Chelsea’s season has gone from poor to bad in the space of a week, and there are already whispers of tensions between manager Enzo Maresca and those in charge at Stamford Bridge.Gone are the wide sm...
Chelsea’s season has gone from poor to bad in the space of a week, and there are already whispers of tensions between manager Enzo Maresca and those in charge at Stamford Bridge.
Gone are the wide smiles of summer when he lifted the Club World Cup and paraded around the pitch with the owners. It really doesn’t take much to plunge everyone back into chaos.
Law reports on Enzo Maresca future
Matt Law on Enzo Maresca.
The big news of last night came from Matt Law, who writes about the Blues for the Daily Telegraph. He reported on Enzo Maresca’s future thus:
“Understand Enzo Maresca retains the full faith of the Chelsea board and sporting directors,” Law wrote on Twitter.
“No sense of panic over mini-slump particularly after the much bigger slump Maresca and his team recovered from last season. Injuries and red cards seen as biggest factor in recent results. Chelsea’s aim remains to finish inside top four and have a run in the cups.”
Chelsea manager is in until he’s out
Following a few days of not very intense speculation about whether Maresca could be under pressure, this is what you’d expect from a well connected source. They will say they’re backing their man right up to the moment they sack him, and we’re a very long way from that, even if results start to go badly.
The very fact that Law is coming out and saying this, and that his sources are telling him Maresca is in the clear is a sure sign that things are going wrong.
But we wouldn’t expect there to be a manager change until we’re mathematically ruled out of the Champions League places – which would be months and months away. Unless things go terribly wrong, they’re going to stick with their man. The injuries and reds are indeed important context.
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