If media reports are to be believed then Joe Cole is on his way out of Anfield this summer, with Tottenham Hotspur apparently readying a £10 million bid for the forgotten man. In a business sense this would be a very good bit of import export for Liverpool, having signed the former Chelsea man on a free transfer, but the arrival of Joe Cole was dubbed one of the best signings of the transfer window, so what has happened to the England international whilst on Merseyside?
During Cole’s short spell at Anfield he has already seen two managers in charge, firstly Roy Hodgson and now Kenny Dalglish. For a new signing it is always hard when the manager who brings you to the team leaves relatively early into your career, but the fact of the matter is that even under Hodgson’s tenure Cole’s form was being criticised, with the former Fulham manager even commenting “He knows he is better than that and he knows he can do better than that”. Every footballer goes through blips in form, but ‘King Kenny’s’ arrival should have made Cole want to start fresh and give his all to impress; although this appears to have failed with the reported selling of the midfielder, so has Cole simply lost the desire to play or are there other issues?
Not playing is obviously not going to help anyone’s fitness, however, in the modern age of football where players have intense and specially designed diets, training programmes and routines, becoming overweight is not a plausible option (call me a hypocrite). But it has become apparent to even Stevie Wonder that Joe Cole has put on a few pounds, surely the former West Ham man hasn’t become the next Benni McCarthy, content to earn his weekly wage by warming the bench?
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i watched the youth team yesterday, they turned up to play everton youth away from home and our keeper was dressed from top to toe in royal blue ?
what does it tell us ? there are some overated personal and or a fashion consious goalkeeper who picked the ball out of the net 4 times – fully deserved, the idiot of a referee never asked him to change his shirt which clashed 100% with the everton players shirts either. all in all a bad deafeat that will hopefully get some heads out of the clouds.
£10 million bid ? ha ha ha, liverpool would be lucky to get £2 million considering the wages cole is on
Why has Joey Cole failed?
For all the reasons we Chelsea fans were mocked for listing in replies to these kind of articles at the beginning of the season.
Transfer coup my arse. And to think he was asking for as much money as Lampard and Terry.
Maybe Chelski knew what they were ding when they let him go free!
Perhaps he is another Keane for Liverpool. Kenny will know what to do that is best for everybody…
Kenny said about Cole and I quote “Form is temporary, class is permanent” and Joe has class to burn, It’s more a question of fitting into a team and just a little luck at the right time. I would keep him. I think Kenny will as well.
low fitness,low effort and unwillingness to track back
@Chelsea fan, 2 goals in the 16 games (started 8 games and the other 8 as a sub) Cole has played in EPL so far, better than the traitor who managed only 1 in 14 games. Now, who is being conned???