Liam Rosenior has been embarrassed by Chelsea players - he’ll leave and it isn’t his fault

Liam Rosenior has been embarrassed by Chelsea players - he’ll leave and it isn’t his faultThe Chelsea boss reckons only three or four of his team put in any sort of acceptable effort in the defeat at Brighton and that can only mean the impending sack for RoseniorCommentsSportopinionAndy Dunn Chief Sports Writer11:23, 22 Apr 2026Updated 11:32, 22 Apr 2026View 4 ImagesLiam Rosenior once again saw his players out-run as they crashed to defeat at Brighton(Image: Getty)From a few former team-mates and from people who should know better, there have been some pretty low blows aimed at Liam Rosenior. Ahead of the capitulation at Brighton, Sean Davis - who played with him at Fulham - said Rosenior ‘talks like he has swallowed a dictionary of long words’.‌Kevin Kilbane claimed that everything his former Hull City colleague ‘says is waffle, drivel, nothing.’ Some of what is supposed to be informed criticism has come across as mockery. Some of it has not been very pleasant.‌He is a relatively young coach trying to make his way in a very tough job. But for Rosenior, with these players, it has already become the impossible job. Because it is not just his former team-mates who are mocking him. His current players are mocking him.‌READ MORE: Enzo Fernandez's behaviour speaks volumes after Chelsea hit new low in Brighton defeatREAD MORE: Liam Rosenior to bank huge figure if Chelsea sack him as 'compensation package' revealedOnly they are not mocking him with words, but with effort (lack of), with commitment (lack of), with performances (lack of). That these Chelsea players get out-run in every Premier League match in terms of distance covered tells you all you need to know.Eleven of the 20 outfield players who started the Brighton-Chelsea game completed a full game. In the list of who ran the least, Chelsea occupied the bottom three positions. No Chelsea player got close to the 13.16 kilometres covered by Pascal Gross.View 4 ImagesLiam Rosenior was scathing of his pla...