“It is incredibly arrogant to speak like that”- Premier League legends slam Chelsea owner over North v South contest
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Jamie Carragher and Thierry Henry
Todd Boehly, chairman of Chelsea, has been called “incredibly arrogant” by Jamie Carragher for saying that the Premier League should take a page from American sports and institute a “All-Star game.”
When he suggested that the “All-Star” game, as seen in the NBA and MLB, could help earn money for the English football pyramid, Chelsea’s American co-owner raised a few eyebrows. Boehly also proposed an alternative to the current three-down system for determining Premier League relegation: a “four-team tournament.”
Carragher, Micah Richards, and Henry were all on the panel when the notion was addressed during Champions League broadcast, and all three ex-Premier League players were absolutely perplexed by the offers.
Jamie Carragher and Thierry Henry strongly oppose the idea
”I’ll be honest with you, when I look at that statement I think is incredibly arrogant to speak about a league that you don’t know,” Carragher said.
Jamie Carragher also added ”I’m not as strong as Thierry, I don’t think we should ever discount ideas. Of course, we shouldn’t. The Premier League is an international league with owners, managers, players and that’s what makes it the best.
”I don’t particularly like those ideas but to come and speak like that when he’s not even proved that he can run a Premier League club well yet. I mean he’s sacked a manager after three games having spent £250million. Straight away you’re thinking ‘that’s not right”.
”He’s not made a great start. To speak like that when you’ve been somewhere for six weeks and talk about ‘we’re going to bring what we doing in other American sports, I just think of the American public would feel if an English Premier League football owner then went to the NFL and was saying ‘we do this in the Premier League”.
‘It is incredibly arrogant to speak like that, but even if he’s coming up with ideas to improve league, listen, there’s nothing wrong with ideas. I don’t think many people agree with him.
”I don’t, Thierry doesn’t. Some people may differ with that. But to speak like that when you’ve been in the country for such a short time – and he hasn’t even proven that he’s a good owner of Chelsea yet.”
Henry was also upset with Boehly after the American stated wrongly that Kevin De Bruyne and Mohamed Salah first attended Chelsea’s academy before leaving. Henry added: ”I just want to say something, to comment about the De Bruyne and Mo Salah about the academy, yeah just learn your lesson and then come back and teach us something.”
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