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Liam Rosenior has declared his 107-day tenure at Chelsea as “the best and hardest experience of my life” but hit back at how he was perceived “in a country where tolerance is an important value”.
After an impressive spell in charge at BlueCo sister club Strasbourg, Rosenior was hired as Chelsea’s permanent replacement for Enzo Maresca in January.
However, he lasted only four months and was sacked in April after Chelsea lost five consecutive league games in a row without scoring for the first time since 1912.
During his time at the helm, Rosenior received criticism for his approach from a number of pundits and columnists as well as on social media.
Chelsea fans were initially split on his appointment and support for him dwindled further as results began to take a turn for the worse.
Now, in an interview with French outlet So Foot, Rosenior has spoken about his time in charge at Stamford Bridge at length for the first time since his sacking, having returned to France and begun thriving in a new role at high-flying Paris FC.
“It was the best experience of my life, and the hardest too,” Rosenior said of the Chelsea job, per Sport Witness. “It was fantastic, even though it only lasted four months.
Chelsea manager Liam Rosenior reacts on the touchline during the Premier League match at the American Express Stadium, Brighton. Picture date: Tuesday April 21, 2026.
“I don’t want to go into details now; I’ll talk about it one day, when the time is right. But in a country where tolerance is an important value, what happened there has nothing to do with football.”
He added: “The moment that worried me the most was at the beginning, when we went through that five-game winning streak. Any club would have been happy with such a run, but not Chelsea.
“You get good results and you’re in the spotlight. Then, there was a kind of snowball effect in the media.
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“They made fun of those instructions I gave [Alejandro] Garnacho on a scrap of paper when we were down to 10 men against PSG. The clothes I wore became a joke, the way I spoke too. I’m not a joke.
“You’re the first people I’m talking to about this, and probably the last for a long time, but one day, I’ll tell you what really happened.”
Rosenior continued: “In England, there is this preconceived notion of what a Premier League coach should be, how he should behave. You have to conform to that standard. People who know me know that I’m someone who tries to be sincere and authentic.
“But I don’t have control over how the media describes me or talks about me. What I’ve understood now, and this is important for all coaches worldwide, is that social media, or the media in general, can dictate public opinion about the quality of a player or a coach.
“This isn’t new, of course, but the biggest lesson from my time at Chelsea is knowing that they are also capable of constructing the entire narrative around a club’s trajectory.”