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Daniel Childs

Manchester United player leaks remind Chelsea why Roman Abramovich cannot tolerate circuses

It was telling that the first club Gary Neville thought of referring to when discussing Manchester United's recent player leaks to the media was Chelsea.

"I remember sitting there at lunchtime with our team, and they were getting messages of team news being leaked and the manager being slagged off, and I sat there thinking, does this actually happen?" Neville said on Sunday.

The incident Neville recalled to was the final days of Andre Villa-Boas as Chelsea's head coach ten years ago when he was covering a Blues game for Sky Sports.

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