🚨🎙️ Rio Ferdinand on Enzo Maresca leaving Chelsea for Manchester City:
🗣️ “I’ll be honest, I never thought we’d get to hear the full story from Maresca himself. For months, everyone was blaming the owners for sacking one of their best managers in recent years, but the club simply knew something the public didn’t.”
🗣️ “If a player or a manager no longer sees a club as the place he want, then why should the club want to keep him? Sometimes the biggest move a club can make is knowing when to let go.”
🗣️ “From Maresca’s side though, I found it disappointing. Chelsea gave him the biggest opportunity of his career. They took him from Leicester, trusted him with one of the biggest jobs in England and gave him a platform to build his name.”
🗣️ “You don’t leave a club like that halfway through a project because Pep Guardiola calls you. That’s not how you repay a club that believed in you before everyone else did.”
🗣️ “I actually respect Chelsea for acting immediately. Once they realized his mind wasn’t fully at the club anymore, they moved on instead of begging someone to stay.”
🗣️ “And look at who they’ve brought in—Xabi Alonso. A manager with a bigger résumé, a stronger personality and someone who can influence an entire football club, not just the starting eleven.”
🗣️ “Maybe Maresca leaving and Xabi becoming available at almost the same time wasn’t just a coincidence. It could be a blessing in disguise.”
@Oluwajuwonlo232@Blue_Footy They gave him permission to do that after he expressed his desire to leave.
Did you guys even read the statement or it is just too simple for you to understand?
@GrootBaas@Blue_Footy How many times do you have to read the situation to understand it or you just don't want to understand it?
Cos, how can you still arrive at this conclusion still?
I see some fans saying that BlueCo find it convenient to blame Maresca for everything. Very disappointing.
That December was a mess, yet Chelsea didn't want to sack him and gave him permission to talk to City ahead of a summer move. Some clubs wouldn't entertain that talk until the summer.
As a club, Chelsea did what they had to do to avoid messing up the season, yet the man himself decided to f*ck it over. He's the only one here at fault.
We mustn't blame BlueCo for everything, even when they did the right thing. It makes no logical sense.
So the fact you didn’t back him adequately in the summer following CWC success, Champions League qualification had nothing to do with his head being turned?
Also, the micromanaging environment and toxic culture the club and SD’s have created had nothing to do with it?
😂😂😂😂
JT is spot on!
I mean, Maresca has put a question mark on his integrity. Who knows maybe he was intentionally sabotaging the team so he could get sacked and walk.
They have issued an absolutely useless statement.
It's a group being governed by stupid people.
No FOS for years.
Finished outside Europe twice.
Signed a bunch of nobodies.
Literally turned the club into a worse Brighton and City Academy.
I’m not even trying to buy Blue Co’s brief here, but ManCity would never pay or apologize if they believed they had done nothing wrong. They simply wouldn’t. An institution of that size doesn’t back down unless it believes it has a case to answer. The same applies to Maresca.
🚨: This PR battle is exactly what I think the ownership wanted. Suddenly people are calling him a snake based on one public statement, even though fans have only heard one side of the story. That’s why I’m so sceptical of these PR campaigns.
Don't let this distract you from the fact that the SDs are still the ones responsible for most of the fuckery
They bought players and they made working conditions unbearable for coaches. And they had no reason to replace him with an incompetent manager like Rosenior. Just use another interim and play simple football like United did until you actually get a good manager. Maybe if Maresca was fully backed, he wouldn't have left. We would never know but given the fact that they publicly talked about backing Xabi Alonso in the transfers, it does prove that they weren't doing the same before with other managers.
Plus didn't they say (I'm paraphrasing)that the manager's role is very less in the success of a team? Now they are saying the season was cooked because of Maresca's departure. I mean, duh. That's what happens. The manager is one of the main guys in a football club. Glad they learnt even if it was the hard way.
But the SDs are to be blamed equally if not more.
Maresca leaving doesn't absolve the SDs of their own faults
Maybe I came on a bit too strong with some of my views around the club before.
But with everything that’s come out today, it’s clear how badly the BlueCo board has been running Chelsea.
I still can’t support the ownership’s direction until there are meaningful changes.
As for Maresca, it’s hard to blame him for taking the City job given the environment he was working in.
If anything, I respect the decision more now.
@CFCKhris@vandaviid Did you even read the statement Chelsea or you just don't understand.
Person RESIGN after they CFC agreed to his desire to leave AT THE END OF THE SEASON.
You're here saying they should fight for him.
Go and read the statement again and carefully this time to understand it.