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Kia blasts Liverpool legend Carragher over Arsenal claims

Agent Kia Joorabchian has hit back at Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher after being blamed for Arsenal’s problems this season.

Carragher has described some of their signings, including Willian, Cedric Soares and David Luiz, as a “joke”, and questioned whether Joorabchian – who represents all three – was responsible.

Joorabchian said: “First and foremost, I understand Jamie’s job was saved by Gary Neville when he had that very bad incident and I understand he wants to protect this brand by making comments that are not correct.

“I’m very surprised because Jamie is one of the people that monopolises Sky Sports commentary. Sky Sports producers pay a lot of money to him – hundreds of thousands, so I can’t understand why he doesn’t check his facts before he speaks.

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“The fact is I had nothing to do with the signing of Willian. If Jamie had bothered to check with Mikel [Arteta] or [technical director] Edu, they would have said Mikel presented three different times to convince Willian to be his number one signing at Arsenal. He had an opportunity to stay at Chelsea and to go to two other Premier League clubs. [Inter] Miami made him a very nice offer. Mikel convinced him to stay.

“Furthermore, David Luiz was in the same situation. Mikel spent a lot of time in lockdown to speak to him and persuade him to stay. Gabriel was on the list of at least three other clubs.

“But the main point is – why do Sky pay Jamie Carragher so much money to talk rubbish? Surely he has the contacts through Sky or himself to make a phone call to Edu or even Sky to put a question in through the press department. Why make an assumption that is going to create an atmosphere that is very bad throughout the club?”

He continued: “Obviously he’s a little bit jealous because he hasn’t won as many trophies as David [Luiz] has in his hallway, nor Willian. They’ve won everything and he hasn’t. He feels aggrieved to them. He criticised David very badly last year when he had one bad game against Man City but never complimented him when he was man of the match in the FA Cup Final against Chelsea.

“One of the thing everyone misses – when you put people on TV like Jamie Carragher… the producers have to have that sense of saying ‘hey, this is not a personal vendetta’. I have so much information on Jamie Carragher – if I tried to spit it out on TV…”

Joorabchian then leapt to the defence of his players and told Carragher to “do his homework”.

“David [Luiz] has had the impact. He delivered the FA Cup, one of the key members. Everyone knows the way he plays – with his heart.

“I think with new players coming into the team such as Cedric, he’s had a little time to get into the team and needs to have his chances. He hasn’t had those chances and until he does we cannot criticise. Willian is neither ten games into the season and he has nothing to prove whatsoever.

“If Jamie had done a bit of homework he may have said, “Ok who signed [William] Saliba for £30m that we’ve never seen?” You cannot talk about players that are trying to adapt.”

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