Jamie Carragher has hit out at Todd Boehly's comments that English football could take a 'lesson' from US sports by introducing an all-star game and a relegation tournament.
The ex-Liverpool defender believes that the next step might be the revival of the Super League concept, in a similar vein to the major sports leagues in the States.
"What disturbed me most about Boehly’s comments in midweek is that they proved such cynicism to be correct," Carragher wrote in The Telegraph.
"The sentiments which led to the Super League fiasco are not dead, merely in hibernation, with businessmen like Boehly waiting to seize the next opportunity to mould our game into an ill-fitting vision, his comments suggesting English football is not generating as much cash as it should be.
"That is why my Sky Sports colleague, Gary Neville, is so adamant an independent regulator is needed, ensuring what begins as an 'opinion' does not turn into a plan formulated by the most powerful clubs.
"What really annoyed me was the superior tone in which they were delivered. What must worry Chelsea fans is that Boehly is prepared to speak now, think later. Either he has not sought advice about how such comments would be received, or even worse, he has not listened to it."
Boehly has faced a lot of negative feedback for the ideas that he expressed just a few months after his group completed the takeover of Chelsea.
As the previous attempt to set up a breakaway league was also led by American owners of the Premier League clubs, the concerns expressed by Carragher are natural. Still, Boehly has shown no inclination to go down that route so far.
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