Chelsea have sacked Liam Rosenior just three months after installing him as head coach.<\/strong><\/p>\n Rosenior arrived at Stamford Bridge in January from Strasbourg, the French club also owned by Chelsea\u2019s owners.<\/p>\n He signed a five-and-a-half-year contract but has lost his job after winning just 11 of his 23 matches at the helm.<\/p>\n Fulham boss Marco Silva is among the contenders to replace him.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Chelsea have lost five league matches in a row without scoring for the first time since 1912, and Tuesday\u2019s dismal 3-0 defeat at Brighton meant they dropped to seventh in the Premier League table \u2013 a major blow to their chances of securing a Champions League spot for next season.<\/p>\n Rosenior defended the players up to that point but turned on them after the game, stating that their performance was \u201cindefensible\u201d and \u201cunacceptable\u201d as he faced angry chants from the travelling supporters.<\/p>\n There was no way back for the former Fulham defender after that result.<\/p>\n \u201cLiam has always conducted himself with the highest integrity and professionalism following his appointment midway through the season,\u201d Chelsea said in a statament.<\/p>\n \u201cThis has not been a decision the club has taken lightly. However, recent results and performances have fallen below the necessary standards with still so much more to play for this season.\u201d<\/p>\n Calum McFarlane will take over as interim manager until the end of the season, starting with this weekend\u2019s FA Cup semi-final against Leeds.<\/p>\n McFarlane, previously the club\u2019s Under-21s boss, took caretaker charge when Enzo Maresca was sacked as manager in January. He was appointed as assistant head coach after Rosenior\u2019s arrival.<\/p>\n Rosenior\u2019s tenure was brief and troubled.<\/p>\n As well as poor results and performances, there were other problems, with vice-captain Enzo Fernandez suggesting he could leave this summer and sign for Real Madrid \u2013 comments which led to the midfielder being dropped for two matches.<\/p>\n Rosenior won just five of his 13 league games in charge. Four FA Cup wins were all against lower-division opposition. <\/span> Get the latest direct to your phone \u2013 follow West London Sport\u2019s WhatsApp channel<\/strong><\/p>\n Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chelsea have sacked Liam Rosenior just three months after installing him as head coach. Rosenior…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","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\/603","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=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"WhatsApp\"\/](\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6b\/WhatsApp.svg\")
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