GILL reveals how Rosenior responded to PSG humiliation with 'painful' experience

Chucked out of the Champions League over two legs by Paris Saint-Germain. Beaten by Newcastle United in the Premier League in between.

Perhaps all that was missing was an FA charge for surrounding the referee following that huddle featuring Paul Tierney – to go along with the record £10.75million fine from the Premier League for breaching financial rules, team news leaking out of the club, and confirmation that their captain, Reece James, had injured his hamstring again.

It was a bruising week, a sore one to take, and after suffering their third successive loss in a 3-0 humbling by PSG on Tuesday, Liam Rosenior allowed his players to take Wednesday off. Don't bother coming into Cobham unless you personally wish to use the facilities. Rest. Recover. Reset.

That was for the squad, not Rosenior. The hotel he is still temporarily calling home is nice, but not enough to want to spend a spare day there, and the 41-year-old made his short car ride to the training ground that morning as usual.

There, Rosenior used his Wednesday to watch back their three losses in full: the 5-2 to PSG, the 1-0 to Newcastle, the 3-0 to PSG.

He wanted to see if there was something he missed; to analyse in case there was anything he should have done differently. It made for painful viewing, but from Rosenior’s perspective, that is good as it only motivates you to make sure it does not happen again. Better to learn from a loss – three, even – than pretend it never happened.

Come Thursday, as Chelsea’s players trickled back into Cobham for their morning training session, and took to the pitch in front of the first-team building because the one behind it is currently occupied by excavators, trucks and tractors while undergoing maintenance work, Rosenior spoke to his squad. Full focus on Saturday’s Premier League trip to Everton. No dwelling on the defeats. We’re out of the Champions League. Now let’s work on getting back in it.

It was on that same morning when he spoke personally with Enzo Fernandez after Chelsea’s vice-captain caused some alarm by admitting in an interview with ESPN Argentina that he does not know if he will still be at the club next season. Not wanting to let that fester awkwardly, Rosenior asked for a chat.

These conversations do not necessarily only take place in the privacy of the manager’s office, or on his spacious balcony where Maurizio Sarri used to puff away and likewise plot Chelsea’s return to Champions League football. Rosenior is perfectly happy speaking with his players in the open, in the public setting of the canteen, for example.

As Rosenior told us at his pre-Everton press conference on Thursday afternoon, Fernandez did not tell him he is thinking of leaving when they spoke. Furthermore, we are told not one player out of the squad has told their head coach that they are interesting in a summer transfer. Not Cole Palmer. Not Moises Caicedo. Nobody has asked Rosenior to pass their message on to Chelsea’s sporting directors, Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart.

Rosenior has been spending increased time with Winstanley and Stewart of late, along with their other recruitment leaders in Joe Shields, Sam Jewell and Dave Fallows. They have been having ‘detailed’ conversations surrounding the summer – specifically looking at which positions they should strengthen. That included over the last week.

Clearly, central defence is one area in need of attention, Rosenior having said his possessional style requires players who make the right decisions in the right moments. That should see both signings and sales in the next window.

One source says Rosenior has had much more involvement in these types of conversations with the sporting leadership team than his predecessor, Enzo Maresca. It suggests they are looking at a longer future together despite social media speculation – described to us as ‘nonsense’ by one insider – saying Chelsea are already losing patience with their hire from Strasbourg.

Rosenior has been at Chelsea for a smidge more than two months now, but the last week may have taught him more than when they were winning. This is not a club that takes kindly to losing. Let alone three times in seven days. Welcome to Chelsea, where every defeat is a disaster.

But Rosenior is not bothered by what others are saying about him, even if he feels like he cannot even sneeze without it being dissected on social media.

He tells us he has hardly turned on the television in his hotel room, though did happen to catch Thierry Henry analysing him turning away from the pitch and towards his bench in the build-up to Newcastle’s winner last weekend.

We are among those to have written on Rosenior’s strange selection choices amid these three losses, though, arguably, the mocking of his mannerisms has been harsh. The man cannot pass a note containing tactical instructions to a player without being mocked online, after all.

Trevoh Chalobah had been removed on a stretcher towards the end of Tuesday’s loss to PSG. Chelsea were down to 10 men after using all of their substitutes. He gave Alejandro Garnacho a piece of paper to pass to Caicedo so that he knew to move to right back and where everyone else should be in their makeshift system. He was ridiculed as they were trailing 8-2 on aggregate at the time, but on the flip side, here was a head coach still caring while losing so heavily.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion of Rosenior. Whatever we may think of him as a tactician, he is a good man, happy to take the flak if it means others are spared. He is highly protective of his players, as Daily Mail Sport discovered first-hand amid this woeful week.

It was before the Newcastle game when James was brought in with Rosenior for his press conference after signing his new six-year contract. We asked Chelsea’s captain a question during our embargoed section to do with turning down opportunities to leave for more money out of loyalty to his club.

We meant well, but Rosenior saw it as a tad too cheeky, and intervened before James could respond. After explaining the reasoning for our line of enquiry, James gave a nice answer.

Save for their game of Whac-A-Mole – Chelsea found and dealt with the culprit who leaked their team news before both legs against PSG – and punishment for historical rule breaches during the Roman Abramovich era, it has been business as usual around Cobham.

A bad week, but one Rosenior insists will not define their season, and when asking around, we received the usual responses that there is a determination to get back to winning ways.

That, of course, will depend on how they turn up at Everton. It was a week from hell for Chelsea fans, or a week from Hull, according to those who reckon Rosenior is not experienced enough to manage a club of this calibre. It’s over to him, and his players, to get rid of that noise now.