”. It’s stopped working with Maresca and carrying on with him in the longer term would surely be “insane”.
I don’t think the football up until December was brilliant but we got some results even when we didn’t play well. It’s only brilliant in comparison. I really dislike a high turnover of players and managers it’s dysfunctional. The coach looks out of his depth and a lot of the players look they don’t want to be there.
I actually think things have reached the stage where Maresca can’t be boss beyond the final game of this season. The anger seems too strong and widespread for him to survive and, sooner or later, he’ll be gone, rightly or wrongly because it’ll reach the stage where the fans just won’t have him any more - if it hasn’t already.
On only a few occasions have I thought that our football could be described as “brilliant”. When in form, we were pretty good but it always had the slow, Lordy, sideways and backwards passing, and the goal kicks from keeper to defender, and back, in the six yard box. Before Christmas, it had, for me, become a really tough watch and now the results have gone south. I dread another season of this in 2025-26.
In fact, I believe that, if we persist with him, we’ll be in the same position as Spurs and United currently are in the Prem. Only, next year, I worry that not only will we be in the bottom half, we’ll be looking over our shoulders at how far we are from the bottom three. Just because we won the UCL twice in the last 13 years, we’re not so good as to be “relegation proof”
I’d also be interested in whether anyone gets any dressing room feedback about how much the players actually ENJOY playing this way when, as the good players that most clearly are, they would have so much more to give in a more expansive tactical set-up under a braver manager. They need setting free to express themselves.
We mustn’t fall into the trap where we end up following the definition of insanity which, I believe, is “doing the same thing over and over and expecting the same results”. It’s stopped working with Maresca and carrying on with him in the longer term would surely be “insane”.
I don’t think the football up until December was brilliant but we got some results even when we didn’t play well. It’s only brilliant in comparison. I really dislike a high turnover of players and managers it’s dysfunctional. The coach looks out of his depth and a lot of the players look they don’t want to be there.