Eighteen months from now, probably sooner, Liam Rosenior will be the coach papped with his beaming partner with a multi-million pound pay-off in his pocket.
Of course, he won’t see it that way at his unveiling as Chelsea’s new head coach. Nevertheless, this is the way of things in the world of disposable tracksuit bosses, a profession where the next big thing is entirely at the mercy of medieval owners.
Right and wrong in the court of Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali is never a matter of fact but mood. Lets see how Rosenior feels when he hands his team sheet to Eghbali for approval and it fails to get sign-off. Alejandro Garncho must start, Liam. Check the small print, paragraph one, line one, I’m the f****ing boss.
Between Rosenior and the top tier at Chelsea there are layers of management, a five-man midfield if you like, all with fancy titles, director of this, director of that, whose job it is to ensure the message from the top is properly understood. Failure, or in the case of Rosenior’s predecessor, Enzo Maresca, refusal to read the room ends only one way.
It was only 14 months ago that Ruben Amorim was in the Rosenior slot, a highly regarded young coach operating in a respected European league destined for one of the game’s platinum jobs.
At Sporting, Amorim had the time and space to operate, to impose his expertise and ultimately his authority on the role. What he did not have was any understanding of the hike in intensity at a marquee club in the world’s most demanding league.
The ownership connection with Chelsea has helped expedite Rosenior’s exit from Strasbourg. At 41, Rosenior knows the risks, after all he was himself flicked in 2024 by the owner of Hull City, Acun Ilicali, who grew frustrated at the style of play six months after handing him a new three-year contract.
Rosenior will have to be a yes man (Photo: Reuters)Ilicali wanted champagne football and was deaf to the entreaties of a coach whose job, or so he thought, was to get the best out of the players the way he thought best.
Though acclaimed by Wayne Rooney as the best coach he has worked with whilst the two were paired at Derby County, Rosenior is already hurtling towards the same tension at Stamford Bridge, a place that spat out Thomas Tuchel, Graham Potter and Mauricio Pochettino before Maresca.
Tuchel was in post just 100 days before the new BlueCo ownership dug deep into their ignorance of football to get rid. Their first appointment, Potter, lasted 200 days, Pochettino a season and Maresca left half way through his second.
The model at Chelsea is premised on a group of financial speculators exercising the principles of private equity under a multi-club scheme to turn a profit. Unlike the coaches they hire and fire, BlueCo are not in this for the love of the game but for the value they can extract via the commodification of flesh and blood.
They did not acquire Alejandro Garnacho, a 21-year-old novice, from Manchester United, or Jamie Gittens from Dortmund simply to improve the team but to sell them on at a profit. Imagine what they might get for Estevao, who they signed from Palmeiras for £20m plus add-ons in 2024 as a 17-year-old before they brought him to London last summer.
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Trophies would be nice but they are not the holy grail. Champions League qualification is the critical metric these days, for the money it guarantees and the projection it offers. But even that was not enough for Maresca because he, like Amorim, he could no longer accept the distribution of power and diminution in agency.
Rosenior believes he can make this work. Of course he does. And should he succeed he will wrestle at least some of the power from the owners by creating his own legend, but the Peps and Jurgens of this precinct are few. Only Carlo Ancelotti and Tuchel have significantly prospered since leaving Stamford Bridge. Frank Lampard, currently rebuilding his reputation at Coventry, gets an honourable mention.
Strasbourg is not Stamford Bridge. Being a good coach is not enough. Making no sound like yes when Eghbali sticks his nose in is the art Rosenior needs to perfect.
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