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IS Liam Rosenior the worst manager in Chelsea history?
That is already the view of some fed up fans at Stamford Bridge.
But according to the stats, he is not.
Rosenior has been in charge for ten Premier League matches, with five wins, two draws and three losses.
That would put Chelsea fourth in the Premier League table, behind Man Utd in first, Arsenal in second, and Man City in third.
Rosenior’s current 50 per cent win rate in the league actually ranks him the 14th-best manager of the PL era, with eight managers worse off than him.
He sits above Frank Lampard, Andre Villas-Boas, Gianluca Vialli, Ruud Gullit, Graham Potter, David Webb, Glenn Hoddle and Ian Porterfield.
In the BlueCo era, Potter, at the bottom of the list, had a win rate of just 38.7 per cent before he was sacked.
There is an argument that Rosenior has inherited a much better and more stable side than Potter did.
The team Rosenior took over are the current “world champions” and has multiple £100million-plus assets in the starting XI, compared to Potter, who still had an expensive squad, but had to contend with the maddest transfer window of all time.
By comparison, Enzo Maresca, whom Rosenior replaced, had a win rate of 59.8 per cent.
Based on this season alone, the stats show the stark difference between Rosenior’s Chelsea and Maresca’s.
In terms of attacking metrics, the Blues have improved.
But defensively, they have got pretty drastically worse.
In Maresca’s 19 games in charge, the Blues scored an average of 1.7 goals per game in the Premier League, which has increased to 1.9 under Rosenior.
They have also gone from creating 2.7 big chances per game to 3.7.
However, they’ve gone from conceding 1.1 goals per game to 1.4, and Rosenior’s side has kept just ONE clean sheet in his first ten PL games as head coach.
By comparison, Maresca’s men kept eight clean sheets in 19 games, which percentage-wise is a drop from 42 per cent to ten per cent.
Unfortunately for Rosenior, it looks as though things are going to get worse before they get better.
Chelsea face Port Vale in the FA Cup after the international break, before games against Manchester City and Manchester United.
Both Manchester clubs are above the Stamford Bridge outfit in the table based on since Rosenior took charge.
A loss to League One Port Vale would be a complete and utter calamity and ruin Chelsea’s chances of any type of silverware this season – but the idea of that happening feels far-fetched for now.
So no, Rosenior is NOT the worst manager in Chelsea’s history.
But if things don’t improve, he could well be in that conversation by the end of his tenure.
Chanting shame
CHELSEA players were subjected to homophobic chanting ahead of their defeat at Everton on Saturday.
Fans near the team bus at the Hill Dickinson Stadium over the weekend directed homophobic chants at the Blues squad as they headed towards the away changing room.
The Toffees are understood to be investigating the incident.
Chelsea have worked tirelessly over the years to tackle homophobic chanting by opposition fan bases and are pleased with the support they are given from rival clubs.
Since January 2022, the chanting of ‘r*** b**’ has been deemed a homophobic slur by the Crown Prosecution Service and anyone found guilty of singing it could be prosecuted for committing a hate crime. The FA can also charge clubs if their fans use the slur.
In July 2023 a Fulham fan was handed a three-year banning order for using the slur in a chant at a game between the London rivals.
Everton Football Club have been contacted for comment.
Terry’s politics
SOME Chelsea fans think John Terry should be given a bigger role at the club.
But that assumes the man himself wants one.
And it raises the question what might stop the Blues giving it to him.
JT went public with frustration he was not asked to be part of the caretaker first-team coaching staff between the departure of Enzo Maresca and appointment of Liam Rosenior. – The Sun
