Jamie Carragher has come out will full force to berate his former club Liverpool FC for announcing their status as a founding member of the new European Super League and subsequent participation in the continental club competition.
The Reds on Sunday put out a joint statement alongside 11 of the other founding clubs of the newly formed tournament which declared that the Super League would be a breakaway competition and this has set off a chain of events amongst the footballing community who have insisted for the Super League to be cancelled.
Carragher, an Anfield hero himself, in his column for The Telegraph, has insisted that he feels sickened by his former side backing the formation of a breakaway tournament that threatens the very existence of the current continental and domestic competitions in world football.
“The more I read about the European super league proposals, the more it seems Liverpool’s owners must like empty stadiums because all they have done is raise the likelihood of another mass walkout.
“That is the beauty of league football – where every action and point matters.
“That is why, as a former Liverpool player, it sickens me that my club’s reputation is being damaged by the arrogance of an ownership group that wants to remove such peril, creating a culture where we no longer need to fight to earn our success.
“That is the antithesis of everything I understand football – especially in my city – to stand for.
“To be tainted by association with the European super league is bad enough, but Liverpool’s apparent leading role in threatening football’s competitive ideals.
“The very ideals which allowed the club to emerge from England’s second division to become six-time European champions – is a betrayal of a heritage they are seeking to cash in on.
Nor Liverpool FC boss Jurgen Klopp nor any of the players at Anfield have commented upon the escalating situation so far as they prepare for Monday’s top-flight game at Elland Road which pits them against Leeds United.
Klopp’s men would be eyeing a top-four finish nearing the end of the 2020-21 Premier League campaign in the coming weeks and a win over Leeds will come as a massive boost to the Merseysiders.
