‘Exceptional coach’ – Liam Rosenior has transformed £1.7m Chelsea flop into ‘new Marcelo’

Liam Rosenior’s Strasbourg revolution has been so spectacular ─ his striker is high scorer and one other may quickly be price £60million.

The 41-year-old’s stellar work growing promising younger abilities into rising stars has reworked ex-Chelsea flop Diego Moreira.

The previous EFL boss has continued to go from power to power in France since changing Arsenal legend Patrick Vieira in July 2024.

His appointment got here two months after he was sacked by Hull Metropolis, having narrowly missed out on the Championship play-offs.

The Tigers’ loss has been Strasbourg’s acquire, after Rosenior oversaw a seventh-place end, which earned Convention League qualification.

Final season’s stars Andrey Santos, Habib Diarra and Dilane Bakwa are all now a part of Chelsea, Sunderland, and Nottingham Forest’s squads.

Of their absence, Rosenior was laden with 18 new arrivals, with Strasbourg the most important spenders in France final summer season at €127m.

Liverpool’s points have proven that cash is not at all times the moment recipe for fulfillment, however Le Racing have skilled no such downturn.

Strasbourg presently sit third in Ligue 1, two factors off the highest, having gained 5 of their eight video games and drawn 3-3 with PSG.

Rosenior described Joaquín Panichelli’s two-goal exhibiting as ‘the most effective centre-forward performances I’ve seen stay’.

The 23-year-old, who has flourished within the absence of injured captain and Chelsea-bound Emanuel Emegha, is Ligue 1’s high scorer, having been languishing within the Spanish second tier final season.

European soccer broadcaster Andy Brassell informed talkSPORT.com: “I believe Rosenior is perhaps somewhat bit modest as a result of actually, I believe Panichelli is already the good thing about his teaching.

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“What we’ve got seen since Rosenior has been at Strasbourg is that he’s not simply an clever, participating man in entrance of the cameras.

“He is an distinctive coach and developer of gamers. And we noticed that with Diego Moreira, who was previously at Chelsea, who has actually been reworked below Rosenior.

“He was somebody who went out from Chelsea on mortgage to Lyon, appeared completely nowhere close to prepared for top-flight soccer.

“Then a yr later, he goes to Strasbourg, and swiftly, he is the most effective wing-backs within the league as a result of he alters his place.

“He is so good, not simply with the ball, however with out the ball as properly. His defensive consciousness is implausible now.

“By way of scoring and creating, the runs he makes, the notice that he is bought when Strasbourg are out of possession, all of these elements of his video games, actually, Rosenior has completely reworked him. It is wonderful.”

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Chelsea blow after not together with buy-back clause for ‘new Marcelo’

Moreira guarantees to be the primary switch mistake of the Blues’ symbiotic relationship with their fellow BlueCo-owned membership.

Santos and Djordje Petrovic excelled for Chelsea’s sister facet final season, with Mamadou Sarr, Mike Penders and Kendry Paez hoping to take pleasure in related experiences at Strasbourg this time period.

Nevertheless, Moreira, who has been dubbed the ‘new Marcelo’, was bought for a paltry £1.7m with no related kind of buy-back clause concerned within the deal between the 2 golf equipment for Mathis Amougou.

Brassell added that the 21-year-old’s success may see Strasbourg vie to problem Borussia Dortmund as the longer term elite ending faculty.

“Soccer’s a small neighborhood, folks discuss, and individuals who have been coached by Rosenior are going to go to their mates and their mates, [and say] ‘Mate, this man has modified my sport. This man has actually helped me develop and go on to the subsequent stage’”, he added.

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“Now, I believe you’ve got seen that with Dilane Bakwa, who bought his massive transfer to Nottingham Forest as properly.

“You’ve got seen what occurred with Andre Santos, and he is now thought of prepared to start out Premier League video games – not all of them, however he is prepared to start out Premier League video games in a Chelsea squad, which is especially stacked in midfield.

“So the whole lot that Rosenior has performed since he is been there may be so, so spectacular.”

Brassell continued: “Strasbourg have gotten a terrific alternative not simply to make the Champions League this yr, however perhaps to make the Champions League in subsequent years. So I believe that makes them an extremely engaging prospect to younger gamers.

“Now, we have spoken at numerous different instances, are Dortmund a real developer, for instance, of younger gamers nonetheless? Are Monaco nonetheless a membership the place you’re feeling, as a younger participant, you possibly can develop?

“For those who consider the competitors there may be for gamers of their late teenagers or 2021, for these groups that aren’t fairly elite stage groups who say, properly, if you happen to come to us for a few years, we’re your ending faculty to succeed in elite soccer.

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“You come and play for us for a few years, and you then go to Chelsea otherwise you go to Actual Madrid otherwise you go to Man Metropolis or Barcelona or Liverpool or wherever else.

“I believe if you happen to’re Strasbourg, you are in all probability in fairly a great place, significantly whereas Rosenior’s the coach, to say, ‘Come to us, we’ll make you into that man’.

“Strasbourg, with the useful resource they have, with the setup they have, with the present situation of French soccer financially, I believe they have a singular alternative to carve themselves somewhat area of interest right here, and to perhaps even go forward of Monaco and say, that is the place as a high younger participant you have to be.

“Clearly, over time, that makes them self-sufficient as properly. In the event that they get in Diego Moreira for cents on the greenback, after which swiftly they’ll promote him a few years down the road for 40, 50, 60 million, no matter. I imply, that is some mannequin, proper?”