Former Chelsea player, Craig Burley has banged the team, insisting they embarrassed themselves by celebrating Club World Cup victory on Saturday.
The Scottish former midfielder labelled the trophy as ‘nonsense cup’ and that Chelsea embarrassed themselves by celebrating it.
The 50-year-old said Thomas Tuchel and his boys are drooling over their victory in Abu Dhabi, only for their rivals, Manchester City and Liverpool to be contending for the English Premier League trophy.
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Meanwhile, the ex-Celtic star added that the EPL title which the leaders, City and Jurgen Klopp’s guys centre their focus on is more esteemed than the Club World Cup.
The former Inter Milan Striker, Romelu Lukaku and the German forward, Kai Havertz both scored to defeat Abel Ferreira’s men 2-1 on Saturday.
The Sky Blues on that same day were busy dealing with Norwich in a 4-0 win to stretch their lead over the European best club to 16 points.
Burley told ESPN: “I get it they’re off playing in it but I don’t watch this competition, I think it’s nonsense.”
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“They’re off salivating about winning it. you’ve got Lukaku scoring a good header, you’ve got Havertz scoring a penalty. Do it when it matters!”
“They’re off celebrating like they’ve won the World Cup, City have racked up a 16-point lead on Chelsea.”
“And they’re off celebrating out there like they’re the greatest thing since sliced bread. It’s embarrassing.”
He added: “The Club World Cup is nonsense. It’s a showpiece event, it’s a plastic trophy.”
“I don’t buy a £100m striker to win the bloody Club World Cup.”
“They’re 16 points behind, they haven’t got a chance of winning it this year and the way they’re playing they don’t have a chance next year.”
“So spare me this plastic fans, plastic cup, Club World Cup nonsense.”
