Former Liverpool centre back Jamie Carragher has dropped his verdict on the Chelsea manager situation that is unfolding.
As expected now, Liam Rosenior is looking like he will be in charge at Chelsea for their next game against Fulham on Wednesday night.
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It’s one of the worst kept secrets this week after Chelsea parted ways with head coach Enzo Maresca. It looks like it’s always been Rosenior who was going to replace him and personally, I don’t believe that there was even ever any other candidate.
We had alternative names linked by the media but let’s be real here, if Rosenior is going to be announced by Chelsea in the next day or two, then it was always advanced and it was only ever him being seriously looked at.
Carragher underwhelmed by Rosenior
‘I was a big fan of Enzo Maresca as a manager,’ Carragher said on Sky Sports. ‘When he came up against some of the biggest managers in this league, he more than held his own.
‘But I could see this coming: you can’t start speaking out of turn at any club, but especially Chelsea who have so many sporting directors.
‘Now Maresca’s gone, the focus will be on the club and the ownership. I’ve been quite critical of the way they’ve gone about it over the last three-and-a-half years.
‘If you look at the timeline of managers: they inherited Thomas Tuchel, a Champions League-winning manager. It now looks like they’re going to inherit Liam Rosenior, who has managed Derby, Hull and Strasbourg.
‘It’s a great opportunity for him, but Chelsea Football Club and their supporters are not used to those appointments.
‘They are used to Jose Mourinho, Guus Hiddink, Antonio Conte – big-name managers coming to make a huge impact on their club. I don’t see Rosenior doing that.
‘His target will be to make sure they get into the Champions League next season and they’re more than capable of doing that. We expect it to be five Premier League teams [that qualify for the Champions League] as it was last season.
‘But I don’t think it’s an appointment that is going to put Chelsea on to win a Premier League title or a Champions League trophy, and that’s what Chelsea should be aspiring for and that’s what the supporters have been used to over the last 20 years.
‘That’s not a lack of respect of a criticism for Liam Rosenior, he’s still a young man and he’s on a journey to be a top coach one day.
‘For me, it’s just a job that’s probably going to come too early to have the success that Chelsea as a football club should expect.’
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I hate it when a young manager get these kinds of criticism, they always use Guardiola as the measuring stick, and rightly so cos I see him dominating Sir Alex Ferguson tactically in any EPL game. But Pep was an U21 manager at FC Barcelona. He got the Barce job partly because they believed he could deliver. Barce had WC players. He moved to Bayern then City. Chelsea won the league that season but good squad building and 6 league titles (including 4 in a row)
I hate it when a young manager get these kinds of criticism, they always use Guardiola as the measuring stick, and rightly so cos I see him dominating Sir Alex Ferguson tactically in any EPL game. But Pep was an U21 manager at FC Barcelona. He got the Barce job partly because they believed he could deliver. Barce had WC players. He moved to Bayern then City. Chelsea won the league that season but good squad building and 6 league titles (including 4 in a row)