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Chelsea have sacked Liam Rosenior but while that\u2019s clearly the biggest story in town it\u2019s far from the only one.<\/p>\n
There are still clicks to be mined out of the Man United managerial vacancy that technically still exists, clout to be farmed by mentioning Jurgen Klopp for no real reason, and above all else? What does this mean for Spurs.<\/p>\n
And through it all you have the Daily Express being just enormously Daily Express.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The biggest news in football this morning<\/strong>? It\u2019s all here \u2013 as ever, quite literally \u2013 in a Daily Mail<\/strong> headline.<\/p>\n John Terry says \u2018I\u2019ve not had a call\u2019 from Chelsea interim boss after being left \u2018frustrated\u2019 over caretaker job snub as Blues legend breaks silence on Liam Rosenior\u2019s sacking after just 106 DAYS<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Mediawatch can confirm we too have yet to receive a call from Chelsea interim boss, and we\u2019ve taken charge of exactly the same number of professional games of football as John Terry. It really is very frustrating.<\/p>\n It is and will remain Mediawatch\u2019s very favourite part of the Chelsea manager sacking ritual: John Terry being astonished anew that yet again he hasn\u2019t simply been instantly handed the job for being John Terry<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Mediawatch also very much enjoyed Sean Davis\u2019 withering yet unintentionally hilarious assessment of his former team-mate Liam Rosenior.<\/p>\n \u201cHe talks like he\u2019s swallowed a dictionary of long words.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n While it is an undeniably fair assessment of a manager ultimately far too performative for his own good, there is nevertheless something magnificent there about the thing that Davis means \u2013 yet also needs \u2013 is a thesaurus.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Not for the first time, a Daily Express<\/strong> headline has Mediawatch banging its head on the desk.<\/p>\n Jurgen Klopp has already revealed answer he\u2019d give Chelsea if offered job<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Do we really have to do this every time any Premier League job comes up? Apparently yes, yes we do.<\/p>\n Jurgen Klopp\u00a0has already made his stance abundantly clear about the prospect of managing\u00a0Chelsea\u00a0or any other\u00a0Premier League\u00a0club following his exit from\u00a0Liverpool\u00a0in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n He said he probably wouldn\u2019t manage anyone again, and that above all else he absolutely definitely wouldn\u2019t manage any Premier League club other than Liverpool. Absolutely nothing that\u2019s happened since he said that has given even the slightest indication he might have softened that stance.<\/p>\n We can just about tolerate bringing this up in a Lloyd Christmas \u2018so you\u2019re telling me there\u2019s a chance?\u2019 fashion about the Liverpool job, but really not sure we need to go over this every time another manager gets kicked out of some shambling Big Six operation or other.<\/p>\n Cesc Fabregas, Filipe Luis, Andoni Iraola and Diego Simeone lead the bookmakers\u2019 odds to succeed Rosenior at Stamford Bridge. One individual who doesn\u2019t appear particularly high on such lists is\u00a0Jurgen Klopp\u00a0\u2013 and for good reason.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Yes. A good and obvious and widely known reason that renders these stories entirely unnecessary.<\/p>\n The former\u00a0Liverpool manager has already outlined his stance on taking the reins at another Premier League outfit, had the board contemplated his name. After announcing his departure from Anfield, the German stressed: \u201cWhat I know definitely, I will never, ever manage a different club in England than Liverpool, 100 per cent.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n We literally all know this.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Chelsea, of course, not the only Big Six job currently up for (permanent) grabs this summer as uncertainty remains over the long-term future of Michael Carrick\u2019s qualified success as an interim with Manchester United.<\/p>\n The Express<\/strong> all over this one as well, albeit not at this point by saying Jurgen Klopp has made his position clear on the Man United job. Small mercies there, at least, but this isn\u2019t much better.<\/p>\n Luis Enrique drops biggest hint yet about taking Man Utd job to replace Michael Carrick<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Luis Enrique\u2019s big hint about Manchester United is\u2026 talking about his summer plans with his current club PSG.<\/p>\n We\u2019re just going to go right ahead and assume you don\u2019t need us to tell you the precise number of times he mentioned Manchester United or Michael Carrick when dropping his massive Manchester United hint.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Mediawatch always enjoys these headlines.<\/p>\n Liam Rosenior set to lose \u00a311m after being sacked with six years left on Chelsea deal<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n They\u2019re often sadly not from football and thus of no tangible value to us. They\u2019re more often about your golfers or tennisers and their prize money after winning whatever the big events are for your golfers or tennisers.<\/p>\n Because yes, as you\u2019ve likely already guessed, this isn\u2019t a story about break clauses or anything like that which might prevent Rosenior getting his bumper \u00a324m six-year Chelsea contract paid out in full, but a good old-fashioned right-wing whinge about millionaires having to pay tax.<\/p>\n The choice of \u2018lose\u2019 in that headline really is so revealing.<\/p>\n The Express<\/strong> go on to be furious about this, nominally on Rosenior\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n Given that this figure surpasses \u00a3125,140, Rosenior would face a tax rate of 45 per cent, meaning a staggering \u00a310.7m would theoretically be owed to HMRC.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Of course, they are not at all actually angry about Rosenior specifically having to pay this. Let\u2019s face it, the amount he\u2019s getting paid for the work he\u2019s actually done easily surpasses the tabloid threshold for him to have \u2018trousered\u2019 rather than \u2018earned\u2019 or even \u2018pocketed\u2019 that cash.<\/p>\n But any chance to express goggled disbelief that millionaires have to pay tax must always be taken, even if that money was initially \u2018trousered\u2019 by a chancer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n You\u2019d think if there were one outlet that didn\u2019t have to try and generate a spurious local angle to news of Chelsea sacking another Chelsea manager at Chelsea, it would be football.london<\/strong>. You know, what with Chelsea still very much being in London and still just about technically a football club.<\/p>\n But no. For there is this:<\/p>\n How Liam Rosenior\u2019s Chelsea exit will impact Tottenham\u2019s relegation battle<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n If your initial reaction is \u201cProbably not that much\u201d then you would largely be right. Largely.<\/p>\n But not entirely. There are still some pretty major impacts.<\/p>\n Chelsea have to play Nottingham Forest. They aren\u2019t really in the relegation battle any more, but fine.<\/p>\n Chelsea do also have to play Tottenham. At Stamford Bridge. Are Chelsea more or less likely to win a fixture they pretty much always win anyway under an interim manager against a relegation-haunted Spurs than they would have been under Rosenior? Mediawatch is genuinely unsure here, but we\u2019re certainly not seeing a massive impact and the words \u201cDoctor\u201d and \u201cTottenham\u201d are flashing away in our heads in all neon.<\/p>\n The biggest impact really might<\/em> be that Chelsea might<\/em> be a tiny bit more likely to beat Leeds in the FA Cup final now their players might<\/em> not be in open revolt any more. If that happens then Spurs\u2019 trip for their annual defeat at Stamford Bridge will have to move from FA Cup final weekend.<\/p>\n It is in every way the very deepest of impacts.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n
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