It really is hard to recall a newly recruited manager being so grateful. So incredibly grateful that a big British football club has been willing to anoint him.
Liam Rosenior went back to Strasbourg, the club he was leaving, on Tuesday morning and staged an unusual press conference to expound on the honour of managing Chelsea. ‘I believe deeply in teamwork, unity, togetherness and working for one another, and those values will be at the heart of everything we do,’ he said in the press room, as if he were on to something.