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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Liverpool and Manchester United legends, have slammed Chelsea owner, Roman Abramovich over his statement amid global rage over Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Abramovich released a statement on Saturday, which was on his ownership of Chelsea.<\/p>\n

In his statement on Saturday evening, Abramovich said he is \u201cgiving trustees of Chelsea\u2019s charitable foundation the stewardship and care\u201d of the Blues.<\/p>\n

The announcement meant that the Russian billionaire remains the club\u2019s owner, despite calls for him to give up the club following Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

And Neville has now hit out at Abramovich\u2019s gesture, saying it was clear that the Russian billionaire is still in charge, while Carragher said that Chelsea \u201cembarrassed themselves\u201d with their statement.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Sky Sports, Neville said, \u201cOne of the smartest things that I think Roman Abramovich has done over the last 20 years is not to speak, not to make statements.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause the statement that he made last night left more questions than answers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf anything I thought it was, to be fair, a cowardly approach to sort of throw a hospital pass to good people on the charitable and foundation board, when it\u2019s quite clear he runs the club with Marina [Granovskaia, club director] and [technical and performance advisor] Petr Cech.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no way that the charitable foundation of Chelsea is running the club and I\u2019m not quite sure why Roman Abramovich made that statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he wanted to make a statement of any note, it would have been whether he supports the war in Ukraine or he actually doesn\u2019t support the war in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

On his part, Carragher said, \u201cI don\u2019t think they have handled it really well. With a couple of statements, they have put out, I think it has been really poor and they have let themselves down badly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think they did that well either.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not worked out well for them at all, I think they have embarrassed themselves. They should have been a lot stronger in what they said, and regarding Roman Abramovich passing on to Chelsea trustees, that\u2019s not him relinquishing the club, stewardship is not ownership. It is completely different because he is still in charge, he is still running it, which is fine.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut to not actually mention in his initial statement what was going on in Ukraine, I thought was really poor.\u201d<\/p>\n

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