LIAM ROSENIOR's Exclusive first interview | New Chelsea Head Coach 🔵

Liam, first of all, welcome to Chelsea.

Huge congratulations. How are you feeling sitting here as Chelsea head coach?

>> Proud, excited, can't wait to start. It's a lot of hard work in my life to get to this point, but as I said to the players this

afternoon, getting to this club is one thing, but I need to win at this amazing football club with these players, with the staff. And that's what my focus is

the staff. And that's what my focus is on. Um, when I first heard about the

on. Um, when I first heard about the fact that Chelsea Football Club were interested in me to be the head coach, it was one of the proudest days of my life and now I'm sat here. Uh, I've met the staff, I've met the players. Um,

it's a day that myself and my family will will never forget. Come from a proud football family, I know what this club means to London as a city. Uh, how

this club represents London as a city all over the world. The trophies this club has won. um the managers who have had the privilege of the same thing that I'm living right now and the players as

well. And there's a culture of winning

well. And there's a culture of winning and the traditions and values that I want to uphold and I'm really really looking forward to to getting started. I

know how special this club is. Um and I can't wait, not just for me, for all my family, my my children, my son AJ, um my extended family, friends. Um they're all

very very happy for me. But the only way I keep them happy is to win. And I know that's why I'm here. And with the players that we have and the staff that we have um I'm very very um confident we

can do that. Feel at home. It's crazy

after one day. Uh I think Callum's been magnificent. Callum and Harry who have

magnificent. Callum and Harry who have took the team. There's a really really good energy amongst the group. Um

obviously fantastic performance away at Manchester City in terms of all the things that I want from from the team in terms of energy, intensity, togetherness, unity, and quality. Um, I

was really really happy with that. But

there's a really good feel around the club and hopefully I can I can add to that. I think I'm demanding. I think I'm

that. I think I'm demanding. I think I'm honest, um, caring. I care about my team. I care about my players. I care

team. I care about my players. I care

about my staff. I'm meticulous,

organized. I have a clear idea of the way I want the game to be played. And

now, um, I'm in a position where I want to be remembered to be a winning coach, consistently winning. And that doesn't

consistently winning. And that doesn't come from just me. It's the club. It's

the players. It's the staff. My job is to create an atmosphere and environment where people enjoy what they do. And if

you enjoy what you do, you perform better. And if you perform better, you

better. And if you perform better, you end up winning games of football. So if

we are successful, it won't all be about me. Um but my job is to make sure that

me. Um but my job is to make sure that we're as organized, as committed, as determined. Um we put pride into the

determined. Um we put pride into the shirt. Uh and if you do those things,

shirt. Uh and if you do those things, normally you win games of football. And

I feel the team meeting today when I spoke to them very briefly and Callum Tuk um in the training session there's a really good connection between these players and I know a lot of people

spoken about the youth of uh of this team. Youth can be a strength. Um I come

team. Youth can be a strength. Um I come from a club where our average age I think was 20.8 the youngest in the world uh or the youngest in Europe. Now I

think we are a little bit older a little bit wiser but strength in youth is energy. It's application, it's fitness,

energy. It's application, it's fitness, it's intensity. And they're all things

it's intensity. And they're all things that I want the fans to see. I want us to play high tempmpo aggressive front foot football. I want the fans at home

foot football. I want the fans at home to be off their seat in the first 10, 15 minutes and feel like it's wave after wave. Because when I played against the

wave. Because when I played against the likes of Essen, Lamper, Drogba, Rob, Joe Cole, you felt that when you turned up at Stamford Bridge, it was going to be a really difficult day. I want to create

that feeling here. And um I want us to be intense. I want us to be brave and

be intense. I want us to be brave and fearless and if we do all of those things we could have a really good time together. To win you need to improve. To

together. To win you need to improve. To

improve you need to develop. Uh you need to develop individuals. Um obviously

I've worked with Liam Dilap. Great time

with him. Great to see him move to this club and I get to work with him again.

Rob Sanchez I've known since he was 16.

So a Brighton coming through. I know Rob very well. Obviously, I had Andre last

very well. Obviously, I had Andre last year and he's got two beautiful children that he's brought into the world as well as an outstanding performance at Manchester City, but what I want to do is I want to get to know all of them

very quickly because I think if you get to know people, you can improve them.

Um, and if they improve individually, you improve the collective and you win games. And that's what me and my staff

games. And that's what me and my staff will do very very quickly here. Yeah.

Small small first game at home against Arsenal in a in a cup semi. That's why

why I live. It's what I live for. It's

what I've worked so hard for. I know I'm perceived to be a young coach. Um I

don't want to get too much into myself about my journey. It's something that I love doing. It's something a dream that

love doing. It's something a dream that I've always had to be a club of this magnitude. So yeah, it's going to be a

magnitude. So yeah, it's going to be a great night, but coaching is not about you as an individual. Coaching is about serving others. And um I'm looking

serving others. And um I'm looking forward to not just that. I'm looking

forward to many many good good days to come. I took soccer schools with my dad

come. I took soccer schools with my dad when I was 16. And throughout my playing career, I was coaching. So when I was at Hull, for example, Jacob Greavves, I was coaching while I was a player was 13 years old. I end up coaching him as a

years old. I end up coaching him as a first team player at Hull. Coaching's in

my blood. Um, and that's why I think I'm in the position I'm in now. I love what I do and that hopefully spreads to the players. I want them to love what they

players. I want them to love what they do, but I want us to win. And then that needs to be the message that I give the players and the message I give to the supporters. My dad when I was

supporters. My dad when I was 15 16 he managed to talk to got them promoted from League 2 playing a style of football that I believe in. Brendan

Rogers who was here um really affected my way of thinking when I was a player at Reading. I've had really top coaches

at Reading. I've had really top coaches Chris Hutton's humility um but yeah there's so many different influences and coaching is just about football.

Coaching is about people. It's about

understanding people and getting the best out of them and that's what I want to do here. I think the potential is scary. Um, if you have what we have here

scary. Um, if you have what we have here in terms of the raw tools, in terms of the ingredients, in terms of the quality of the players, the age that they're at, in terms of the staff, in terms of the

supporters, when Stanford Bridge is rocking, the away fans, I've met Chelsea away fans are top. What my job is to create an atmosphere where we consistently win. Um, I want to be here

consistently win. Um, I want to be here for a long time. I know I need to win in the short term, but I need to build for the long term. And with the likes, I don't want to single out individual players because every member of that

squad is is world class in my eyes. I

just want to improve them and um I'm really really looking forward to getting to work with them in the next few days.

>> Finally then Lim, you mentioned the supporters and how crucial they are.

What would your message be to Chelsea fans listening to you right now?

>> Believe. Believe in what's an amazing football club. Uh believe in the

football club. Uh believe in the players. Um when you give the energy to

players. Um when you give the energy to your team, you help them win. and and

that's why I'm here and that's why my staff are here. That's why the players are here. We're here to win and I really

are here. We're here to win and I really really need the fans to help us achieve that and I can't wait to meet them really soon.

>> Exciting times. On behalf of all of us, good luck.

>> Thank you.