I played for Liverpool and teammate’s wife phoned the manager to complain about night out – it alienated him and Thiago Silva could have similar problems

Thiago Silva’s wife’s Chelsea interventions won’t be going down well in the Blues locker room, according to Danny Murphy.

Belle Silva has regularly been vocal on social media during her partner’s Stamford Bridge career, but she may have overstepped the mark after a 4-2 defeat to Wolves.

Posting on X, she wrote: “It’s time to change. If you wait any longer it will be too late.”

Mrs Silva has since apologised for the comment, and Blues manager Mauricio Poechttino, the perceived target of the message, revealed he has talked to Thiago Silva about the situation.

Former Liverpool great Murphy couldn’t believe what he was seeing though, and the talkSPORT pundit recalled his own experiences.

He said: “I find it bizarre that you would get yourself in that situation where a wife, partner or girlfriend, mother, brother or whoever, starts tweeting about your career and the politics of the club and who should do what. 

“It’s beyond my comprehension because it wouldn’t happen on my watch and if it did it would only happen once.”

Remembering an incident in the dressing room at Anfield, he said: “I remember at Liverpool, we had a little party with all the new players in pre-season and we had some adult entertainment and one of the players' wives decided to phone the manager and tell him how disgusted she was that he’d put her husband in the situation.

“He alienated himself somewhat because the lads quickly went, ‘what are you doing?’ That would happen the same on social media. 

“If Thiago Silva was 25 and planning a long career at Chelsea it would be more relevant because what’s next? Is she going to tweet about [Ben] Chilwell’s poor defending next week? Where does it stop? Is she going to tweet about [Nicolas] Jackson missing a header at 2-1? Wait, what?”

Expanding on his experience at Liverpool, he said: “He was an idiot anyway, he wasn’t a popular boy. 

“The same person’s wife decided on a particular night out with partners to tell another Liverpool player that his defending had been atrocious and he needed to sort his off the field antics out, and I’m talking about a Liverpool legend as well.”