{"id":624391,"date":"2026-04-22T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/624391\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:00:08","slug":"liam-rosenior-sacked-chelsea-owners-have-built-monument-to-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/624391\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Rosenior sacked: Chelsea owners have built monument to decline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rosenior’s dismissal may solve one problem, but those in Chelsea<\/a>‘s boardroom must take the major share of the blame for a club that looks increasingly out of control.<\/p>\n

Chelsea<\/a>‘s recent losses eclipsed Manchester City<\/a>‘s \u00a3197.5m deficit in 2011, despite bringing in \u00a3490.9m in revenue, which the club says is the second highest total in its history.<\/p>\n

Since the current ownership took control in 2022, Chelsea<\/a> have spent around \u00a31.5bn on players, focusing on securing a raft of younger players on long-term contracts.<\/p>\n

In this time, they have sacked Champions League winner Tuchel at the end of their first 100 days at the helm, then his successor Graham Potter seven months later.<\/p>\n

Frank Lampard had a short second spell in charge as interim boss before former Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> manager Mauricio Pochettino took charge, leaving by mutual consent after one season.<\/p>\n

Enzo Maresca took over, but was sacked in January, less than six months after winning the Club World Cup to add to the Uefa Conference League.<\/p>\n

If the final straw for Rosenior was criticism of his players, Maresca’s departure came amid friction with Chelsea<\/a>‘s hierarchy, stunning key figures at the club after a 2-0 win against Everton<\/a> in December by stating “many people” had made it his “worst 48 hours” since joining the club.<\/p>\n

Cryptic, perhaps, but the beginning of the end for the Italian, as those in charge at Chelsea<\/a> took a dim view of his public expression of discontent.<\/p>\n

Those with knowledge of Maresca’s views, though, said he had grown unhappy at a multitude of factors, including encouragement over which players should start and which substitutions should be made during matches.<\/p>\n

It led to the Rosenior experiment, which backfired on BlueCo, who may reflect on the number of managers hired and fired during their tenure and finally think: “It’s not them. It’s us.”<\/p>\n

Former Chelsea<\/a> winger Pat Nevin told BBC Radio 5 Live: “You would have to be a bit simple to be surprised at the situation with all the evidence in front of you.<\/p>\n

“This is four seasons the new ownership has been in. This is manager number six. When you change it that amount of times, you have to ask the question – is the problem really the manager?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rosenior’s dismissal may solve one problem, but those in Chelsea‘s boardroom must take the major share of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-624391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624391","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=624391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}