9 minutes ago, forbzy said:

Totally agree. Still no shirt sponsor too. This article sums it up well:

ESPN.com

Don't expect Chelsea to hire an elite coach after Maresca...

Chelsea used to demand success, hiring the world's best coaches to deliver results. Enzo Maresca's departure reveals that that's no longer the case.

This is no longer the same club. I am just grateful we got to witness some great years under Roman.

It's a very well written article and, unfortunately, very clear.

5 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

This to me is playing out as the alternate ending of the Gilette/Hicks fiasco at Liverpool. This that we are now living is what would have happened if they hadn't sold up.

Yep, unless in the summer when Rosenior has taken us to 9th Clearlake finally grow some balls and ask Eghbali why him and his board of losers have pissed their investment down the drain.

Edited January 1Jan 1 by timetowaste

These are real quotes by our new manager:

“I want them (his players) to feel like they are children"

"No rules or boundaries"

Following a seventh-place finish and a qualification spot for the Conference League with the youngest team in Europe’s top-five leagues, many are curious about Rosenior’s approach to the game. Outside of a daily 10.30am meeting, scheduling is loose. Coaching staff opt against setting specific times for training, instead waiting for the playing squad to feel at their most relaxed and ready following pre-activation and warm-up routines. Strasbourg players are not given curfew times, nor fines for arriving late.

"If you set rules and boundaries on people and they break those rules and boundaries, you create conflict in your group. So for me, the way we work here is we don’t have set times. It might be different at a different club with a different culture, but that’s what works here. And that’s the way that we work.”

“If you have multicultural staff, you improve your players so much quicker,”

Edited January 1Jan 1 by OriginalS

I don't even know what to say 🤣

8 minutes ago, OriginalS said:

These are real quotes by our new manager:

“I want them (his players) to feel like they are children"

"No rules or boundaries"

Following a seventh-place finish and a qualification spot for the Conference League with the youngest team in Europe’s top-five leagues, many are curious about Rosenior’s approach to the game. Outside of a daily 10.30am meeting, scheduling is loose. Coaching staff opt against setting specific times for training, instead waiting for the playing squad to feel at their most relaxed and ready following pre-activation and warm-up routines. Strasbourg players are not given curfew times, nor fines for arriving late.

"If you set rules and boundaries on people and they break those rules and boundaries, you create conflict in your group. So for me, the way we work here is we don’t have set times. It might be different at a different club with a different culture, but that’s what works here. And that’s the way that we work.”

“If you have multicultural staff, you improve your players so much quicker,”

Absolute word salad. It's like if they did an episode of The Office where David Brent managed the five a side team.

4 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

Absolute word salad. It's like if they did an episode of The Office where David Brent managed the five a side team.

Very David Brent!

At least he'll have his excuses ready when the results go south "not enough asians in the staff"

15 minutes ago, OriginalS said:

These are real quotes by our new manager:

“I want them (his players) to feel like they are children"

"No rules or boundaries"

Following a seventh-place finish and a qualification spot for the Conference League with the youngest team in Europe’s top-five leagues, many are curious about Rosenior’s approach to the game. Outside of a daily 10.30am meeting, scheduling is loose. Coaching staff opt against setting specific times for training, instead waiting for the playing squad to feel at their most relaxed and ready following pre-activation and warm-up routines. Strasbourg players are not given curfew times, nor fines for arriving late.

"If you set rules and boundaries on people and they break those rules and boundaries, you create conflict in your group. So for me, the way we work here is we don’t have set times. It might be different at a different club with a different culture, but that’s what works here. And that’s the way that we work.”

“If you have multicultural staff, you improve your players so much quicker,”

What an absolute prat!

It is unofficially done.

Rosenior has agreed terms with BlueCo over a new contract to take control of being the puppet on the Chelsea bench.

Currently being determined which staff leave with him from Strasbourg to Chelsea, which ones leave Chelsea. Not expected to take too long to sort that out.

The delay will be how quickly they can get Eric Ramsey to leave Minnesota to join the BlueCo profits machine.

Feels like the Garnacho signing really, you know ahead of time it won’t work out, but there’s nothing you can do.

Just a case of going through the motions, and like with Garnacho they’ll be a sprinkle of fans that try to get behind it somehow; mental gymnastics.

Some really really dark times incoming, I suspect.

Remember this guy has never managed a top level, high pressure game. His experiences against PSG would have been similar to Phil Parkinson's Wrexham against us. Nothing to lose. Liam Rosenior at Anfield, Emirates, a cauldron like the Stadium of Light, do me a favour.

In the dug out properly for Charlton I reckon. This would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic.

I would have a similar level of optimism if we'd appointed Jack Wilshere or Robbie Savage.

Well as long as they put him on a 5 year contract!

The biggest concern with this appointment, if it does go ahead, regardless of his woefully under qualified CV is the regression we’ll see of Robert Sanchez, if Rosenior has him playing how he’s had Penders playing all season.

29 minutes ago, Term_X said:

Feels like the Garnacho signing really, you know ahead of time it won’t work out, but there’s nothing you can do.

Just a case of going through the motions, and like with Garnacho they’ll be a sprinkle of fans that try to get behind it somehow; mental gymnastics.

It's Potter all over again.

3 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

It's Potter all over again.

Potter had tons of experience compared to Rosenior ..... and look how that turned out LOL

5 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

It's Potter all over again.

I think it was in part the disaster over Potter's appointment that led to Boehly losing his control. Perhaps the same will happen to Eghbali once this one goes South.

5 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

It's Potter all over again.

Yeah this is much worse than Potter, he at least showed he could be a decent premier league manager, Rosenior is a mediocre Ligue 1 manager.

1 hour ago, OriginalS said:

These are real quotes by our new manager:

“I want them (his players) to feel like they are children"

"No rules or boundaries"

Following a seventh-place finish and a qualification spot for the Conference League with the youngest team in Europe’s top-five leagues, many are curious about Rosenior’s approach to the game. Outside of a daily 10.30am meeting, scheduling is loose. Coaching staff opt against setting specific times for training, instead waiting for the playing squad to feel at their most relaxed and ready following pre-activation and warm-up routines. Strasbourg players are not given curfew times, nor fines for arriving late.

"If you set rules and boundaries on people and they break those rules and boundaries, you create conflict in your group. So for me, the way we work here is we don’t have set times. It might be different at a different club with a different culture, but that’s what works here. And that’s the way that we work.”

“If you have multicultural staff, you improve your players so much quicker,”

We are so screwed 😂😂😂

4 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

Yeah this is much worse than Potter, he at least showed he could be a decent premier league manager, Rosenior is a mediocre Ligue 1 manager.

I meant in terms of the feeling. You already know it's going to be disaster, we'll probably barely get a single win until the end of the season and probably finish with no European football at all. Much more catastrophic this time around though because we just can't afford to be outside of Europe next season.

14 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

It's Potter all over again.

It’s far far worse not even the same ball park as Potter.

9 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

I meant in terms of the feeling. You already know it's going to be disaster, we'll probably barely get a single win until the end of the season and probably finish with no European football at all. Much more catastrophic this time around though because we just can't afford to be outside of Europe next season.

At the time I thought it might work out, but what made the Potter appointment sh*t at the time was because it meant Tuchel was going. What makes this one crazy is that if you liked or loathed Maresca, nobody wants this Rosenior appointment. No Chelsea fans I know personally, nobody on here, not even anyone on social media thinks this is a good idea.

1 hour ago, forbzy said:

Totally agree. Still no shirt sponsor too. This article sums it up well:

ESPN.com

Don't expect Chelsea to hire an elite coach after Maresca...

Chelsea used to demand success, hiring the world's best coaches to deliver results. Enzo Maresca's departure reveals that that's no longer the case.

This is no longer the same club. I am just grateful we got to witness some great years under Roman.

Man, this is one of the most depressing things I've read in a long while

11 minutes ago, El regreso said:

It’s far far worse not even the same ball park as Potter.

We were awful under Potter, I can't imagine it can be that much worse 🤣

Not going to lie though, I was absolutely gutted when we lost Tuchel, and thought Poch was a big mistake. Not massively fussed on losing Maresca.

2 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

At the time I thought it might work out, but what made the Potter appointment sh*t at the time was because it meant Tuchel was going. What makes this one crazy is that if you liked or loathed Maresca, nobody wants this Rosenior appointment. No Chelsea fans I know personally, nobody on here, not even anyone on social media thinks this is a good idea.

Genuinely expecting him to be in and gone within 3 months. I would love to be wrong but I think this guy is so far out of his depth that I am dreading the hammering we are going to be getting on a regular basis. Plus, these players will suss this guy out within two weeks.

22 minutes ago, blizeH said:

We were awful under Potter, I can't imagine it can be that much worse 🤣

Not going to lie though, I was absolutely gutted when we lost Tuchel, and thought Poch was a big mistake. Not massively fussed on losing Maresca.

I was gutted when we lost Tommy Docherty, and more gutted when he joined Rotherham. Then we had Dave Sexton, who managed for a never to be seen again 7 years. It’s been a revolving door since then and Maresca’s 18 months is probably the average tenure in the last 50 years. Hard to get attached to any of them!

I actually feel bad for keep going in on Rosenior, but SURELY there must be people in the owners' ear saying how terribly this appointment will go down? He's getting the piss taken out of him massively, and that doesn't include the genuine anger some people have.

Also, the senior players must surely be able to push back. Why the f**k would Palmer, James, Fernandez and Caicedo want to be managed by a guy who has never done anything as a player (with all due respect to the EFL Trophy he won with Bristol Rovers) and currently has done nothing as a manager. They didn't move here to be at club happy with mediocrity.

I'm in genuine disbelief that this is happening, it feels like a bad dream.