Football pundit Gary Neville believes that Chelsea are now going to be heavily relying on Xabi Alonso to sort them out.
The club is an absolute mess, but the appointment of Alonso has been a very positive move. However, a toxic and awful season so far became even worse yesterday when Chelsea lost 2-1 to Sunderland to miss out on any kind of European football for next season, and finish 10th in the league. It’s completely embarrassing for the owners who will go into their 5th season in charge at the club next season, once again not playing in Europe. They couldn’t even manage the Conference League qualification.
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Neville says it’s been a disastrous season for Chelsea but to be honest, that is putting it kindly. Alonso is now being looked at as the saviour at the club, but he’s got a huge task on his hands now.
Neville on Alonso
Xabi Alonso managing Real Madrid. (Photo by Florencia Tan Jun/Getty Images)
Asked whether Alonso had ‘one hell of a job on his hands’ after Chelsea ended their campaign with defeat at Sunderland, Neville said on his Sky Sports podcast: ‘Yeah!
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‘We’ve been talking about how big a job Roberto De Zerbi has at Spurs, Xabi Alonso has to do exactly the same there at Chelsea.
‘He’s been made the manager but he may as well have been called manager, sporting director, owner, the lot.
‘It seems like they’ve given him the keys to the club and asked him to sort it out because Chelsea are struggling, what a disastrous season it’s been for them.’
In other news today
You can check out our full match report of the embarrassing 2-1 defeat away at Sunderland in our final game of the season from yesterday, as terrible as it was.
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Interim boss Calum McFarlane keeps telling us the Chelsea players are trying their hardest – we’re not seeing the evidence of that – because it’s a load of nonsense.
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