Jamie Carragher has made the shock claim that Chelsea’s dismal Premier League form is a good thing for football.
Managerless Chelsea were beaten 3-1 by a heavily rotated Nottingham Forest on Monday afternoon, in doing so recording their sixth consecutive Premier League defeat.
The loss sees them slump to ninth in a significant blow to their hopes of qualifying for next season’s Champions League.
Chelsea’s BlueCo ownership have burned through several managers and sunk well over £1bn into player recruitment since buying the club from Roman Abramovic in 2022, but have not seen their investment matched in results.
They spent big last summer, too, with new arrivals including Alejandro Garnacho and Liam Delap dramatically underperforming their price tags.
The club will be knock as world champions for another three years after they beat Paris Saint-Germain in last summer’s Club World Cup final, but they have not lived up to that title this season, crashing out of the Champions League in the last-16.
Carragher reads the club’s ‘shocking’ season as proof that money does not buy happiness.
He told Sky Sports: “It's shocking and it comes from the top. There's five or six really top players on the pitch today and they've been beaten by Nottingham Forest's B team.
“Less than 12 months ago, they were taking PSG to the cleaners. There's no connection between the players and the staff, the players and the fans.
“In some ways, it's a good thing because it tells you that football isn't just all about spending money, buying players and this revolving door.
“It's about creating togetherness and there's nothing there. They look like a broken football club right now.”
Chelsea do still have a chance to win some silverware this season, but must dramatically improve on their current form if they are to have any hope of turning over Manchester City in the FA Cup final, which comes in just 12 day’s time.
