Burley says there is ‘no point in keeping’ Liam Rosenior after Chelsea’s defeat at Brighton

Former Chelsea midfielder Craig Burley has referred to as for the sack of supervisor Liam Rosenior following the Blues’ 3-0 defeat at Brighton on Tuesday.

They’ve now misplaced 5 consecutive league video games without scoring for the first time since November 1912.

The Blues have additionally gathered simply 5 factors from their final 9 league fixtures. Solely Tottenham Hotspur have picked up fewer points throughout that interval.

They path fifth-placed Liverpool by seven factors — although the Reds have a sport in hand — leaving them with a slim hope of securing Champions League qualification.

Burley is unconvinced that Chelsea can safe a top-five end. He desires Rosenior to be sacked earlier than Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final conflict with Leeds United.

He informed ESPN FC: “I don’t see any level in retaining Liam Rosenior on this function when issues are spiralling downhill as quick as they’re. What are their probabilities of entering into the highest 5?

“They play Leeds on the weekend. They’ve virtually secured their Premier League standing, they’ve simply overwhelmed United, they usually gained once more on the weekend.

“They will sense an FA Cup ultimate, and Chelsea appear to be a deflated facet. They’re a better-organised workforce than Chelsea.

“Are you going to permit the Champions League to slide away after which let a supervisor who’s out of his depth take you into an enormous FA Cup sport the place they’re purported to be favourites? How are you going to do this?”

Burley additionally criticised Rosenior’s administration of the dressing room, citing Enzo Fernandez’s two-game suspension for ‘crossing a line‘.

“When you find yourself in a workforce, it is advisable have gamers on board. However while you come out with the rhetoric he has been utilizing since day one—suspending World Cup winners for innocuous statements and principally throwing them beneath the bus—it was ridiculous,” he added.

“After which we surprise why the opposite gamers are half-cocked, half-hearted, and performing the best way they’re.”

Chelsea’s hierarchy are nonetheless backing Rosenior, however that will change on the finish of the season, significantly if there isn’t any upturn in kind.

The English tactician was handed a six-and-a-half-year deal as Enzo Maresca’s substitute in January.

Chelsea must pay a major compensation bundle in the event that they resolve to sack him.