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Chelsea weigh up sacking Liam Rosenior in bid to save season
Apr 22 2026 15:13 · By onefootball.com · 55 Reads
Alarming slump in form has prompted crisis talks on Wednesday
The Blues are considering a change in manager following the club’s 3-0 defeat at Brighton on Tuesday evening .
Standard Sport understands that meetings have been taking place on Wednesday between the club’s hierarchy as they decide on the future of the 41-year-old Englishman.
Chelsea suffered their seventh defeat in eight games on Tuesday night, which leaves the club’s hopes of qualifying for next season’s Champions League in tatters.
Rosenior criticised his players for their “unacceptable” and “indefensible” performance as he turned the blame on his squad for the first time since taking the helm in early January.
Liam Rosenior is fighting for his job
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Chelsea has planned to review Rosenior’s position at the end of the season, but an alarming collapse has prompted action at boardroom level.
It remains unclear at this stage whether Rosenior - who is less than four months into a six-and-a-half-year contract - will take charge of Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final against Leeds United at Wembley.
Rosenior’s tenure started strongly January, but Chelsea’s form has since fallen off a cliff.
A 5-2 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain in their Champions League last-16 first leg last month was the start of an alarming collapse, with Chelsea now having lost five consecutive Premier League games without scoring for the first time since November 1912, seven months after the Titanic sank.
Chelsea co-owner Behdad Eghbali and co-sporting director Paul Winstanley were among the club hierarchy in attendance at the Amex on Tuesday night as fans turned on the head coach and unfurled a banner calling for BlueCo to leave the club.
The defeat came just three days after a 1-0 loss to Manchester United that was preceded by a protest against the BlueCo consortium’s running of Chelsea. The protest took place near Stamford Bridge and more than 500 supporters were involved.
Rosenior, who has the lowest win rate of any permanent Chelsea head coach this millennium, slammed his players in his post-match media duties after the Brighton game, criticising them for losing “80 per cent of duels” and lacking “spirit” in a performance that he deemed “indefensible” and “unacceptable”.