Arsenal legend Thierry Henry has told Chelsea owner Todd Boehly to ‘learn your own lesson’ after he suggested that the Premier League should introduce an all-star game.
The American businessman isn’t even comfortable in his Chelsea hotseat, after replacing Roman Abramovich as owner, but he thinks the Premier League ‘learning’ from American sports can help raise more money in English football.
Like it doesn’t have enough already, eh?!
That idea has sparked quite the debate in English football, with some liking the idea of Tottenham, Arsenal and Chelsea players coming together to pit their talents against clubs from Manchester and Liverpool, to name a few.
But others simply don’t like the idea and think American sports, and their ideas, shouldn’t be mixed with what happens in Europe because they do things very differently.
One of those is promotion and relegation, something which just doesn’t exist in American sport, but it’s what brings drama and entertainment to football in Europe.
Nonetheless, when the idea of the all-star game was put forward to Premier League legend Henry, as well as Boehly suggesting football in England can ‘learn’ from American sports, he didn’t take too kindly to what he was hearing, as he told CBS Sports (14/09/22 at 7:30 pm).
“Did he say ‘they can (learn) a lesson?'” asked Henry. “What does that supposed to mean? What are you trying to teach? I prefer that word ‘an example’. The word lesson is a bit. What are you doing to teach us?
“I don’t like them (Boehly’s idea) because this is Europe and it doesn’t work like that. A team goes up and down. An all-star game, for what?! No, no. Maybe (the public will like it). But you asked me and no.
“The comment about de Bruyne and Mo Salah (Boehly thinking they were products of Chelsea’s academy), just learn your own lesson, then come back and teach us something.”
TODD BOEHLY NEEDS TO FOCUS ON CHELSEA
The issue here is that Boehly hasn’t even been successful at Chelsea, because he has only been at the club for a few months, yet he thinks he can throw ideas around for the rest.
Perhaps focus on Chelsea, and try to get them back to winning ways because, from his perspective, he sacked Thomas Tuchel for a reason and how he felt things weren’t working at Stamford Bridge.
Then, come back with that ‘all-star’ idea in a few years time, so fans can chuck it in the bin because the last thing English football needs is for the game to be richer.
The stupid amount of money in the game is already alienating working-class fans from what the game is supposed to be about, for the people, so adding another dose of millions isn’t going to exactly make things better.
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