Malo Gusto: Chelsea ‘have to believe’ in head coach Liam Rosenior

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COBHAM, ENGLAND - MARCH 3: Head Coach Liam Rosenior and Malo Gusto of Chelsea during a training session at Chelsea Training Ground on March 3, 2026 in Cobham, England. (Photo by Darren Walsh/Chelsea FC via Getty Images) | Chelsea FC via Getty Images

Malo Gusto may be away on international duty with France at the moment, but he has heard and seen the growing criticism of Liam Rosenior and has come out in defense of his head coach when asked about him this weekend.

“I think he is a top coach, I saw that a lot of people criticised him. Not really [understand why] I have worked with him a lot since he joined Chelsea. I think he is a top person first of all, a top manager as well and as you say, he is young. He is a lot of things for the future, but if he is the Chelsea manager it is because he has the talent for this.

“As I said before, for us as a team, we have to believe in him, believe in the way we play, to stick to our plan and see how it goes.

“He is a good person, he is really honest, really simple, you can see that he is really passionate. He wants to share it with us his passion for football and I feel like I want to play for him, I want to show my best when he puts me on the pitch.”

Ignoring the logical fallacy of Rosenior being good enough simply because he has the job, Gusto is certainly right in one regard: the players do have to believe in the head coach if we are to get anywhere. Rosenior may have good ideas and he may have bad ideas, but if the players aren’t listening — and our recent performances certainly have had a whiff of “lost dressing room” about them — that won’t matter one bit.

The unfortunate part is that the players did believe quite strongly in the previous head coach, and his departure continues to reverberate throughout the squad. Enzo Fernández recently spoke of his surprise about that whole situation over the turn of the year, and Gusto’s now echoed that sentiment as well.

“It was a bit complicated for us in the middle of the season when Enzo Maresca was sacked. So a new coach coming in now, it was a big change I think for the team, everyone was surprised to be honest. But in football that can happen, so we had to adapt.”

“That is what we tried to do [but] it is a bit hard [changing system], when you start to understand one and then right away you have to change to another one, it is maybe a little bit more [difficult] for us because we have a little less experience. A lot of us are young but we have quality to deal with this but we just have to trust the process and do our best to put Chelsea where it is supposed to be.”

-Malo Gusto; source: ESPN

Trust the process! We’re so back.

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