Another point to raise on them.
How much research dud they put in to Maresca? How detailed were their talks with him on how he wanted to play, where he saw our strengths and weaknesses for his system?
Maresca has been fairly consistent sticking with his formation, his tactics. Stubbornly so in some cases.
We heard a bit about how he could get the best out of Enzo Fernandez, but was he asked what he needed our wingers to do? Where he saw Cole Palmer play? What he needed from the full backs etc?
Because, when you look at who we already had signed, and then went on to sign after Maresca came in, how did we help him?
Did we give him a ball playing goalkeeper? No, and both Maresca and Leicester fans said this was a big deal. We left him with Sanchez.
How about fullbacks that can invert in to the midfield or number 10? We had Cucu before he came in, and an frequently injured James, plus Gusto who has proven he cannot do that job.
Who did we add? Veiga, slow as Disasi and unable to invert?
Palmer moved to 10 because Maresca wants more defensive work from his wide men than Poch did. Has nullified our best player, and sidelined Nkunku and Carney.
On top of that we added Felix who Maresca had no use for. And had we not secured the deadline day loan of Sancho we would now have only Neto and Madueke (and George I guess) who is willing to play wide.
Then there is the pre maresca issue, a top striker to relegate Nico to the bench. Still nada on that.
Honestly with big lumps like Veiga, Disasi, Tosin etc as options we should have appointed Sean Dyche. He would have played Palmer in his correct role at least.
