Former West Ham United assistant Edin Terzic has reportedly emerged as a potential replacement for Liam Rosenior at Chelsea, only weeks after holding talks with Tottenham Hotspur.
Two years on from guiding Borussia Dortmund to the brink of Champions League glory – Dani Carvajal and Vinicius Jr would fire Real Madrid to a Wembley win in June 2024 – Terzic is ready to secure a return to management.
Terzic turned his nose up at Tottenham Hotspur, per The Athletic, before the ill-fated appointment of Igor Tudor.
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Tudor only lasted a month-and-a-half, winning one of his seven matches. In contrast, Liam Rosenior’s three-and-a-half month, 23-game reign makes him look like Chelsea’s answer to Sir Alex Ferguson.
According to RMC Sport, with Rosenior now officially gone, Chelsea are the latest struggling London-based giant to consider the one-time West Ham United assistant for a return to the Premier League.
Edin Terzic reportedly a candidate to join West Ham United’s rivals Chelsea
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Rosenior’s position became untenable after Chelsea were dismantled 3-0 by Brighton and Hove Albion on Tuesday. The only thing more humiliating than the scoreline was the chants aimed towards Rosenior by a jubilant home support; ‘one of our own’, they warbled ironically in the direction of a man who ended his playing career with the Seagulls in 2018.
RMC claim that Terzic is one of the candidates to take his place. The 43-year-old German is ‘expected to join a [new] club soon’, though Chelsea are not the only interested party.
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Terzic is reportedly the preferred appointment of Athletic Bilbao; the historic La Liga outfit who will say goodbye to the long-serving Ernesto Valverde at the end of the current campaign.
Terzic’s West Ham past is unlikely to stand in his way of a move to Stamford Bridge – he worked alongside Slaven Bilic from 2015 to 2017 – but after two years out of the game, one suspects Terzic will put extra emphasis on finding the right job rather than merely the biggest one available.
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The Champions League and Bundesliga runner-up was not keen on the Tottenham job, albeit mainly because he had reservations of taking over a team in the midst of a relegation battle.
While West Ham host David Moyes’ Everton on Saturday, Tottenham travel to already-relegated Wolves.
Chelsea are on their worst league run since the Titanic set sail in 1912. After five successive league wins without even a single goal, there is a serious argument that Leeds are the favourites to progress in Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final.
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