Most embarrassing sacking of the BlueCo era at Chelsea. They literally pulled Rosenior from their sister club to manage them. They knew what they had in Rosenior, and his failure is a direct slap in the face to BlueCo.
I don’t bash Rosenior too much - that’s just an ugly situation all around.
I hope someone like Xabi or Iraola are smart enough to avoid that job.
I think they’re going to sit and wait for Nagelsmann.
Even before he was hired this piece from Oliver Kay made a pretty strong case that it was an impossible job.
One of the interesting aspects of this is Rosenior is the textbook example of the supposed benefit of the multi club model. Far more than the benefit related to acquiring and developing players, it was the off pitch talent that the feeder clubs were supposed to develop for the top club in the group that was supposed to be where the value was. The lack of any real evidence of this in the 10 years or so since City were doing it is part of what has made people rethink the value of it, but this is I think the first real high profile failure of the concept.
We’re too tight arsed to pay Slot out a year and a bit of his contract meanwhile Chelsea handing out 6 year payoffs to coaches every few months. Both clubs are a shambles at present point just on extreme opposite ends of the tight arse spectrum.
Im sure everyone heard the news of Caicedo extending his contract and recommitting himself to Chelsea. Some will even seen that underwhelming PR video Chelsea put out about it. I only just found out that the extension takes him from under contract until 2032 to 2033
Just saw a video of someone on Skysports, I think name is Neave, she’s usually pretty good but she was answering what Chelsea need to do to challenge for the league next season and her response was…
Sign James Trafford from Man City
Sign Marcos Senesi AND James Hill from Bournemouth
Sign “a left winger”
That gave them a team of
Trafford
James Senesi Colwill Cucurella
Lavia Caicedo Fernandez
Palmer Pedro LW
Which honestly looks weak even on paper then you add in that James, Colwill and Lavia can’t seem to stay healthy for more than 7 minutes at a time.
Rest of the league must be quaking in their boots.