One rule for one, one rule for an additional? That’s the message popping out of Chelsea, as boss Liam Rosenior sends Enzo Fernandez to the shares, whereas letting others run away scot-free.
What was the crime? Teasing a switch? A succulent switch hearsay?
While Fernandez’s feedback have been lower than supreme – the Argentine flirting with a transfer away from Chelsea – the punishment doesn’t match the crime. It pales compared to the feedback made by Manchester City’s Rodri over the worldwide break, and he’ll nearly actually be picked by Pep Guardiola within the subsequent two matches.
Regardless, they weren’t even the worst feedback made by a Chelsea participant whereas away with their nationwide workforce. Fernandez might’ve adopted in his team-mate Marc Cucurella’s footsteps, with the Spaniard tantamount to suggesting Rosenior wasn’t match for objective.
The left-back questioned the hierarchy’s determination to let Enzo Maresca depart the membership, with Cucurella saying: “When a manager gives you that confidence and offers you a platform to fight for titles, you’d die for him.
“The second Maresca left, it had a massive impression on us. These are selections taken by the membership. If you requested me, I might not have made this determination. To make a change like that, the most effective factor is to attend till the tip of the season.
“You would give everyone, the players and the new manager, time to get ready, have a full pre-season. The instability around the club comes from this, in a nutshell. We had a caretaker [former under-21s coach Calum McFarlane] first, then a new manager, with new ideas and no time to work on them. It is what it is.”
Whenever you hear Rosenior discuss, he tries to provide off the impression that he’s swimming along with his head above the water. Instead, it’s more and more clear the 41-year-old is drowning, arms wailing within the air, and scarily out of his depth.
If a Chelsea supervisor below Roman Abramovich had made the ‘respect the ball’ feedback within the aftermath of a humiliating Premier League loss, they’d have been frog-marched out of Stamford Bridge and given their P45 on the spot.
