Chelsea co-owner Todd Boehly has come under criticism after the American billionaire proposed the introduction of an All-Star game in the Premier League to raise funds to help the smaller clubs.
Premier League clubs, especially the top six, are exploring different ways of making cash post the Covid-19 pandemic. Most of these top clubs recorded losses post covid and explored ways of raising additional funds.
However, Jamie Carragher has slammed Todd Boehly for the proposed All-Star games in the Premier League and claimed it was arrogant of him to make a such statement after less than four months of owning a club in the Premier League.
What did Jamie Carragher say about Todd Boehly All-Star game in the Premier League?
“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,” Jamie Carragher said
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“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, and 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 from 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.”
Meanwhile, Thierry Henry has also slammed Todd Boehly after he mistakenly claimed Kevin De Bruyne and Mohamed Salah came from the Chelsea academy.
The Chelsea owner at the SALT conference in New York said: ‘We have one of the best academies in the world.
“So if you look at what our academy has developed, our academy has developed Mo Salah, Kevin De Bruyne, more recently Tammy Abraham, Reece James, Mason Mount, Trevoh Chalobah.”
Reacting to those comments on CBS Sports, The Arsenal Icon said: “Did he say a lesson? A lesson? What’s that supposed to mean? What are they trying to teach? A lesson? Are you a teacher or something?’
“The comment about De Bruyne and Mo Salah… just learn your own lessons and then come back and teach us something.”
“No, he did that himself. Did I say that? He did.
“I don’t like them because this is Europe, and it doesn’t work like that.
“Teams go up and down. All-Star game for what? I wouldn’t have liked to have [played in one]. Maybe [the public would like it] but you ask me and nope.”
