{"id":325616,"date":"2026-04-28T05:24:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=325616"},"modified":"2026-04-28T05:24:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:54:40","slug":"paul-merson-names-the-present-premier-league-manager-chelsea-should-appoint-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/paul-merson-names-the-present-premier-league-manager-chelsea-should-appoint-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Merson names the present Premier League manager Chelsea should appoint | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Paul Merson fears Chelsea won\u2019t give you the option to draw an A-list manager (Picture: Sky Sports)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Paul Merson fears Chelsea\u2019s days of attracting an A List manager are over because the club considers its options following the sacking of Liam Rosenior.<\/p>\n

Chelsea\u2019s ownership were forced to chop short Rosenior\u2019s 106-day reign last week following an abysmal defeat at Brighton, their fifth in a row without scoring. <\/p>\n

Calum McFarlane has taken charge on an interim basis until the top of the season and there was an instantaneous improvement in Chelsea\u2019s performance at Wembley on Sunday because the Blues booked their place within the FA Cup final next month with a 1-0 win over Leeds United. <\/p>\n

Attention has already turned, nevertheless, to a everlasting successor with Bournemouth\u2019s Andoni Iraola into account.<\/p>\n

The Spaniard is about to go away at the top of the season when his contract expires but Merson has championed the credentials of Eddie Howe.<\/p>\n

The previous Cherries boss is facing mounting criticism at Newcastle following a poor run of form, but Merson believes Chelsea could should accept a manager of Howe\u2019s calibre given their current plight. <\/p>\n

He told Sky Sports News: \u2018I hear a number of Newcastle fans saying Eddie Howe is under pressure. I\u2019d take Eddie Howe. <\/p>\n

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Filipe Luis 5\/4
Cesc Fabregas 5\/2
Oliver Glasner 10\/3
Andoni Iraola 5\/1
Xavi Hernandez 15\/2
Roberto De Zerbi 25\/1
Marco Silva 9\/1
Unai Emery 14\/1
Frank Lampard 14\/1
Fabian Hurzeler 16\/1<\/p>\n

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\u2018My problem is at Chelsea now and the best way it’s and the best way it\u2019s all run, I feel they\u2019ll be getting a manager who’s grateful to be managing Chelsea, as a substitute of a top drawer manager.<\/p>\n

\u2018The times of your Mourinho, Contes, Tuchels, Ancelotti\u2019s those top, top managers where the club are grateful for them being the manager of the club.<\/p>\n

\u2018I feel now they\u2019re taking a look at managers who’re grateful to are available in and manage Chelsea due to the best way they run the club and the best way it’s.<\/p>\n

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Eddie Howe is under pressure at Newcastle (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Calum McFarlane is in command of Chelsea until the top of the season (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018Iraola is a excellent manager at Bournemouth, but these sorts of managers will are available in and look and go Chelsea have been outrun in each Premier League game this season. How do you switch that around<\/p>\n

\u2018This isn’t an ageing football team that is one in every of the youngest teams within the Premier League. For them to get outrun in each game and top, top manangers will have a look at that and think there’s rather a lot to be done. <\/p>\n

\u2018They need a few experienced players and a number of who shouldn\u2019t be there. It is a big, big job and I\u2019m undecided one in every of the massive boys will take it.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Paul Merson fears Chelsea won\u2019t give you the option to draw an A-list manager (Picture: Sky Sports) Paul Merson fears Chelsea\u2019s days of attracting an A List manager are over because the club considers its options following the sacking of Liam Rosenior. Chelsea\u2019s ownership were forced to chop short Rosenior\u2019s 106-day reign last week following […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":325617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20686],"tags":[21270,1289,11960,5479,622,550,23627,3820,4546,676],"class_list":["post-325616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-appoint","tag-chelsea","tag-current","tag-football","tag-league","tag-manager","tag-merson","tag-names","tag-paul","tag-premier"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325619,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325616\/revisions\/325619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}