{"id":412282,"date":"2026-04-22T20:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/412282\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T20:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:04:12","slug":"liam-rosenior-leaves-chelsea-three-and-a-half-months-into-contract-until-2032-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/412282\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Rosenior leaves Chelsea three and a half months into contract until 2032 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liam Rosenior has left Chelsea<\/a> after Tuesday\u2019s 3-0 defeat at Brighton. The head coach has gone three and a half months into a six-and-a-half-year contract after taking charge of only 23 matches.<\/p>\n

The loss at Brighton was Chelsea\u2019s fifth in a row in the Premier League<\/a> without scoring and extinguished any realistic hope of finishing in the top five spots that would guarantee Champions League qualification.<\/p>\n

Calum McFarlane, who was in caretaker charge for two games in January after Enzo Maresca\u2019s exit, will take the team for the rest of the season, starting with Sunday\u2019s FA Cup semi-final against Leeds. Chelsea want Rosenior\u2019s permanent successor to have top-level experience.<\/p>\n

Chelsea said in confirming they had \u201cparted company\u201d with Rosenior: \u201cLiam has always conducted himself with the highest integrity and professionalism following his appointment midway through the season. This has not been a decision the Club has taken lightly, however recent results and performances have fallen below the necessary standards with still so much more to play for this season. Everyone at Chelsea FC wishes Liam every success in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

In recent weeks Rosenior had also overseen an 8-2 aggregate defeat by Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League. The fans have turned on him and the owners, BlueCo, and Rosenior was highly critical of his players after the game at Brighton. \u201cThat was unacceptable in every aspect of the game,\u201d he said. \u201cUnacceptable in the attitude. I keep coming out and defending the players, but that\u2019s unacceptable tonight. Something needs to change drastically right here, right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The change, it quickly turned out, was to be his exit. He joined from Chelsea\u2019s partner club Strasbourg in January and a positive start of six wins in seven matches, including victory at Napoli in the Champions League, has given way to Chelsea losing five successive league games without scoring for the first time since 1912.<\/p>\n

Rosenior spoke to the sporting leadership team on Wednesday to offer his thoughts on how to get the season back on track but they were not persuaded to keep him. There has been some sympathy within Chelsea for Rosenior\u2019s plight. He has not had a preseason and at Brighton was without Cole Palmer, Reece James, Jo\u00e3o Pedro, Levi Colwill, Jamie Gittens and Est\u00eav\u00e3o Willian, who has been ruled out for the season with a hamstring injury, leaving the Brazil winger likely to miss the World Cup.<\/p>\n

There is a view that Rosenior inherited a difficult situation and there are figures within Chelsea who were desperate for the Englishman to succeed. \u2013 Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Rosenior has left Chelsea after Tuesday\u2019s 3-0 defeat at Brighton. The head coach has gone three and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18921,61,60,1102,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-412282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-chelsea-fc","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-premier-league","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}