Chelsea told to sack Liam Rosenior after suffering heaviest Premier League defeat at Everton

Chelsea have to sack Liam Rosenior and bring in Cesc Fabregas to save their season.

That’s the view of talkSPORT co-host Rory Jennings after the Blues were well-beaten 3-0 by Everton on Saturday night, with the club at serious risk of missing out on Champions League qualification.

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Goals from Beto and Iliman Ndiaye inflicted a ninth top-flight defeat of the season on Chelsea, with 3-0 being their biggest losing margin away at Everton.

They had previously lost 3-1 on three separate occasions [in January 1998, September 2015 and December 2019] against the Toffees in Merseyside, while they were also beaten 4-2 in February 1994.

Rosenior, who joined in January as the successor to Enzo Maresca, is now under increased pressure at Stamford Bridge.

Saturday’s result comes just days after they were knocked out of the Champions League by Paris Saint-Germain – and a week after they lost 1-0 at home to Newcastle.

Feeling Blue

Jennings claimed afterwards that Chelsea should have sacked the ex-Strasbourg boss at half-time when they were 7-2 down on aggregate.

And he once again called for the decision to be made after the third Everton goal live on the GameDay Phone-In on talkSPORT.

He raged: “Disgrace, they are a disgrace, they are an absolute disgrace. Everyone out there is a disgrace to the badge.

“Liam Rosenior should be sacked now. What are we… 77 minutes into the game, he should be sacked now. It’s a travesty if he is the manager…”

Co-host Jamie O’Hara then pointed out that Rosenior is on a five-year deal with the option of an extra year, but Jennings insisted: “It’s irrelevant.

“We gave Lewis Hall a deal and then sold him to Newcastle. We’ve given Liam Rosenior a deal, it’s time to sell him.

“He is gone, he is out the club, he cannot be the Chelsea manager!

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“He has proven to us that he’s not up to the job, look, if you don’t want to make this a personal thing, people get annoyed when I call him ‘talentless’ or say that he’s mediocre, or say that he’s undeserving of the job.

“I don’t care if people get annoyed, it’s completely true. For one second, I won’t be emotional about it.

“Let’s just call this an experiment, and let’s even pretend that it’s a noble experiment, something that you could say was progressive and exciting, giving a young, English manager an opportunity.

“OK, great, you tried it, it hasn’t worked, it’s been a distinct failure, a proven failure, now get him out the club and get a proper manager in!

“There are so many obvious, proper managers, managers who have a proven track record, managers who know what it takes to win games of football.

“This Chelsea team are still capable of getting into the Champions League spots this year, with this manager, that is not going to happen.”

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Get on the phone to Cesc

Jennings then called for Chelsea to bring former star and current Como boss Cesc Fabregas in as their new boss.

He remarked: “Genuinely if the club’s standards are anything close to what they should be, I do know what the answer is.

“The answer is sack Rosenior now… just get him out of the club now, get on the phone immediately to Cesc Fabregas.

“Somebody who understands Chelsea, somebody who won the league with us, somebody who knows what the standards should be, somebody who has an affinity with the fans, somebody who was an elite player themselves.

“What we need is somebody like that, the club will never do that because Fabregas has too much pride, he would never exist and work within these parameters.

“But if we were a club that were serious, that’s what we would do.”

Jennings concluded by saying: “Battered by Newcastle, battered by Paris Saint-Germain, battered by Everton.

“He’s got to go tonight hasn’t he? He’s actually got to be sacked tonight.”

The defeat for Chelsea leaves the club in sixth spot, as they failed to leapfrog above Liverpool and Aston Villa into fourth place.

As for Everton, they are up into seventh and sit just two points behind the west Londoners.