{"id":556,"date":"2026-04-24T20:57:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=556"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:57:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:57:46","slug":"the-5-main-contenders-to-become-the-next-chelsea-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Main Contenders To Become The Next Chelsea Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<nav class=\"c-post-article-pagination\"><span class=\"c-post-pagination c-post-pagination--next\">Next page \u00bb<\/span><\/nav>\n<p><strong>Chelsea announced on Wednesday afternoon that they had sacked Liam Rosenior less than four months after his arrival back in January.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Calum McFarlane will take charge on an interim basis until the summer, with the club expected to appoint a permanent head coach at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Five contenders have already been named to replace Rosenior, but some are more realistic appointments than others.<\/p>\n<p>Press the next page as we rank (out of 5) the likelihood of these candidates becoming Chelsea\u2019s next manager.<\/p>\n<nav class=\"c-post-article-pagination\"><span class=\"c-post-pagination c-post-pagination--next\">Next page \u00bb<\/span><\/nav>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next page \u00bb Chelsea announced on Wednesday afternoon that they had sacked Liam Rosenior less&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","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\/556","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=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}