JAMIE CARRAGHER has ripped into Fulham chief Tony Khan over his post-match tweets this week.
The director of football, 37, took to social media to apologise to fans after Scott Parker’s side slumped to a dismal 3-0 defeat at home to Aston Villa.
Jamie Carragher was scathing of Fulham’s defendingCredit: PA:Press Association
Tony Khan tweeted an apology to Fulham fansCredit: Getty Images – Getty
Khan tweeted: “I apologise to Fulham supporters for our performance tonight.
“We’ve looked to add centre-backs since Wembley, I’m sorry we haven’t yet as 2 got COVID + we lost a Free we thought was close + had another issue with a 4th CB. I promise players in + better efforts from this squad.
“I should + will apologise repeatedly for that performance. I’m sorry everybody. We all need to do a better job.
“Everyone at the club for the past year worked really hard to get the team up, & now we need to work significantly harder to stay up. I promise better efforts than today.”
Carragher, 42, was scathing of Khan’s words, however, insisting that such things should be kept private.
He said on Sky Sports: “Clown, getting involved in that.
“The performance was that bad we were actually laughing at some of the defending.
“Fulham are going down, I’ve never been more certain about anything in my life. They need to buy two, maybe three, four defenders.
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Fulham were dreadful in defeat against VillaCredit: AP:Associated Press
“It never works, that. It always ends in tears.
“What would Scott Parker think about that? What do those lads who are playing at the back think about that, who have maybe got to play midweek, got to play at the weekend?
“Just shut your mouth, get on with it, keep your head down.”
Manager Parker, 37, was indeed unhappy with Khan’s posts.
He said: “I just don’t agree with that. You don’t need to apologise for the performance, the performance was there and there was nothing wrong with it.
When you play a football match you can lose it, you can have bad games, you can make mistakes and for that you should never apologise
Scott Parker
“If you want to apologise for a performance that means you are apologising for a lack of work ethic, a lack of desire and lack of energy and people not really bothering.
“When you play a football match you can lose it, you can have bad games, you can make mistakes and for that you should never apologise.
“Every single one of the players worked tirelessly hard during that game.
“As a football club I will accept nothing less than that. I will be the first to have an issue with the team and I would be the first to apologise if that was the case.
“I think Tony is passionate and he obviously wants the best for the team and I totally understand that. But ultimately it’s my job to try to manage a group of players.”
Scott Parker was left fuming with Khan’s postsCredit: Guardian News & Media / Free to use by all titles in perpetuity under NMC agreement
Villa couldn’t believe the ease with which they could scoreCredit: AP:Associated Press
Khan was also in position when Fulham splashed out over £100million in the 2018-19 season, only to immediately be relegated.
And the Cottagers have had a dreadful start once again this time around.
Goals from Jack Grealish, Conor Hourihane and Tyrone Mings sent Fulham crashing to defeat against last season’s strugglers.
And having already lost 3-0 to Arsenal and 4-3 to Leeds, Fulham already appear to be in dire trouble once again.
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
