tavin ᶜʳᶠ ³ LOUD CAMPEÃ MUNDIAL

For all of Maresca's decent results at Chelsea — he f*cking destroys individualism. Malo Gusto went from one of the best RBs in Europe under Poch, bombing up and down the RHS, only to be played as a de facto midfielder by Maresca. He's ruined his career. Enzo Fernandez was more often than not platformed as a CM, which constantly cost the team in midfield because of his lack of legs, physicality and general defensive attributes. Joao Pedro was platformed either as a number 10 or as a false 9, with Maresca claiming he wasn't a player who could score a lot of goals. He specifically requested the signings of his former Man City academy players Jamie Gittens and Liam Delap — two players requiring massive space to thrive — for a playing style that aims to dominate possession and pin opposition deep. And this is an interesting one but he was one of the biggest backers of signing Alejandro Garnacho within the club, only to platform him as a 1v1 touchline hugging winger. For extra info, AG was the player with the worst dribble completion percentage of any attacker in the PL the season prior. He's also a player that clearly thrives in space and/or close to goal. He's also exceptionally stubborn and is big on favouritism. At Chelsea he was never once interested in platforming his players to their strengths. He always attempted to shoehorn the players into his style of play, no matter what. He was also known as a poor man-manager, especially for players that was outside his first 13-14 players and was horrible for players struggling with bad confidence — such as Jamie Gittens, Joao Pedro, Cole Palmer etc. His failure to provide any kind of opportunity for Josh Acheampong is looking worse by the day — especially considering his complaints about Chelsea's lack of defenders. He also refused to play Jorrel Hato last season in what seemed more like a power play towards the board than anything else — rather wanting to run Cucurella into the ground by starting him in every single match. Funnily enough, despite watching Enzo Fernandez struggle in CM for 18 months, he demanded his new club break the english transfer record to sign him again. Despite watching Malo Gusto be a complete misfit for his inside RB role, he requested Man City spend big money to be reuinted with him.