Scott Parker facing Burnley FC sack? Ex-Chelsea boss could be the answer | OneFootball

Burnley could produce a stroke of genius by replacing Scott Parker with Liam Rosenior, following his Chelsea dismissal

Burnley boss Scott Parker's future is in doubt following the Clarets' relegation from the Premier League to the Championship.

Parker led the Lancashire outfit to automatic promotion from the second tier last term, but a woeful top-flight season has followed, with Wednesday's defeat against Manchester City sealing their relegation fate with four games remaining.

The Clarets have not earned a win since their 3-2 triumph over Crystal Palace on 11 February, while their victory over the Eagles came just three days before they were knocked out of the FA Cup by League One outfit Mansfield Town.

Burnley never recovered from their defeat to Mansfield, and will consequently play their football in the Championship once again next term.

Burnley can land ambitious Liam Rosenior swoop as perfect Scott Parker replacement

Parker was rightly a popular figure at Turf Moor when he led the Clarets to promotion from the Championship to the Premier League at the first time of asking last year.

However, the Englishman subsequently steered the Lancashire side to instant relegation back to the second tier, which has led to serious questions over his future.

As reported by Sky Sports, Burnley are set to hold talks over Parker's future now that their relegation from the Premier League has been officially confirmed.

The 45-year-old has earned three promotions to the top flight as a manager, with Fulham, Bournemouth, and the Clarets, but he has always fallen short in the Premier League.

Burnley, meanwhile, will want their next manager to be someone who can not only steer them back to the top level, but can subsequently keep them above the second tier.

Despite his severe shortcomings at Chelsea, who recently sacked him after just three months in charge, Liam Rosenior could be the answer for the Lancashire club.

Before his woeful spell at Stamford Bridge, which concluded with an embarrassing 3-0 defeat against Brighton, Rosenior was considered one of Europe's best young managers, thanks to the solid job he did in charge of Strasbourg.

The 41-year-old was given little choice but to move to the high-pressure Chelsea job, as they are under the same ownership as the Ligue 1 outfit, and the board wanted him at Stamford Bridge.

Rosenior previously performed largely well in the Championship as Hull City boss, steering the Tigers well clear of relegation danger in the 2022/23 season, before nearly guiding them to the play-offs the following campaign.

Hull dismissed the Englishman in the summer of 2024, which ultimately proved to be a mistake, as he led Strasbourg to European football, whereas the Yorkshire outfit found themselves battling against relegation last term.

Meanwhile, at Championship level, then up-and-coming manager Vincent Kompany proved to be an exceptional Burnley boss, guiding them to the second-tier title.

Aside from his brief, albeit dreadful, Chelsea stint, Rosenior is a promising boss of a similar mould to that of Kompany when he moved to Turf Moor.

Furthermore, Rosenior's Stamford Bridge failings have left him in a position where he will have to move on to a new job quickly to keep his stock high.

That gives Burnley a rare opportunity to potentially hire a boss who has Championship experience and has also managed in two different top-flight divisions.

Parker has already proven that he was not the man to keep the Clarets in the Premier League, whereas Rosenior could perform better in the top flight, away from the spotlight of Stamford Bridge and the Blues' turbulent ownership.

Burnley swoop for Liam Rosenior could leave Hull City envious

If Burnley do choose to complete an audacious swoop for Rosenior, taking advantage of his recent Chelsea sacking, it could leave his former employers Hull jealous.

As aforementioned, the Tigers narrowly avoided relegation last term, having dismissed the 41-year-old in the summer of 2024.

Rosenior proved them wrong by guiding Strasbourg to a seventh-place finish in Ligue 1 last season, and could come back to haunt Hull next term, if Burnley appointed him ahead of the 2026/27 season.

The Tigers previously boasted an outside chance of clinching automatic promotion this campaign, but are instead at risk of failing to finish in the play-offs.

If Hull stay in the Championship, and Rosenior moves to Burnley, their former boss could hinder the Yorkshire outfit's promotion chances.

Ultimately, though, the ex-Brighton player's managerial career to date suggests that he is a better candidate to guide the Clarets to a brighter future than Parker - it all depends as to whether he wants to jump back into a managerial hot-seat immediately after his disappointing stint at Stamford Bridge.