'Sporting directors are out of their depth and shouldn't still be here'

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"All aboard the crazy train again," said Chelsea fan Alex Churchill on BBC Radio 5 Live's Football Daily podcast following the sacking of Liam Rosenior.

He was the fifth boss that the Chelsea owners BlueCo have dismissed in recent years with his tenure lasting less than four months.

Churchill believes the club's five sporting directors should also depart the club for "repeatedly" showing "they are out of their depth" with the recruitment of managers.

"I feel quite bad for Rosenior, but sometimes someone just isn't right and he wasn't right," said Churchill. "I don't think it will damage his career either because people will look and think 'but it's Chelsea and they are nuts'.

"Of course, he was going to take the job and hope for the best because he is ambitious but it was not a good fit.

"The bodies are piling up now and if his head has been forced to roll then so should the sporting directors. They have demonstrated repeatedly that they are out of their depth and they shouldn't still be here.

"Chelsea fans were willing to give Rosenior a chance and not willing him to fail because we are being told there is a plan to succeed but in the last month the discontent started.

"Things like substituting a defender for a defender when chasing the game felt like he didn't know what to do at this level and that's when fans started to feel like he wasn't cut out for the job.

"No one is celebrating that he has failed or has any animosity for him as a person.

"We play Leeds in an FA Cup semi-final at the weekend and the club are grovelling with fans to buy tickets. That sums up the disconnect the fans have at the moment.

"Luckily, we are in a position where nothing can go wrong from here because we aren't going to make the Champions League spot anyway.

"We aren't going to get a top manager - maybe not even a mid-range one - until people can see the structure within the club has changed.

"The same thing keeps happening."