{"id":43764,"date":"2026-02-06T09:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=43764"},"modified":"2026-02-06T09:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:56:19","slug":"i-wanted-him-at-chelsea-liam-rosenior-drops-bombshell-on-mamadou-sarr-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/transfer-news\/i-wanted-him-at-chelsea-liam-rosenior-drops-bombshell-on-mamadou-sarr-return\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Wanted Him at Chelsea,\u201d Liam Rosenior drops bombshell on Mamadou Sarr return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea-linked defender Mamadou Sarr has returned to Strasbourg, much to the delight of head coach Liam Rosenior, who has openly admitted he wanted the player at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about Sarr\u2019s situation, Rosenior said, \u201cI\u2019m happy Mamadou Sarr has come back. I wanted him at Chelsea,\u201d highlighting how highly he rates the young centre-back\u2019s ability and potential. Sarr, who is part of the BlueCo multi-club project involving Chelsea and Strasbourg, is expected to play a key role for the Ligue 1 side this season after his return.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old defender had been monitored closely by Chelsea following his impressive performances in France, but Strasbourg have managed to keep hold of him as they continue to build a competitive squad with a clear long-term vision.<\/p>\n<p>Rosenior also praised another Chelsea-linked player, Aaron Anselmino, underlining the strong connection between the two clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea-linked defender Mamadou Sarr has returned to Strasbourg, much to the delight of head coach Liam Rosenior, who has openly\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":43765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4660],"tags":[3187,312,3686,1823,3796,4466,4744,4413],"class_list":["post-43764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transfer-news","tag-blues","tag-chelsea","tag-david-ornstein","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-football","tag-liam-rosenior","tag-mamadou-sarr","tag-transfers"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43766,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43764\/revisions\/43766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}