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Jamie Carragher has lashed out at Chelsea supporters, describing the fans as being hypocritical.
- Following the recent uncertainty of Chelsea’s future, Carragher had earlier suggested that Manchester United should seek to take advantage by pursuing Tuchel as their next manager.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Jamie Carragher, Monday night hits back at what he believes is the ‘hypocrisy’ of Chelsea fans unhappy with his suggestion Manchester United should target Thomas Tuchel.
Responding to the news that Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich had been sanctioned, plunging the Stamford Bridge club into turmoil, Carragher suggested United should seek to take advantage by pursuing Tuchel as their next manager.
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This didn’t go well with many Chelsea fans, as they have been a series of reactions by disgruntled Chelsea supporters.
“It’s fair to say that l had a few heated discussions at Stamford Bridge on Sunday [when Sky Sports covered their match with Newcastle],” said Carragher on Monday Night Football.
“The Chelsea fans are very passionate about their club and at this moment feel like the world is attacking them, and they are defending their club. I totally get that. But l wouldn’t change my opinion on it.
“And the reason l think it’s a little bit hypocritical of Chelsea supporters is because if teams – such as Manchester United with the manager, or other clubs with the players – are going to take advantage of the situation that Chelsea are in right now, Chelsea have been doing that for 20 years.
That was the big thing of Roman Abramovich coming – ‘we can throw our money about and get who we want’.
“The first thing they did was go to Manchester United and take Peter Kenyon as their CEO. ‘We’ll go to Liverpool and take the best midfielder in Europe and destabilise that club for two summers’ – they didn’t get him. ‘We’ll get Ashley Cole, an Invincible who has won everything at Arsenal. Yeah, we’ll go and get him. We get caught tapping up? Doesn’t matter, we’ll pay the fine’.
England, flying at the time with Sven-Goran Eriksson. ‘England manager? No, we want him as Chelsea manager. Don’t worry about what he’s doing with the FA, we want him and we’ll pay the fine’.
Chelsea have taken advantage of every other club in the last 20 years because of Roman Abramovich.
“So if l give an opinion on someone taking advantage of them, that is just a way of life. That’s the way it may be for Chelsea and you have to accept that.
“Some of the things we’ve seen at Chelsea, such as closing the club shop and stopping kids from getting Mason Mount on the back of their shirts, I don’t agree with that and I certainly don’t want Chelsea to go to the wall.
“But, if that’s my opinion of it, I certainly don’t want Chelsea fans questioning that opinion next time I go there because it’s exactly what they have done for the last 20 years.”
However, Gary Neville hopes the government will allow Chelsea to be sold but admits events surrounding Abramovich’s ownership have served as a wake-up call – both for football as a whole and for himself personally – about where the game’s money comes from.
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