Chelsea operate better when they are universally hated on – Talk Chelsea

Both Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher had their weekly rant on Chelsea and Chelsea’s owners this week.

Whether you agree or disagree with them, you can not doubt the fact that both of them, and the majority of the media in fact, just hate Chelsea Football Club. And you know what? That’s exactly how I like it.

They hated us in our most successful era so far under Jose Mourinho. They hated Jose himself. We had players who were real b*****d players in our squad, and we didn’t care. We were winning it all and they were all crying. Opposition fans hated us, they were crying too, and all that mattered was that Chelsea as a club were sticking their middle finger up to the entire world. I loved that.

I still get rival fans telling me that we won things with oil money even now. I still see them saying we would be nothing without Roman Abramovich. That carries weight of course because we were literally on the brink of administration when he took over. But having them moan about Chelsea signing all the players and ‘buying success’ and winning everything, I bloody loved it.

I love that Chelsea are hated, it’s how we operate the best. It’s been a great breeding ground to fuel our success.

And now people like Neville and Carragher just seem to have hated our owners since the day they even arrived and gave them no chance at all. I don’t know why, maybe because they are American business people with no knowledge about football when they first came in? Who knows. Maybe they both just hate Chelsea as a football club. Maybe a bit of both.

But when the media are going at Chelsea, wasting their entire segment speaking about Chelsea, when they are invested in everything we are doing, I only see that as a good thing. A certain writer from The Times literally lives for our demise, he waits for it, and many other journalists are the same. Not all of them of course, but many of them.

When they are slating Chelsea, I love it. Let them hate. The only way to respond to hate is to stand up, succeed, and let them see you’re shining. Chelsea, it’s over to you to do that once again now just as you did in the 00s!