A year after his ruthless Sky Sports Monday Night Football Assessment of Chelsea's Squad, Jamie Carragher was made to eat his words after their success of Club World Cup
Jamie Carragher was made to look foolish by Chelsea after his sharp Sky Sports Assessment from The Blues' Squad last year. The side of Enzo Maresca added the Club World Cup to their recent UEFA Conference League victory on Sunday.
Last summer, Chelsea came under heavy fire for their apparently endless editions and recruitment in the rotating door style. Several players in the first team were frozen from the team and more than £ 200 million was spent on 10 new faces, with their cohort at one point to 43 to 43.
These promotions made Sky Pundit and Liverpool -icon Carragher furious, who begged the blues to stop signing players, while they burned 'not a good club'. Fast ahead 12 months, and they are world champions.
“Chelsea just has to stop buying players, and players have to stop signing for Chelsea,” Carragher started in August 2024 from Sky Sports' Monday Night Football. “If I was a player, I don't know why you would sign for Chelsea, the only reason you would sign is because someone could say:” You get a seven -year -old deal and big money and that is a guarantee for seven years. “
“You know what I would say? Back as a player, sign a four -year -old deal at a good club and support yourself to do it right, and if you have to do a renewal, your money will go up.
“I don't understand why players sign seven -year -old deals. It is not a young or exciting team. Great football teams need competition, but every football team in which I played, there were seven or eight players who knew they were playing every week, and then you have six or seven players fighting for the positions.
“Then you have another six or seven who know they are squad players. That's a healthy team. If you have 40 players, how are they all in one dressing room, how do you put on a training session?”
Although they only managed a fourth placed Premier League finish, Chelsea won the Conference League and added the club World Cup to their cabinet on Sunday, making Champions League holders PSG 3-0 in the final.
Chelsea co-owner Todd Boehly, who helped last summer a lot of the company to orchestrate that Carragher was in the vicinity of Talksport after the victory and admitted that this project is always familiar.
“Well, we could not have wished for a better result for our boys, who did so good work and trained so hard, really came together in America under the leadership of Enzo and his direction,” Boehly began.
“Nobody gave us the chance to beat PSG, and the boys really flourished and grew. They see how they have been very special in America in recent weeks. I think [co-sporting directors] Laurence [Stewart] and Paul [Winstanley].
“We have always known that what happens on a certain day. The opportunities we thought we had and could finish with a piece or two … The boys, really what Enzo did. We are big believers, we always knew in the value of the project.
“So I think of course it came together brilliantly, and that's just a chance that you can't predict. But we hope we wake up every day, the chances are that Chelsea will win something big.”