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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Michael Butler

Young, articulate, ambitious: why Liam Rosenior is in the frame to be Chelsea’s next manager

Liam Rosenior enjoys a win with his Strasbourg side in Ligue 1 earlier this season
Liam Rosenior (left) enjoys a win with his Strasbourg side in Ligue 1 earlier this season. Photograph: Icon Sport/Getty Images

Liam Rosenior started this decade as a columnist for the Guardian and is now the favourite to replace Enzo Maresca as manager of Chelsea. While the prospect of Barney Ronay or Jonathan Liew making the move into management is a tantalising one, Rosenior’s rise – from a youth coach at Brighton to an assistant and interim manager at Derby before full-time management at Hull City and Strasbourg – shows just how far the 41-year-old has come.

After a very respectable playing career at Bristol City, Fulham, Reading, Hull and Brighton, Rosenior earned a coaching job at the latter, managing the Seagulls’ under-23 side and supplemented that with punditry roles.

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