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The icon of Chelsea says he regrets moving to Liverpool.

Joe Cole has revealed that he regrets joining Liverpool from Chelsea in 2010, admitting a move to Tottenham Hotspur might have made more sense at the time. In hindsight, the former England star most wishes he'd actually taken his career abroad to sunnier climes instead.
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Cole had been one of the key players in Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea side that won back-to-back Premier League titles in 2005 and 2006, as well as emerging as a starter for England. But he missed a significant chunk of 2008/09 with a long-term knee injury, as well as the start of 2009/10, which he has now explained led to the end of his time at Chelsea as contract negotiations stalled.

Unable to fully recover, he never returned to his former level and – a decent loan spell at Lille aside – spells at West Ham United and Aston Villa failed to kickstart things.

Cole’s last game in England was for Coventry City in League One, aged 34 in 2016, before joining Florida-based Tampa Bay Rowdies of the NASL – generally thought of as America’s second tier at the time – and experiencing an improvement in his injured knee due to the warm climate made him believe he should have pursued a move to La Liga or a southern Serie A club instead of choosing Liverpool.

“I done my knee [in January 2009] and that was probably the start of the end of my career because I was never the same player after that. I done everything, ACL, PCL, MCL, and I was out for 11 months,” Cole explained on the latest episode of John Obi Mikel’s The Obi One Podcast.

Contract talks with Chelsea had been underway before the injury and he admitted he could see why the club “pulled back from negotiations…Chelsea were right, from a business perspective”.

Early in 2010, Cole’s chance to get some more game time, by now playing under new boss Carlo Ancelotti, came when several players departing for the Africa Cup of Nations. He did enough to command a regular place in the team and Chelsea put a new contract offer on the table.

“I played every game, six, seven or eight games in a row, played really well and then they started, ‘We can offer you this new contract.’ It wasn’t at what it was before,” he explained.

“My ego got involved a little bit and football was more of a struggle. I would play, knee would blow up. I couldn’t do certain things that I used to be able to do. I needed an ice pack, I was in a lot of pain… it’s very rare you get back to where you were.”

Cole went on to play and score in a title deciding-win against Manchester United at Old Trafford, but a back injury meant he was then unable to train for a few days, admitting he “really wrecked myself.”

He added: “It got to the end of the season…my body was just failing me.”

 

 

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