“I don't understand why players sign seven-year contracts.”
“Jamie Carragher has told players not to join Chelsea anymore,” the UK's Daily Mail reported on Tuesday (July 20).
Chelsea has been signing a number of players this summer, following on from the previous seasons of 2022-2023 and 2023-2024. Tosin Adarabioyo joined from Fulham, along with Omari Kellyman, Mark Kiwo, Kieran Dewsbury-Hall, Henatu Beiga, Caleb Wiley, Aaron Ancelino, and Pedro Neto. We also added goalkeeper Philip Jorgensen.
Of these players, only Adarabioyo was a free agent signing. The rest of the players were brought in on loan.
In addition, Chelsea are close to signing Joao Felix from Atletico Madrid. Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher had something to say about that.
“Chelsea should stop signing players and players shouldn't sign for Chelsea anymore,” Carragher said. “If I were a player, would I be interested in signing for Chelsea after seeing the current project?” he asked.
“The only reason players sign for Chelsea is money,” Carragher said. It's because someone around them, or their agent, says, 'We can sign you to a seven-year contract with a huge guaranteed weekly wage,'” he said.
“You know what I'm trying to say. You have to have confidence in yourself as a player. You need to sign a four-year contract with the right club and work on yourself to play well. 바카라사이트 If you do that, you can naturally increase your price. I don't understand why players sign seven-year contracts,” he said, criticizing Chelsea's contract structure.
“I would say that a good football team needs competition, but in all the teams I played in my career, there were seven or eight players who knew they were the 'first choice' and six or seven players competing for three positions and they knew they were in the squad. It was a healthy squad,” he recalls.
“What is Chelsea like now? Where is Felix going to play? Is there a place for all these players to change in training? I'm very serious now. Where are all these players going to meet, 40 players, how are they going to train at one time?” he continued.
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