'Maybe he deduced that he wasn’t going to be picked.' Martin Keown believes Andreas Christensen 'couldn’t bear to be involved' in FA Cup final CFC
, having reportedly told boss Thomas Tuchel on the morning of the game he wasn’t available for selection.The Danish international is set to sign for Barcelona this summer, with his contract at Stamford Bridge expiring at the end of the season.
And Keown believes that he must have found out that he wasn’t in the starting XI before deciding he didn’t want to spend the final on the bench. “We haven’t had his take on it but it does seem odd that he played in the Leeds game three days before in a back three,” Keown told talkSPORT.“So maybe he deduced that he wasn’t going to be picked – he was probably given an indication of that the day before the match when they do their run-throughs.
“I don’t want to pick up wages because it’s not right for you and them as a football club. They weren’t paying me a great deal so I could afford to do that. “But you’ve either got principles or you haven’t, so you play the game when you can, which is on the way up.
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