Jamie Carragher savaged by Kate Abdo dig on his replacement - "Is he available?"

26 October 2023 , 10:42

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The CBS panel were involved in contract talk on Wednesday night

The CBS Sports studio were at it again on Wednesday night as Kate Abdo joked with Jamie Carragher about replacing him with Gary Neville.

The Sky Sports pair have become a regular duo on our screens, but Carragher goes elsewhere to offer his opinion on Champions League coverage. He sits alongside Abdo, Thierry Henry and Micah Carragher on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.

Conversation this week turned to contract length with CBS landing the rights to the Champions League for several more years. Carragher then began quizzing his colleagues on how long they were tied down for, before he himself was asked.

The former Liverpool man revealed he had around 18 months left on his current deal with CBS, to which Abdo quipped back with: "Is Gary Neville available in 18 months?" Henry and Richards both gasped before Carragher asked: "Oh you want him do you? Is it the Man United connection?"

He also then claimed that Neville "didn't have the banter" to exist on the panel before Richards suggested they go to a break. Sky last had the rights to the Champions League back in 2015, but since then UK viewers have watched it on BT Sport and now on TNT Sports.

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Carragher and Neville have shown themselves to have strong chemistry in the studio, producing a popular blend of insight and laughter. Over the years they've mocked each other, especially when either Liverpool or United are under fire.

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They regularly go at each other on Twitter but Carragher insists their relationship works because neither of them are overly sensitive. He said previously: "I think it's worked out because we're both pretty similar and that Liverpool / Manchester United thing, obviously people play into that and it's a huge rivalry between those two football clubs and that will never change.

"But I think it helps that we don't take ourselves too seriously and we probably see the game from a similar point of view as well and also we're not that sensitive so we can pretty much say anything to each other and it's not going to cause a problem. Everyone is different and sometimes people are a little sensitive and that's fine, but I don't think that's something that you would describe the two of us like."

Samuel Meade