Liam Rosenior, who arrives from affiliate Strasbourg, will be the sixth coach from 2022: all his predecessors, from Tuchel to Pochettino, left due to the little room for maneuver granted by the club
“The manager at Chelsea will be the sixth-seventh most important person in the management of the club.” A BBC analyst, in explaining the turbulent divorce from Enzo Maresca on TV, raised the curtain well on what makes Chelsea such a complicated team to coach at the moment: how little room for maneuver the manager has. Liam Rosenior, ever closer to being promoted from affiliate Strasbourg to lead the Blues, will be the sixth manager of the post-Roman Abramovich era, the one that began in May 2022 with Thomas Tuchel and in which Graham Potter, Frank Lampard, Mauricio Pochettino and most recently Enzo Maresca took over the Chelsea bench. All his predecessors left for the same reason: the little room for maneuver given to them. Even Lampard, hired to act as ferryman at the end of 2022-23 after the failure of the Potter project, had suggested involving the manager more in the advice left to the new owners: that idea fell on deaf ears.