Jamie Carragher has accused Chelsea captain John Terry of "tactical voting" in regards to the PFA Player of the Year award.
Terry recently revealed his pick for the award - for which he cannot vote nominated team-mates Eden Hazard and Diego Costa - as Liverpool midfielder Philippe Coutinho.
With Hazard the current favourite to take the PFA crown won by Luis Suarez last season, former Reds defender Carragher believes Terry's vote is more to increase the Belgian's chances of winning rather than Coutinho's.
In his Daily Mail column, Carragher wrote: "I'm sure Hazard and the other leading contenders - in my mind David de Gea and Harry Kane - will benefit from their team-mates being careful with who they vote for.
"John Terry recently revealed he had chosen Liverpool midfielder Philippe Coutinho - who has been very good but not great - as his nomination.
"There's no way Terry can seriously believe Coutinho has been better than De Gea and Kane this season! There is more to it than meets the eye.
"John, I am almost certain, will have gone around Chelsea's dressing room when the ballot papers came in and told the squad - given that you cannot choose one of your team-mates - under no circumstances should they vote for De Gea or Kane, who are Hazard's biggest challengers.
"I'm sure the same happened in the Spurs and United dressing rooms."
Carragher went on to reveal that he had used the same "tactical voting" to benefit former team-mate Steven Gerrard, who won the award in 2006.
"I did exactly the same thing in 2006 when Steven Gerrard won! I was Liverpool’s PFA representative back then and I made it clear that, for Stevie to win, nobody should vote for Thierry Henry or Frank Lampard!
"You might think that’s unfair but it is the same in every dressing room."
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