{"id":674571,"date":"2026-01-05T03:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/674571\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T03:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:10:11","slug":"liam-rosenior-arrives-in-london-to-discuss-taking-over-as-chelsea-manager-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/674571\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Rosenior arrives in London to discuss taking over as Chelsea manager | Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Chelsea are closing in on the appointment of Liam Rosenior after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/strasbourg\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strasbourg<\/a> manager flew to London to hold talks over the role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The 41-year-old is due to meet with the west London club on Monday and it is expected that discussions will end with him agreeing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jan\/01\/enzo-maresca-leaves-chelsea-breakdown-relations\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replace Enzo Maresca<\/a>, who left Stamford Bridge in acrimonious circumstances earlier this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Rosenior quickly emerged as the favourite for the job after Maresca\u2019s exit but the main obstacle that had to be overcome was that BlueCo, the investment vehicle that owns both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/chelsea\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelsea<\/a> and Strasbourg, had to be sensitive to the needs of both clubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">BlueCo\u2019s leaders did not want to meet with Rosenior, who boarded a flight from France on Sunday, before Strasbourg had faced Nice in Ligue 1 on Saturday. The former Hull City manager was accompanied by \u00adStrasbourg\u2019s president, Marc Keller, and sporting director, David Weir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Chelsea\u2019s board and sporting directors are big fans of Rosenior. It remains to be seen if he is installed in time for the Premier League side\u2019s trip to Fulham on Wednesday. Chelsea\u2019s Under-21s coach, Calum McFarlane, was in interim charge for Sunday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jan\/04\/manchester-city-chelsea-premier-league-match-report\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1-1 draw with Manchester City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Rosenior was placed on a small shortlist after Maresca parted \u00adcompany with Chelsea. Porto\u2019s \u00adFrancesco Farioli is admired and there was also interest in Filipe Lu\u00eds of Flamengo. Lu\u00eds led \u00adFlamengo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/jun\/20\/flamengo-chelsea-club-world-cup-match-report\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to victory against Chelsea<\/a> at last summer\u2019s Club World Cup. The Brazilian also played for the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">BlueCo are keen to find a quality replacement for Rosenior at Strasbourg. Filipe Coelho and Jean-Marc Kuentz are expected to take interim charge. It is understood that the former Wolves manager Gary O\u2019Neil is a contender to take over on a permanent basis. Minnesota United\u2019s Eric Ramsay has been monitored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea are closing in on the appointment of Liam Rosenior after the Strasbourg manager flew to London to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-674571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115840301375402077","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}