Chelsea manager Liam Rosenior has said that Wesley Fofana is a tough guy. He recently revealed that the defender is absolutely fine after being racially abused following Saturday’s draw with Burnley.
According to him, Fofana is a good and amazing footballer who didn’t deserve the treatment he received online, and he can only hope racism will cease to exist in the near future.
Rosenior added that he doesn’t expect Chelsea’s reported pre-tax loss of £355 million ($477.1m) to impact his work with the squad or in the transfer market.
His words, “It was a tough day for Wes, firstly what happened in the game, secondly the fallout and racist abuse that he got online.
Wes is a tough guy, he’s a good guy. But it’s amazing, we spoke about racism last week. It affects you. It shouldn’t exist, whether it’s online, verbal, in person. It’s something we have to try out best to eradicate from life. But Wes is absolutely fine, he trained well this week.
My job is to focus on the team, to try and make the squad as strong as possible to eventually win things. That’s why I’m here.
I will have conversations with the ownership and the guys above me but it’s something that’s not at the forefront of my mind. I just want make sure on the pitch we’re as successful as possible.”
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Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, they play their home games at Stamford Bridge.
The club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. They won their first major honour, the League championship, in 1955. The club won the FA Cup for the first time in 1970, their first European honour, the Cup Winners’ Cup, in 1971, and became the third English club to win the Club World Cup in 2022.
On 7 May 2022, Chelsea confirmed that terms have been agreed for a new ownership group, led by Todd Boehly, Clearlake Capital, Mark Walter and Hansjörg Wyss, to acquire the club. The group was later known as BlueCo.
The UK government approved the £4.25bn takeover, ending Abramovich’s 19-year ownership of the club. Bruce Buck, who served as chairman since 2003, was replaced by Boehly, while long-serving club director and de facto sporting director Marina Granovskaia left, as did Petr Čech from the role of technical and performance advisor.
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