When Graham Potter took over from Thomas Tuchel, who was not quite friends with Todd Boehly and the new Chelsea owners, the successful coach at Brighton was measured against a Champions League ticket in the Premier League – as the minimum goal. When this goal disappeared from sight after just seven months, it was over and out for Potter. Now Enzo Maresca is in a swing from a clear course for a CL ticket, does this mean that Maresca will also be tipped out of Stamford Bridge?
Todd Boehly has already sacked three Chelsea managers since the autumn of 2022. Mauricio Pochettino got out last season, in what was saved into 6th place, only five points behind the Champions League ticket.
Maresca took over the reins in the summer, halfway through the season he had led Chelsea to 2nd place in the Premier League. Finally!, the Chelsea supporters and owners probably thought. Then one weak result after another has come for the London club with only three wins from the last eight Premier League games. At the weekend, Brighton narrowed the score with a 3-0 win after an anemic performance by Maresca’s Chelsea team.
Word has started to circulate that Maresca risks the same fate as the last Chelsea managers, but this time the notoriously impatient Todd Boehly apparently has a different plan.
The hyperactive transfer journalist Romano gives a status of the signals he has picked up.
-Enzo Maresca keeps repeating how the mission from Chelsea, the owners, the management, they gave him at the beginning of the season, was not the Champions League already this season, but for the next two years, then this and next season. What I can tell you is that despite the latest results, they are still convinced that Maresca is the right man for the job, Romano begins on his youtube channel.
-So there is no danger, no problems, no problems. Of course, Chelsea had a lot of problems in terms of injuries. The January market was not easy. So in general, for Chelsea, it’s not the best moment, but in the long term, Chelsea is still very happy with Maresca, very happy with the approach he has to the players, the tactical approach, the mentality he brings to the team, Romano further preaches.
-Chelsea do not change their opinion about Maresca. That’s what I can tell you now, in February. In football, we know how things can change everywhere, at any club, in any country, for any manager, in five minutes, but today Chelsea certainly see Maresca as the right manager for the present and future.”
Ruben Amorim said he was fully aware that he could “at any time” be sacked as United manager (this was before the loss to Tottenham), in London it is a completely different peace of mind for Maresca. Sounds healthy. Then we’ll see how patient Boehly actually is if the victories continue to be missed.
