A club increasingly depicted as a soulless business operation are currently seeking to appoint as manager a soulful man admired for his warmth and emotional intelligence. Liam Rosenior to Chelsea seems a risk, a contrast of personalities, a relationship doomed to failure in many eyes.
But anyone who knows Rosenior knows he relishes a challenge, gets on with people from dressing room to boardroom and that he has been craving this chance to work in the Champions League. The inexperienced Rosenior, 41, will give everything to make this work.
