What annoys me about situations like the Enzo Maresca one is that you will always see people fighting corners on one side, they rarely try to see both sides of a story. There are always two sides to a story. And whatever has happened with Enzo Maresca at Chelsea, will always be dependent on who is telling you what’s happened.
Chelsea will have their version of events, Maresca will have his. And many others will have different versions again somewhere in between.
I’ve never understood the Chelsea fan obsession with Maresca, anyone would have thought he had a Jose Mourinho effect at our club. He didn’t. He’s far from the worst manager we’ve ever had, but he’s certainly not close to the best either. The stanning of him and the revisionism is just weird. Yes, he helped us win the Club World Cup, and some things he did at Chelsea were good. But let’s not forget that under Maresca, on the whole, things were not that great either. He lost some of the dressing room as well, and fell out with certain people at the club, Bernardo Cueva being one of them I know about that has not been reported. He’s far from a saint. He was also clearly having his head turned by City and wanting to go there whilst he was still Chelsea head coach. So, Maresca did some good things at our club, but was also needs to take some blame for the toxicity that we experienced.
On the other side of that, if you ask Maresca, he will tell you he was treated poorly by Chelsea, and maybe he was to an extent. He earned a right really to get more of a say in football operations at the club. We all know that we needed a defensive revamp, something Maresca asked for and got ignored. And now look, Xabi Alonso is coming in and saying the same thing, and he is excepted to have that actioned. So Maresca certainly has some basis to feel aggrieved too. Maresca I do not think is a bad person at all, I think he’s probably just opinionated, and there’s nothing wrong with that. He was no longer their ‘yes man’.
There are ALWAYS two sides to a story, and people out there fighting a particular corner and only seeing tunnel vision on it right now, need to remember this.
All this chatter of Maresca going to Man City and what he did or didn’t do at Chelsea, and what Chelsea did or didn’t do, I literally couldn’t care less anymore. He’s gone, we’ve got Alonso in, we got two games left this season and a huge summer ahead. That’s where my focus is and all I care about right now. Maresca can do whatever he wants, I’m not interested anymore. No point creating more fan division, is there?