Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville has done nothing but slam Chelsea over the last few seasons under the ownership of Todd Boehly, Behdad Eghbali, and Clearlake Capital.
He doesn’t like Chelsea and he doesn’t like the way the owners have been operating. And to be honest, this has not changed.
However, he has given us a kind and quite surprising season end prediction that to be honest, most Chelsea fans and the owners would take 100% without a doubt!
Neville thinks Chelsea will end this season in 4th place in the Premier League, which is way higher than I’d have expected him to put us. His Sky colleague Jamie Carragher, another one that hates everything about Chelsea right now and how they are operating, has predicted that we will finish in 7th place this season.
Neville still criticising though
Jamie Carragher says getting rid of Pochettino was a huge mistake and has Chelsea finishing 7th or below. (@SkySportsPL)
— Pys (@CFCPys) August 19, 2024
Gary Neville’s Top 5:
Arsenal
City
Man United
Chelsea
Liverpool— Pys (@CFCPys) August 19, 2024
Gary Neville: “I want to know what Chelsea owners know that everyone else doesn’t, the long term contract thing i don’t get it, if they’re successful then you’ll have to keep upgrading the contract and if they fail it’s hard to get them out” (@SkySportsPL)
— Pys (@CFCPys) August 19, 2024
Neville might be putting us in 4th place come the end of this season, but he still has plenty of negative opinions on the owners and lots of critique for them, as seen above.
Neville said: “I want to know what Chelsea owners know that everyone else doesn’t, the long term contract thing i don’t get it, if they’re successful then you’ll have to keep upgrading the contract and if they fail it’s hard to get them out.”
However, we would take a top 4 finish and back in the Champions League spots for the following season, I don’t think the owners would turn that away and neither would fans!
I’ve watched Gary Neville on his YouTube channel and I find him a pretty compelling interviewer and “host.” BUT when he’s the one asked to provide analysis and insight it’s pretty amazing how many times he seems to miss the mark. Frankly, I think he forms most of his opinions based on his gut (like his dislike of Chelsea generally and its American ownership in particular) and then tries to back his way into a twisted logic that rarely holds up under scrutiny. His take on the long-term contracts is just one of many of these instances where the logic of the owners’ policy is quite clear, but Neville doesn’t like it and so he acts as if it’s an outlandish and confusing policy simply because it bucks the conventional wisdom. If it’s such a bad policy then surely such a successful football owner (and mental giant) like Gary Neville can break it down on the merits and show why the economics don’t work! Oh, no wait, he can’t, so he’ll just bluster about long enough that half his audience will THINK he’s made an argument when what the rest of us clearly see is that he’s merely unloaded pile of rubbish in our laps.