Jamie Carragher is not everyone’s favourite pundit, but what he does have going for him is a fearlessness to say what he thinks about any team in the league.
The rivalry the Liverpool teams he played in had with Chelsea sometimes makes it feel like he’s being harsh on us, but by and large he’s pretty fair. His take on our season so far, and our decline as a trophy winning force, chimes with what many Blues fans would say themselves:
“I’ve got to say I’ve been really disappointed with them. I never thought they could win the league at any stage because of the goalkeeper and the centre-forward, they’re not at the level. The centre-backs are not at the level either,” Carragher said on Sky’s The Overlap US, in quotes picked up by TeamTalk.
“But this drop-off will be a real worry for the people at the top of the club. If they don’t get Champions League football next season, having not been there for a couple of years and spent that amount of money, that’s a disaster. They went out of the Carabao Cup really early, now they’re out of the FA Cup,” the former defender continued.
“You have to remember Chelsea have been a winning machine for about 20 years. They’ve now gone two or three years without a trophy and the supporters aren’t used to it. I think real questions will be asked of the hierarchy if they don’t get Champions League football because you can’t really accept it.”
Carragher’s stinging criticism has ring of truth
Harsh but fair, we have to say. Of course the owners aren’t going to blame themselves, but they may well eventually punch downwards at the sporting directors who are the ones with their fingerprints all over this ongoing disaster.
That would cheer up some fans, without doubt.
Jackson out until April. Chelsea dont have any strikers. The sporting directors should have forseen this as this happened in the closing hours of the transfer window, and they could have signed someone.
Our season is finished…
Ongoing disaster? WTF are you talking about? Having supported Chelsea for nearly 60 years I know that there have been many years with no trophies, there have been relegation challenges and there have been far worse players. Roman bought players and managers with some payments that are still under suspicion. When his ownership has been proven to be squeaky clean you can pass judgement on it but don’t make it sound like a huge success until then.