Mauricio Pochettino has labelled Gary Neville’s ‘billion-pound bottlejobs’ after Chelsea’s Carabao Cup last defeat as ‘unfair’.
Neville known as Chelsea ‘billion-pound bottlejobs’ following their defeat to an injury-riddled Liverpool facet on Sunday within the Carabao Cup last. The Blues misplaced in extra-time thanks to a Virgil van Dijk objective, one of many few common first-teamers on the pitch for Liverpool late within the recreation thanks to a myriad of accidents.
The defeat to a youthful Liverpool crew got here regardless of the massive quantity of funding put into the Chelsea first-team squad since Todd Boehly and co took over in 2022, with the brand new possession group spending over £1bn on new gamers in latest switch home windows.
Speaking to the press forward of Chelsea’s FA Cup conflict with Leeds United, Pochettino responded to Neville’s feedback, saying: “I have a very good relationship with him but that doesn’t mean that maybe sometimes he can be unfair.
“In my opinion, that was not honest, the remark. He is Manchester United and wanted Liverpool to lose! That was a little bit little bit of it.
“He was frustrated because he was disappointed with the result. He said, ‘I love Pochettino and I was disappointed in this moment’ and he translated his emotions there. I don’t believe he feels like this. When you say something like this it is a big impact and big noise and it is like ‘wow’. He said he feels bad because of what he said.”
Pochettino additionally lambasted the fixation on how a lot Chelsea have spent in latest seasons, pointing to the truth that the membership have spent on younger gamers quite than on established family names.
“Always it’s Chelsea and it always appears ‘£1bn’ and you cannot fight against that idea,” he added. “The problem, which is so annoying, is after eight months people always talk about this £1bn [figure]. I feel it is unfair.
“When Chelsea lose it’s all the time due to, due to, due to [spending too much]. No one says something detrimental about [Liverpool or City]. It’s like, for those who win, you win, for those who lose, you lose, it is OK. Nothing occurs. But in Chelsea it’s fully totally different due to the stress of that £1bn.
“Malo Gusto is 20, Cole Palmer is 21. [They say:] ‘But you paid £50m’. But he’s the same age as a guy who is playing for Liverpool. That is how you judge the team. That is an amazing thing because you say [Liverpool] is a young team – yes, but we were younger than them.”
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