Chelsea star told to stop ‘moaning’ amid Manchester United transfer links

Jamie O’Hara has slammed Christopher Nkunku for ‘moaning’ astir his crippled clip – but warned Chelsea not to currency successful connected their sulking star.

Nkunku joined Chelsea successful a £52m woody from RB Leipzig successful 2023 but helium lone made 11 Premier League appearances past play owed to wounded issues.

The 26-year-old impressed successful pre-season nether Enzo Maresca and looked acceptable to play a cardinal relation successful the Italian’s new-look broadside but has not started a Premier League crippled since the opening time of the season.

Only afforded starts successful cupful competitions, the Frenchman has inactive proved his worth, notching up 9 goals successful 7 games successful the Carabao Cup and Conference League combined.

However, reports suggest that the guardant is increasing progressively frustrated astatine his deficiency of league minutes, with Manchester United one of the clubs credited with an involvement if the Blues look to determination Nkunku on.

But erstwhile Tottenham midfielder O’Hara believes the nine should not adjacent deliberation astir selling Nkunku and said the guardant indispensable larn to hold his turn.

‘Chelsea should perfectly not beryllium selling Christopher Nkunku,’ O’Hara told  Grosvenor Sport. ‘He’s a apical subordinate and they can’t beryllium getting escaped of him successful January.

‘I don’t cognize what he’s moaning astir to beryllium honorable – I cognize he’s not playing week successful and week retired successful the Premier League, but that’s just play to the likes of Nicolas Jackson and Cole Palmer.

‘Nkunku conscionable has to woody with it – helium was injured each of past play and has travel backmost this year, truthful helium needs to combat his mode backmost into the team.

‘Chelsea are doing good and are successful a bully spot astatine the moment, truthful Nkunku conscionable needs to judge it and combat for his position.

‘Big clubs request apical players successful each position, truthful I can’t spot Chelsea cashing successful connected him. Manchester City person apical players successful each country doubly over, truthful if Chelsea privation to get to that benignant of level, past worldly similar this is conscionable portion and parcel of being successful.’

Earlier this month, erstwhile Blues defender Glen Johnson echoed O’Hara’s sentiment, insisting that Nkunku would beryllium ‘mad’ to see leaving Stamford Bridge astatine this constituent of his career.

‘His commencement to beingness astatine the nine was rather pugnacious erstwhile helium suffered his wounded and we don’t cognize if he’s afloat implicit that yet,’ Johnson told Betfred.

‘In spells, we’ve seen immoderate truly bully worldly from him and arsenic Chelsea are going successful the close direction, helium would beryllium huffy to leap vessel now.

‘They’re successful a overmuch amended presumption present and if helium tin get acceptable and get himself successful the starting eleven, past Chelsea person a bully subordinate connected their hands. He conscionable doesn’t look afloat acceptable yet.’

Nkunku featured successful some matches for France implicit the astir caller planetary interruption – starting successful a 3-1 distant triumph against Italy – but was incapable to get connected the scoresheet.

The guardant volition anticipation to unit his mode backmost into Maresca’s first-team plans erstwhile the Blues question to look Leicester City successful the league connected Saturday.

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