Do Chelsea Risk Losing Joe Cole?
Hardly surprising we’re hearing stories in the press today telling us Joe Cole isn’t a happy boy.
Cole was taken off in the 84th minute against Southend on Saturday – nothing new there considering Cole always seems to be the player hauled off – this time though, his frustration was a little more apparent than usual. This time, Cole strode down the tunnel without as much as looking in his manager’s direction and now we’re hearing he wants a bit of a chat with Scolari to find out where he stands.
Could anyone blame him? I hardly think so. Since September he hasn’t been given 90 minutes in a game and whilst that’s occasionally been down to injury, more often than not he just seems the easy option for managers to sacrifice. Take the game against Fulham, does anyone have any idea why it was Cole, who was probably our best player on the field at the time who was hauled off? Because I still can’t work that one out.
How he’s remained as committed to Chelsea as he has been since he arrived in 2003, given that he’s at times had the right piss taken out of him by managers, is beyond me. He has the potential to be one of the very best players in the Premier League and he’s certainly sought after by other clubs and yet Chelsea managers continue to risk losing him.
Joe Cole has 18 months left on his current contract and up til now has seen any talks put on hold but with Tottenham and Citeh sniffing round the unhappy player, if Chelsea want to hang onto him, maybe it’s time they started talking?
Filed under: Current Players, Rants, Rumours
If Joe Cole wants to leave let him go… because he has no competition he wants to hole the club to ransome, during the era of Robben and Duff, he knows his spot on the bench… he wont be missed, he spend more time doing steopovers than passing to his teamate!!
Joe Cole should come to the world champions Manchester United, he would be treated like a world class player rather than just another squad player in the chelsea ranks, perfect replacement for the welsh wizard Mr Giggs, in return i supose we could give you nani he aint too bad
Ola Ray - totally disagree with you there, Cole’s done anything but hold the club to ransom. Whilst Lampard happily dragged his talks out until he’d squeezed everything but blood out of us, Cole was happy to put talks on hold and concentrate on this season.
United4ever - the sad part about that from a Chelsea perspective (or at least from the perspective of a Chelsea supporter who appreciates Cole) is that its probably true.
Please o Please …. dont sell JCole. For me, after Lamps, JCole is our best midfield player. I totaly understand his frustrations. I hope Scolari doesnt take him off that often and he is happy again and stays at chelsea for next 3 years atleast.