A Chelsea legend is very worried about the club, which is already looking for their third coach of the season after firing Rosenior. He admits the situation is so serious that no top-level coach will want to come now.
John Terry admits he is very worried about the club's future, which is already looking for its third coach this season. The vacancy arose after the dismissal of Rosenior, who lasted just 23 games of a six-and-a-half-year contract.
“Tonight I am sitting here worrying about what is going to happen to our football club,” Terry said on his official TikTok account. “We need a coach after the weekend, but I don’t know when the ownership will decide who arrives. Will a top-level coach come to Chelsea right now, given our situation? We can’t sign players; it seems we will have to sell our best players, and that always hurts.”
Terry, 45, who captained the team during its best era, believes the potential absence of European competitions and current economic difficulties make the job unattractive to elite coaches. The club is going through a historic crisis: it has not scored in five consecutive league matches for the first time in 114 years.
The former defender added, “We will not play in Europe, and I hope I am wrong. I am very frustrated and, above all, worried. I feel the anger and frustration of the Chelsea fans. In my time as captain, I saw 17 coaches come through, so the players must come together and focus on the weekend match, forgetting the outside noise.
We have a hugely important match, very difficult, but also very easy for us, as players: ignore the noise and focus on what is coming, which is the match against Leeds this weekend. We have seen it many times, but perhaps the future is not as clear as we have always believed.”
Rosenior’s dismissal after just 106 days has generated divided opinions. Some see it as a necessary step to end a negative streak that culminated in the 3-0 loss to Brighton. At the same time, former Chelsea striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, 53, said he was surprised by the timing of the decision, given the project's promised length.
“I am surprised. I did not expect it to happen so soon,” Hasselbaink told Sky Sports News. “I know he was under pressure because Chelsea is a big club and they are expected to win. They hadn’t gone without scoring in five matches before, or it had been a long time, so the statistics did not favor him.
But since he hasn’t been at Chelsea long, I thought they would give him more time. It surprises me, but in football, this happens: the shirt is heavy, and the fans are used to always winning. The match against Brighton was bad.”
The loss to Brighton dropped Chelsea to eighth place, seven points behind fifth-place Liverpool, having played one more match. With four matches left, their chances of qualifying for European competitions remain alive on two fronts. Even with remote chances in the Premier League, the FA Cup offers a direct route: winning the semifinal against Leeds would give them the title and a ticket to the Europa League.
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