Chelsea Sack Rosenior After Five Scoreless Defeats — Worst Run in 114 Years

Three months. A six-and-a-half-year contract. Gone.

Chelsea parted ways with Liam Rosenior on Wednesday after five consecutive Premier League defeats without scoring a single goal — the club’s worst run since 1912. The final straw was a 3-0 loss to Brighton at the Amex. Calum McFarlane takes over as interim until the end of the season.

It started so well. Rosenior won four straight matches after joining from Strasbourg in January and led Chelsea into the Champions League last 16. Then it collapsed — seven defeats in the last eight. A squad worth hundreds of millions unable to put the ball in the net.

The exit will cost Chelsea approximately €27 million. Their second manager sacked this season, after Enzo Maresca left in January. At some point, the problem stops being the manager.