Well, from what I hear, everyone at Chelsea got this real shock on New Year’s Day. I mean, Enzo just left, you know? Though I gotta say, some people around the place probably saw it coming a bit. A lot of the big players, they’re really upset now—they got on with him so well.
This friend of mine, Mick Brown, he used to be a chief scout and knows everything, he told me about it. He says even if there were hints, how sudden it was made things feel really shaky for the team. The whole mood at Stamford Bridge is just uncertain now.
Why’d he go? Basically, Enzo got more and more fed up with the people above him. The board, they weren’t backing him like he needed, and things got bad fast between them. It all just fell apart in a few weeks, ending with him quitting on the first of January.
“I just don’t think the players are happy,” Mick mentioned to me. A lot of them only know Chelsea with him in charge, so those relationships were strong. It’s gotta be a shock for them, even if you saw a little bit of it coming.
Many of the important guys were doing so good under him too. They probably think him leaving didn’t need to happen at all. It leaves this weird empty feeling now, even though the team just won 2-0 against Everton. After that game, Enzo himself said the two days before were the absolute worst for him there—you could tell things were really broken.
Mick worked with top managers for years, so he gets it. He says maybe some folks weren’t totally surprised, but that doesn’t make the actual news less of a jolt. Expecting something and then it happening are two different feelings, you know?
He’s worried about what comes next for the squad, honestly. “It’s gonna be a concern,” he said. You gotta watch how these players react over time when a new boss comes in. They seemed okay against Man City, but there’s always this bumpy period where someone new is trying to get their ideas across. Will it work? Who knows.
Now everyone’s already asking who’s next. Looks like Liam Rosenior, who’s over at Strasbourg in France, is the main guy they want. Mick actually said his name was on a list Chelsea had way back in December, so they were thinking ahead.
Liam did great at Hull City before, people really rated him, and now he’s got Strasbourg up to seventh and going strong in Europe. Mick thinks he’s actually the perfect person to take over from Enzo. So probably we’ll see him at Chelsea in a few days, which is a huge move for him. “It’s just how things are at Chelsea,” Mick finished by saying. You just gotta watch and see what happens next.
From everything I’m hearing, that coach had a real particular way of doing things. Like, his whole idea was to build from the back every single time, a real 4-3-3 shape with the fullbacks tucking inside. It’s the kind of philosophy that takes months for a team to properly learn, and now they’ll have to start all over with somebody else’s ideas. Makes you wonder if all that work just got wasted.
You also gotta look at the chairman, honestly. He’s got a history of this, bringing in a manager for a project and then not seeing it through when things get a tiny bit rocky. People in the game talk about it, how there’s never any patience for a real plan to come together. So maybe some of the senior players weren’t shocked, but they’re still tired of the constant change.
And it’s not just the manager, is it? The whole club feels a bit unstable from top to bottom right now. New players come in every window, others are let go, and now the leader is gone too. That kind of environment, it’s hard for anyone to feel settled or to build something lasting. You can have all the talent in the world, but if nobody feels secure, it’s just a house of cards waiting for the next breeze to knock it over.
