One pundit has branded a recent decision taken by Chelsea last week as being disrespectful and has slammed the club for doing it.
I’m sure everyone has an opinion on this situation, but it seems that Chelsea fans overall were in belief that it is actually probably a good decision, although not all of them are on board with it.
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We are of course speaking about Chelsea’s decision to leave out some key players from their Europa Conference League squad for the next stages of the competition.
Cole Palmer and Wesley Fofana are two of the key players being left out to protect them from overload and injuries.
But pundit Gabby Agbonlahor believes it’s disrespectful to do this.
Not taking it seriously?
In words cited by The Metro, Agbonlahor said:
‘I think it’s disrespectful to the competition because they wouldn’t do that for the Europa League or the Champions League,’ Agbonlahor said on talkSPORT when asked about Chelsea’s decision.
‘They’re looking at the Europa Conference League like, “Eurgh, we’re Chelsea and we shouldn’t be in this… let’s rest our players who might pick up knocks”.
‘Especially with Lavia and Fofana. They’ve had injury problems and they’re probably thinking, “Rest them in the Europa Conference League, we can play a weakened side and then concentrate on the Premier League with some of these players”.
‘I think it’s quite disrespectful to the competition to be honest.
‘If I’m a team that is playing against them, I’m looking at them and would be like, “Come on, that’s a team talk… they’re resting a few players, not putting them in the squad because they’re thin there, the rest of their squad can beat you”.
‘I do think that if I was playing against them I would be like, “Oh, Palmer doesn’t have to play does he? Is this a rubbish competition?”.
‘But I do get it. You need a rest as well, the players do.’
Who cares what GA thinks, lol! If resting players is “disrespectful” then, by that logic, Pep Guardiola is disrespecting some competition or another every week given how heavily he rotates his squad. It’s an asinine point coming from a former player struggling for relevance. Sorry, Gabby, but this is a hot take you should have just kept to yourself.