Maresca has cottoned onto Tidal change👇

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"The Champions League Final showed the domination of a young team, capable of great technical football expressed with an extraordinary tempo, energy, pressing and attacking talent. Luis Enrique has built a spectacular PSG and, in my own small way, I am trying to do the same at Chelsea,”

The way to go
Not sure he's the one to take us to that next level though.

Italy has always been more about tactical footy than speed or power, they invented cattenacio, more defensive and slower burn. The Italians like it that way and for that to change they would need a referendum

I hope Italian football never loses this cultural identity.

The day every football culture promotes the same values & every team plays a different interpretation of the same style is the day I'll finally be able to let go of football.

It is going that way, football now feels like watching bots on the pitch devoid of individualism & expression, but fortunately there's still a bit of variety to keep me engaged.

Even young players get tired. PSG have a huge advantage because they win their league early enough to rest them in between the latter stage CL matches.

Safe to say that if the sane players played in the PL,la liga or even Serie A, they wouldn't be able to keep up the same energy levels and would have to do more game management. Dembele for example would probably have got injured like at Barca

It's an interesting development over the last 5 years or so, and I am keen to see how it changes the mindset of players moving out of that age bracket and how clubs deal with them.

You can see with the likes of Rashford that despite their talent, there isnt necessarily anywhere for them to go because they're that bit older, they've lost that hunger and the willingness to work hard and you then question whether they are worth that big pay packet. Rashford was linked with PSG last summer. Not sure i could see him in that side making a token effort at putting in the hard yards.

A lot of managers are much more willing to risk some younger talent and their chairman are delighted that its the cheaper young buck not the expensive Rolls Royce that the manager prefers. There is always a place for the more experienced players but i think the place for them in a squad is decreasing which means there are more of them looking for teams than are necessarily out there to take them, expect of short term loan basis

United are probably the best example of getting this all wrong and have been lumbered with the wrong type of expensive player over the years, and the only way out is to run down their deals.