Former England boss Fabio Capello has given a brutal assessment of Liam Rosenior – insisting the Chelsea head coach is ‘out of his mind’ along with his players ‘laughing’ at his methods.
Rosenior took the reins at Stamford Bridge in January after the departure of Enzo Maresca. Up until last week, Chelsea’s only defeats in that point have come against Arsenal within the Premier League and Carabao Cup.
The last seven days have been hugely damaging for the Blues boss nonetheless, capitulating away to Paris Saint-Germain within the Champions League round of 16 last week.
After a meek defeat at home to Newcastle United within the Premier League on Saturday, the French champions finished the job in brutal fashion last night, progressing to the quarter-finals because of an 8-2 aggregate victory in west London.
With just minutes of last night’s second leg remaining, Rosenior was spotted furiously scribbling notes and handing them to Alejandro Garnacho to pass onto his teammates.
Former England boss and Italian football legend Capello was one in every of the various left watching on in utter bemusement.
‘He’s out of his mind,’ said Capello, Football Italia report.
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‘He did something that can make the players laugh. That’s what they think. You saw his [Garnacho’s] face when he entered the pitch with that note; he was like: “What are you saying to me?”
‘While you do smart things, you might be involved, but if you do something like that, how are you involving any person?’
AC Milan legend Alessandro Costacurta also put the boot in, convinced Garnacho was left questioning his manager after the peculiar incident late on in the sport.
‘I used to be a player, and if something like that had happened to me, I wouldn’t have seen it as a technique to get the players on my side. It’s possible that there’s a brand new trend, but you possibly can see the attitude from Garnacho’s face,’ he said.
Also on punditry duty, West Ham legend and former Sunderland manager Paolo Di Canio believed the incident summed up a brand new generation of coaches who ‘who to point out they study until the top’.
‘Take a look at the way in which he entered the sphere. I used to be also a little bit of a prude, but these recent coaches are almost philosophers now,’ Di Canio said.
‘It looks like a joke, nevertheless it’s not. They strongly imagine that even the attitude in the ultimate minutes is very important.
‘They imagine in it. I see many who do the identical thing despite losing 3-0. They need to point out they study until the top; it’s the brand new generation. I understand it, but I’m like: “What are you doing?”’
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