‘You have to be mentally ready to… – Rio Ferdinand hits back at Craig Burley critics at Chelsea
According to latest reports, former Chelsea midfielder Craig Burley criticised the Blues for celebrating our Club World Cup success.
Rio Ferdinand, who won the Club World Cup with Manchester United, has hit back at Burley and insists the likes of Palmeiras and Al-Hilal – Chelsea’s semi-final opponents – are ‘decent teams’ with ‘huge talent’.
Ferdinand said: “You’ve got to be mentally really ready to play these games or you come up short. They are difficult,”
“We played in it and we won it, but the games weren’t easy and they are decent teams.
“The stature of the teams are very different and the resources that these teams have got compared to the English teams is like night and day, but on the football pitch the skill is a leveler and these guys have got talent.
“They’ve got huge talent and internationals in their team.”