Chelsea are once again navigating a turbulent managerial situation after Liam Rosenior was dismissed earlier this month.
His exit followed five consecutive league defeats without a goal, a run that intensified pressure on the club’s hierarchy.
Rosenior became the second permanent head coach to depart this season, after Enzo Maresca left Chelsea in January.
In the meantime, Calum McFarlane has been appointed interim head coach for the remainder of the campaign as the club assess their long-term options.
Chelsea are expected to be deliberate in their next appointment, with around seven or eight candidates currently under consideration.
Andoni Iraola is understood to be an early front runner, while the club have also reportedly made contact with the agent of Xabi Alonso as part of their planning.
“It’s a bit too early for Fabregas. We all hear about the success with Como in Italy. But for me, I just think it’s a bit too early. A couple more seasons, establish himself a bit,” he said on The Obi One Podcast.
“Get a bit more experience, maybe come to the Premier League, and coach a lesser team than Chelsea. Listen, we are not an experimental club. We’re not that club. We’re not an experimental football club, no.
“We already made a team, a club, an established club. That’s who we are. We’ve already established ourselves. We’re winners. We win trophies, big trophies, the biggest team in London, winning trophies.
“No, the football club, no. Get managers who are already made, who know and have experience of what it feels of winning titles, whether you won as a player or you won as a manager.”
