Joe Cole set to leave Liverpool for Spurs?

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Joe Cole set to leave Liverpool for Spurs? - ESPN Soccernet

Joe Cole is likely to leave Liverpool after just one season - netting the club a £3 million profit in the process.

Cole was heralded as a major signing last summer when snapped up on a free transfer after leaving Chelsea. But he never recovered from a poor start to his Anfield career, which included a red card on his Premier League debut at home to Arsenal.

Reports in Sunday's press suggest he is set to return home to London - where he has spent the rest of his career - in a £3 million deal to be reunited with Harry Redknapp at Tottenham Hotspur. Redknapp was in charge at West Ham when Cole first broke through into their first team after graduating from the Academy.

Cole, 29, made just nine league starts for Liverpool, with a further 11 appearances from the bench, in a season which was also affected by injury. He started a further seven games in the Europa League.

He has struggled to make himself first choice at club level throughout his career, only once making more than 14 Premier League starts in a campaign since 2005-06.

Liverpool are desperate to get Cole, who earns a reputed £90,000-a-week, off the wage bill as they begin a summer of rebuilding under Kenny Dalglish. He has cost Liverpool £4.1 million in wages: £2,470 for each of the 1,662 minutes he has played

Cole was part of England's squad at the World Cup finals last summer, but has not been selected by Fabio Capello since featuring late in the defeat to Germany, his 56th cap.

The signing of Cole will lead to suggestions that Spurs are planning for the sale of prized asset Luka Modric.
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I don't really understand that last bit at all. Modric plays in CM, but Cole has been used on the wings, hasn't he? I remember Joe Cole in an attacking mid role at Chelsea where he was almost the support striker, but he has never been used in a withdrawn role to keep possession and to pass the ball around. Has he? Modric gets forward, but he is tidy in possession. Joe Cole has the tricks, but he is more like Nani where things don't come off time after time and possession gets lost until it finally comes off and the game is won. Cole's an entertainer, not a disciplined CM.

If anything Joe Cole would indicate that Gareth Bale was moving on, or just that Niko Kranjcar is and needs replacing on the bench.
 
TonyBarretTimes Tony Barrett
Joe Cole to Spurs isn't happening. No interest in him from the North London club.
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It wouldn't be a "£3m profit" anyway, he's cost them almost £5m in wages.
 
I can't believe Liverpool were paying him £90,000 a week. He was still injury prone too. He only played in 20 league games.
 
People have been talking about Cole as a central player for years but the truth is he's not influential enough to gain himself a place there. It could be in reference to the wages he would demand and the need to take others off the wage bill to accommodate another high earner, but chances are it's just another bit of poor journalism with the writer knowing shockingly little about the subject and just throwing in a sensationalist last comment to make it somehow worthy reading.

Wouldn't be surprised to see Spurs in for him again as Harry clearly likes him and he's never really had any reservations about buying players who are deemed failures by their last club, and wouldn't be surprised to see Liverpool want to get rid of him.
 
Ferguson said:
Joe Cole set to leave Liverpool for Spurs? - ESPN Soccernet

If anything Joe Cole would indicate that Gareth Bale was moving on, or just that Niko Kranjcar is and needs replacing on the bench.
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Gareth Bale and Lennon are not going to be fit the whole season, plus they will need rest too. If they hold on to Modric and VDV, then I think Cole is a good signing for them. He does not have to play in midfield, if they have Modric and VDV.

Crouch

VDV

Bale/Cole---------Modric--------Huddlestone--------Lennon

Ekoto--------Dawson------Gallas---------Hutton​
 
Some bloke on Twitter says they'll replace him with Messi.
 
I think Cole would've been a really good player in the middle a few years ago, definitely not now though; seems injuries have caught up on him.
 
Mickey said:
Shit move for both sides tbh. Hes a bit too shit for them (never thought id say that), and they already have too many midfielders.
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How would it be a shit move for Liverpool. They will be over the moon if they can get rid.
 
jrsenior said:
How would it be a shit move for Liverpool. They will be over the moon if they can get rid.
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They'll still be paying half his wages. No way does a team buy him without subsidized wages...
 
Cole might just redeem himself under Harry. I have a feeling he might start performing again. He certainly has the skill but seems to have lost the hunger but if he gets a run of 10 games in the team then he might start nailing down a place again
 
"I've got all the time in the world for him. We haven't made any enquiries about him but I wouldn't sit here and say I wouldn't have him at the club because if I did I'd be lying. I do like him."
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:lol:
 
Mad said:
"I've got all the time in the world for him. We haven't made any enquiries about him but I wouldn't sit here and say I wouldn't have him at the club because if I did I'd be lying. I do like him."
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Harry is every journo's dream - a man with a case of permanent verbal diarrhea.
 
Hope he fails to agree wages, he'll be bleeding Liverpool dry.
 
What a strange move.

Will be playing CL football and all.
 
Fat, overrated, over paid. Has been shit since his first bad knee injury.
 
Lille? Who was the last English footballer to ply his trade in France, Waddle?
 
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