Emmanuel Petit blasts Chelsea owners for selling Conor Gallagher

Emmanuel Petit has taken shots at the Chelsea owners for selling Conor Gallagher to Atletico Madrid. He believes that the Englishman was the club’s best player behind Cole Palmer last season.

Petit stated that Gallagher was a good player to have in Enzo Maresca’s squad and should have been kept at the club. However, he believes that they have mistreated him like they did with Mason Mount last summer and told Android Poker Apps:

“Chelsea should try to keep Conor Gallagher. In modern football, sometimes you don’t have an Englishman in the starting XI and Chelsea need his English presence in the squad. It really reminds me of the Mason Mount situation, both players were happy to stay at the club and both have been forced out. Gallagher, alongside Cole Palmer, was the only positive player last season.”

He added that the replacements signed by Chelsea are not good enough to replace Gallagher and said:

“Even if he leaves Chelsea, I don’t want to see him leave the Premier League – he deserves more than what’s happening to him with Atletico Madrid. Gallagher belongs in England, he’s built up his career through loan moves and then became captain at Chelsea, he deserves better than this. Why are Chelsea getting rid of their best midfielder for loads of unknown young stars? It’s a massive gamble to splash millions on these foreign players, if I was Gallagher I’d be so pissed off, it’s a pity.”

Conor Gallagher is set to join Atletico Madrid for a reported €42 million deal this week.