Chelsea’s new manager Liam Rosenior has been compared to The Office star David Brent and Will from The Inbetweeners after going viral for his pompous quotes.
Rosenior suffered his first defeat as Blues boss on Wednesday night as his side lost 3-2 at Arsenal in the opening leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final.
And the 41-year-old has been attracting lots of attention for his salesman-like and grandiose speech, which has shown him to be a quirky addition to the Premier League.
A clip from a documentary about his time at previous club Strasbourg has hit the internet like wildfire after he tried to explained the meaning of management.
‘In English, “manage”, if you split the two words, it’s “man” and “age”, so you’re ageing men,’ he said.
‘Am I a manager or a coach? Both. Coaching is educating, coaching is wanting to improve players on a technical and tactical level.
Chelsea’s new manager Liam Rosenior has been compared to The Office star David Brent
He has also been likened to Will from The Inbetweeners after going viral for pompous quotes
‘Management is making sure that you have a strong culture, that your players have rules and regulations, and you manage them in the right way.’
One person reposted the first quote and commented: ‘This is, without exception, the worst thing I’ve ever heard.’
Another imposed Rosenior’s face onto the body of Brent in a scene from The Office.
One popular account reposted the clip and wrote: ’14-year-old me in my garden after playing Football Manager for the first time.’
Another user said: ‘Oh man , that “man-age” line was so cringe’.
‘Just win games bro, this isn’t the Oscars,’ was the advice of one fan.
Football journalist Adam Hurrey shared an image of Rosenior posing on the cover of Chelsea’s matchday programme and quipped: ‘Why is Liam Rosenior about to offer a small business loan at a very competitive rate here?’
Somebody joked: ‘Tube advert for a university I’ve never heard of, surely.’
Rosenior had said: ‘In English, “manage”, if you split the two words, it’s “man” and “age”, so you’re ageing men’
Jumping on that, one user suggested: ‘Discover your true self at the University of West Leatherhead’.
Another said: ‘It’s very “Teach First ad campaign poster” too’.
One person combined images of Rosenior and Will from The Inbetweeners, who is known for his officious manner.
Rosenior has also attempted to validate his managerial reign by claiming that he, and not a teacher, was a manager of his school team.
‘You ask my mates who I’m still friends with now, going to school in Bristol, I was managing the school team at 11,’ he told TNT Sports. ‘I was doing shape with him on the school fields after school.’
People may joke about Rosenior but his record in management so far outlines him as a serious coach.
Across stints with Derby County (interim), Hull City, and Strasbourg, the Englishman has an impressive record.
Last season he finished seventh with Strasbourg and qualified them for the UEFA Conference League.
Rosenior has declared: ‘I’m not arrogant, I’m good at what I do. In every job I’ve worked… I’ve been successful’
This season, the northern French club were seventh again under him and topped the Conference League table with an unbeaten record.
Rosenior is certainly bullish about his chances at Stamford Bridge after signing a contract until 2032.
‘You don’t limit your ambitions,’ he said. ‘I’m not arrogant, I’m good at what I do. In every job I’ve worked, whether as an interim, assistant, head coach, relative to the group I’ve worked with, I’ve been successful.
‘I’ve always wanted to be at a club like this but it’s not about just being here, it’s about being successful. Nobody can guarantee wins but at the same time I’ve worked very hard for a long time to try and put myself in a position where I can be successful.
‘When I went in at Strasbourg, they said I was a joke in the media. They said my team would finish last, that it was an impossible project, the players were way too young, too inexperienced, and that I was a nobody from England.
‘We finished three points outside the Champions League. The outside noise is just noise. If you focus on the job, your players and staff, and your process, I feel like you can do amazing things.
‘I am not promising it, I am working towards it, but I believe very strongly we can be successful here.
‘At a club of this stature, fans want success and have every right to want success now. To win over the fans, I need to win games. I think they need to see a team that represents them. I was born not far up the road.
‘It’s about hard work, determination. We’re trying to build something in a different way. I’m very confident that in time, we’ll show people why we’ve done it this way.’
