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The 41-year-old lasted less than four months at Stamford Bridge before his dismissal, and now moves back to French football having previously worked with Strasbourg prior to the Chelsea job. He replaces Antoine Kombouare at Paris FC after the club finished 11th in Ligue 1 last season.<\/span><\/p>\n Paris FC are owned by the Arnault family, with Red Bull holding a minority stake in the club, and have made clear their ambitions to push on from last season’s mid-table finish. The takeover, completed last year, marked the club’s return to the Paris top-flight picture for the first time in decades, backed by significant financial investment aimed at building a squad capable of competing more consistently in Ligue 1.<\/span><\/p>\n In a statement, the club said Rosenior was appointed because of his “wealth of experience at the highest level”, his ability to nurture young talent and his commitment to “attractive and attacking football”.<\/span><\/p>\n Rosenior had taken over at Chelsea in January, replacing Enzo Maresca after the Italian’s move to Manchester City followed a breakdown in his relationship with the club hierarchy. An encouraging start to his Stamford Bridge tenure quickly unravelled, however, and Rosenior lost each of his final five Premier League matches in charge, with Chelsea failing to score in any of them, leaving his position untenable heading into the new season.<\/span><\/p>\n Despite that difficult ending, Rosenior remains well regarded for his work at Chelsea’s sister club Strasbourg, who finished seventh in 2024-25 and qualified for the Uefa Conference League fielding the youngest squad among Europe’s top five leagues.<\/span><\/p>\n His coaching career began with Brighton’s Under-23s before a move to Derby County, initially as Wayne Rooney’s assistant before stepping up to interim first-team charge. He was appointed Hull City head coach in 2022, leading the Tigers to 15th in the Championship in his first season and seventh in his second, though he was ultimately sacked after missing out on the play-offs.<\/span><\/p>\n Chelsea have since replaced Rosenior with former Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen manager Xabi Alonso, who becomes the sixth permanent manager at Stamford Bridge in four years under the BlueCo ownership.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 41-year-old lasted less than four months at Stamford Bridge before his dismissal, and now…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}