{"id":4240,"date":"2026-05-05T13:59:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=4240"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:59:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:59:56","slug":"this-is-so-sad-chelsea-left-the-group-chat-fans-react-as-top-manager-effectively-rules-himself-out-of-blues-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=4240","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;This Is So Sad&#8217; &#8216;Chelsea Left The Group Chat&#8217; Fans React As Top Manager Effectively Rules Himself Out Of Blues Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><strong>Prospective Chelsea boss Cesc Fabregas has revealed that he likes to be in charge of \u201call the football decisions\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In comments that effectively rule him out of leaving Como for Stamford Bridge, Fabregas said he works well with a sporting director, but he is the one making choices on signings and all other aspects of the team:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI take all the football decisions. The sporting director, he\u2019s day-to-day with me and we see football the same way. The signings, we work with data, we have our scouting and stuff, but it needs to be something that I believe in. It needs to be a player that I\u2019m convinced about. I\u2019m so happy and lucky that we have a president that trusts me a lot and has given me the confidence to go and take all the football decisions. That, for me, is really important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Considering that Chelsea run under a very different model, where co-sporting directors Paul Winstanley and Lawrence Stewart have a great deal of authority, most supporters on X believe Fabregas is no longer a candidate to replace Liam Rosenior:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is so sad for me<\/p>\n<div class=\"sra_unit\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" id=\"block-sra\" href=\"https:\/\/chelseanews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/snack-related-articles\/dist\/css\/snack-related.min.css?230424-120159\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\"\/>\n<aside class=\"sra-group sra-related-list\">\n<h2 class=\"sra-group-head\">Most Read on Chelsea News<\/h2>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Terror de Archangel\ud83d\udc7c\u2694\ufe0f (@TerrordeArcd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TerrordeArcd\/status\/2051208514547101828?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I don\u2019t think, we will have him at Chelsea as long this blueco continues to operate as owners cos he can\u2019t have the full control of them \ud83d\ude2d\ud83e\udee9<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 It\u2019s ishaq (@its_Estavao) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/its_Estavao\/status\/2051211055473258957?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He\u2019d be stupid to join us now after what he\u2019s built.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 KhaySarkCFC\ud83d\udc99 (@Khayshawarma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Khayshawarma\/status\/2051208331616739542?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chelsea left the group chat<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cfcsimon (@Blueblood011) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Blueblood011\/status\/2051212097187418562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thats smart of him.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Prince king\u25fb\ufe0f (@PrinceE66138757) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrinceE66138757\/status\/2051209735823642806?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Who is the favourite to become the next permanent Chelsea boss?<\/h2>\n<p>Xabi Alonso is the current leading candidate at the bookmakers with odds between 13\/8 and 5\/2. Bournemouth head coach <strong>Andoni Iraola<\/strong> is second in the running, priced at 3\/1.<\/p>\n<p>Fulham boss Marco Silva is third favourite, with odds of around 4\/1 to 6\/1, with Fabregas still seen as the fourth likeliest to take the job (5\/1 to 13\/2).<\/p>\n<h2>When will a decision be made on the next manager?<\/h2>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"0fab81ce12e48a0794275e1d82449fb1\" image-id=\"1076660407\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%;\"\/><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support --><br \/>The club placed Calum McFarlane in charge until the summer to give themselves more time to assess potential candidates.<\/p>\n<p>A shortlist is currently being drawn up, with interviews expected to follow. No final decision is expected for several weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more about the Chelsea First Team Squad for 2025\/26 here<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prospective Chelsea boss Cesc Fabregas has revealed that he likes to be in charge of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4240","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\/4240","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=4240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}