reports<\/a> Blues players are \u201cbeing given indications\u201d that Rosenior is \u201cthe favourite\u201d to land the vacant position. <\/p>\nThe publication asserted that \u201cseveral key players have discussed the possibility of Rosenior taking over, having been given indications that he was the favourite to succeed Maresca\u201d. <\/p>\n
The Italian left Chelsea on Thursday with the team struggling in fifth after just one win in their last seven Premier League matches, and after he reportedly held talks with Manchester City about succeeding Pep Guardiola.<\/p>\n
Strasbourg are owned by Chelsea\u2019s parent company BlueCo, and Rosenior impressed in his first season at the club by guiding the side to a seventh-placed finish. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t take notice. If you\u2019re a manager and you take notice of what\u2019s being said in the media, you will probably go crazy,\u201d Rosenior said ahead of Saturday\u2019s trip to Nice in Ligue 1.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy job is here. I love this club. I\u2019m working to win the game tomorrow. <\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, I\u2019m aware that there\u2019s speculation, but I think that\u2019s a reflection on the great work that everybody\u2019s done at this football club.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, when pressed by a journalist on whether or not he would still be at Strasbourg in six months\u2019 time, Rosenior was more vague.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou cannot guarantee anything in life. In terms of interest from other clubs, I\u2019ve had a lot of interest, a lot of approaches that I have always been open with the club about,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy focus is always on the job that I am doing. But to say I\u2019m definitely going to be somewhere or definitely going to do something, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s right because in life, things happen.\u201d <\/p>\n
City and Tottenham held to draws | 01:49<\/p>\n
Rosenior began his full-time managerial career at Hull City in November 2022, with the team 21st in the Championship, having lost 10 of their first 18 matches.<\/p>\n
They lost only six more that season as he guided them to a 15th-placed finish, improving on that the following season when they came seventh. <\/p>\n
He then moved to Strasbourg and guided them into Europe in his first season. This campaign, they are currently seventh in Ligue 1 and top of the Europa Conference League group stage. <\/p>\n
GUARDIOLA REAFFIRMS CITY CONTRACT AS MARESCA SPECULATION BUILDS<\/p>\n
Pep Guardiola has reiterated his desire to stay on at Manchester City despite reports that former Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca has held talks about potentially taking over at the Etihad.<\/p>\n
The long-serving City manager, 54, said last month he intended to see out his contract at City, which runs until the end of the 2026\/27 season.<\/p>\n
That followed speculation City had identified Maresca, a former assistant of Guardiola\u2019s, as a possible successor to the Spaniard should he decide to step down at the end of this season.<\/p>\n
Maresca has since parted company with Chelsea — leaving Stamford Bridge on New Year\u2019s Day. It is understood the Italian\u2019s exit came after he informed the club he had held talks with City.<\/p>\n
Guardiola, who will celebrate the 10th anniversary of his appointment this year, said: \u201cThe only (thing) I can say is that Chelsea, I think, from my point of view, lose an incredible, incredible manager, incredible person.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut this (is a) decision from the hierarchy from Chelsea, so (I have) nothing to say.\u201d <\/p>\n
Liverpool held to dull draw with Leeds | 01:07<\/p>\n
Guardiola, who has won six Premier League titles with City, added: \u201cI have a contract. I said a thousand million times. It\u2019s 10 years here, I will leave one day but I have a contract. I\u2019m happy. I want to fight with my team.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe hierarchy respect me, that was proved last season with what happened in this club — we didn\u2019t win one game in two, three months. They supported me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have one more year\u2019s contract. I like to be here, so we will see, you will see.\u201d Title-chasing City dropped two points in an entertaining 0-0 draw at Sunderland on Thursday, which left them four points behind Premier League leaders Arsenal at the halfway stage of the season.<\/p>\n
Guardiola\u2019s men host Chelsea on Sunday and the City boss admits he is not sure what to expect.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t talk much if we don\u2019t know what the opponent\u2019s going to be like because we don\u2019t know which manager will be sitting (on the bench),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen so no concern (about that). Think about yourself, what you have to do. That\u2019s going to help us in two tough games like Chelsea and Brighton.\u201d Chelsea said Friday that under-21s head coach Calum McFarlane would take interim charge of the team against City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea players reportedly \u201cexpect\u201d Strasbourg coach Liam Rosenior to be named the club\u2019s new manager following Enzo Maresca\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,208013,208018,39453,2057,1119,3738,2592,6243,2105,27507,208017,34848,208015,11999,24938,1614,208016,85,208014,2062],"class_list":["post-387842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-coach-hunt","tag-crystal-palace-fc-ltd","tag-enzo-maresca","tag-europe","tag-football-club","tag-fox-sports","tag-france","tag-french-club","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-group-stage","tag-hull-city-association-football-club","tag-justin-setterfield","tag-liam-rosenior","tag-manchester-city-football-club","tag-pep-guardiola","tag-premier-league","tag-racing-club-de-strasbourg-alsace","tag-sports","tag-stade-de-la-meinau","tag-western-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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