ESPN FC’s Steve Nicol and Craig Burley discuss Chealsea blocking Conor Gallagher, who is on loan with Crystal Palace, from playing in Saturday’s FA Cup semifinals matchup.
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Galliger is on loan from cfc that means he cat play end off its the rules historically rules
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Get over it craig. gullit didnt pick u end the Chelsea hate maybe if you didnt play for Chelsea the Espn might not have happened be grateful because its not because ur a Derby legend
No, that's a bich move
why waste time discussing about this when he agreed and signed a loan agreement not to play against his parent club Chelsea during his loan
The same people that say you shouldn’t cry about the hand ball rules, are crying about the loan rules. Rules should be followed, and if you don’t agree with it change them and stop scapegoating.
Dislike these kind of disgusting agendas from the media against Chelsea.
Why is this even an issue. Rules are rules. Keep crying salty fans.
Graig Trying so hard to spit as many Nonsense as he possibly can..
-This is chelsea that’s under sanctions
-this is chelsea that asked Middlesbrough to play behind closed doors so they’ll gain advantage 😂
– this is chelsea that tried everything this season to gain Advantage 😂
Someone should tell that clown to breath when he’s talking about chelsea cos the hate is killing him…
Can literally see it in his eyes that he can’t stand chelsea winning another cup after celebrations a club World Cup
Absolutely.
He is chelsea player..it's not chelsea problem…if they think he should play tell premier leauge to do it for everyone..
He will get lots of final experiences in future ..so semi should not became its future highlight …he will won lots off trophies with its real club..in future..
This an utterly ridiculous discussion. The loan ruling has been followed in the PL & Cup competitions and there is no exception for Palace & Gallagher. Why is this a point of discussion? Common sense folks, use it sometimes.
It's a conflict of interest anyway.
Your player, your loan terms. Take it or leave it. Closed. Nothing new.
Not blocking him would be disrespectful to him…it's basically saying you're not good enough to make any difference. They are 100% right to block him
I thought the rules are there to ensure there is no conflict of interest…
no I think Conor should have been able to play .
They didn’t block him from playing. A base level of actual research into the competition rules & some qualified journalism would have told you that, but anything that makes Craig Burley feel better about getting bombed out at Chelsea because he wasn’t good enough I guess… 🙄🤦♂️
I don't know why people are making a big deal about this as if Chelsea are being "mean" to Gallagher. They are perefectly in the rules to do so, it's part of his contract that he doesn't play against Chelsea, so why the big debate? Chelsea are not going to allow one of their up and coming players to play against them.I'm gutted for Conor that he will miss out on a Cup Semi-final that's the luck of the draw as they say.
People are allowing the meotion of the occasion to cloud their judgement, if it wasn't a cup semi- final and and earlier round or a league game it wouldn't be an issue.
At least he'll get to play the final against Liverpool
And what if Gallagher played and scored an OG. The amount of things he'd be accused of.
his not palace player his a Chelsea player dude
Remember how Chelsea desperately wanted Emerson back but Lyon refused. The rules are the rules.
If the gov can just raid chelsea from abramovich without even a trial, I dont see no issue with chelsea go along with the RULES
What is this? Is Chelsea right ? Such a stupid and needless debate. Everyone knows the rules so what exactly is the purpose of this video? Palace should be grateful to Chelsea for loaning the player to them in the first place.
Who takes ESPN serious show is hella bias
It should be common sense that clubs establish during loan negotiations that the loanee doesn't play against his parent club in any competition.
Chelsea is right in doing this…which is more I can say about PSG considering that they loaned out Marcin Bulka to Nice and he single-handedly knocked PSG out in the league cup.
It’s funny how non chelsea fans want him to play lol. Why would chelsea do that ?
yes. there would always be questions if he underperformed, or if he did well, did his future team take it easy on him. it's lose lose for him and chelsea.
Its the rules…non issue. Has nothing to do with Chelsea at all. Say that and end the conversation.
Why we didnt disscused in last season when lingard was not playing west ham vs utd game .If its chelsea espn tries everything to run anti chelsea propoganda
Rules are rules. They signed it during the loan. Why they wanna change that is appalling
Rules are rules. You should discuss before signing on doted line. We don’t like handballs given/not given in the penalty shouts but again rules are rules unfortunately isn’t it?
Craig should take a few deep breathes under water 🤡
Why is this even up for debate? The clause that stops the player from playing against his parent club is and has always been a common part of loan agreements. Palace asked if Chelsea could make an exception for the occasion and Chelsea said no, which they have every right to do. End of story.
Any other team but chelsea this would not be talked about
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One time Loanee player Ruben Loftus Cheek, can play against his old team. But the current loaned player cannot play against his club. Guess what Ruben Loftus cheek scored the opener. What a crazy rule.
Bully Chelsea
The rule is there to protect both the player and club, if the player plays bad palace wont be happy as they could feel he didnt want to play well against parent club, if he plays good and scored the winner he wont be able to return to chelsea without being disliked by his team mates, hence why the rule is there and why it is essential for it to be there
Great Steve. 👍👍👍👍