The end of Enzo Maresca's run at Chelsea was an abrupt one, to be very honest. Yes, the team had been in bad form. But in the past, we had seen the ownership stick by the manager in similar situations. It is a lot more likely that he was shown the exit door due to the issues behind the scenes rather than the results on the pitch. Unfortunately, that's the way things seem to work at Stamford Bridge these days.
In the past, we saw a lot of managers come and go at Chelsea as well. But that was backed by constant success. Since the change in ownership, there has been very little of that. In fact, the only two trophies they won were under Maresca.
He was never handed the tools to go on and take the next step to success. Just look at the poorly thought-out summer transfer business. The likes of Jamie Gittens, Liam Delap, Facundo Buonanotte and Jorrel Hato have flopped since arriving. Alejandro Garnacho has been average at best. Joao Pedro has had his moments but is not the 25-goal-a-season striker that Chelsea needed.
The club will be hoping that the next manager is able to get the best out of this inexperienced and inconsistent, yet incredibly expensive, squad that they have assembled. Liam Rosenior is being viewed as the favourite for the role, an idea that a lot of fans will raise their eyebrows at. There are other candidates for the job as well though.
Chelsea eyeing club hero as Enzo Maresca's replacement
As reported by Fichajes, Chelsea are currently considering five candidates for the position. One of them is Cesc Fabregas.
Fabregas is currently the Como manager. It has been suggested that he is focused on the job at hand in Italy. Things can change very quickly in football, though.
He is a club hero, having won a couple of league titles with Chelsea during his time as a player. So, the fans would be able to build a connection with him as manager quite easily, something that has often lacked during the BlueCo era.
That being said, a lot of managers might not be eager to work with Chelsea. It is not just because of their lack of patience with them, but also the fact that they do not seem to have much say about how the operations are run. Most of that goes through the sporting directors, who have not shown much to convince the fans that they are capable of guiding the Blues back to the glory years.
We have been constantly promised a brighter future. But in the fourth year of this new ownership, Chelsea are yet to outdo what they were achieving under Thomas Tuchel during the Roman Abramovich era.