Joe Cole

[Blue Armour 4,170]

Cole Regrets move to Liverpool and calling it the biggest club in the country:

And the ex-England player admits he never adapted to life at the Kop and regrets calling Liverpool ‘the biggest club in the country’.

Cole, 31, revealed: “I can only play for teams that I’m passionate about and I think that’s what went wrong for me at Liverpool.

“I didn’t feel a connection with the club or the place that I had at Chelsea and West Ham.

“I had seven great years at Chelsea but the club wanted to go in a certain direction and I wasn’t involved. So I was left with two real options — Liverpool or Spurs.

“Spurs was probably the best option because they were offering me a five-year deal and it meant I could stay in familiar surroundings.

“But I just couldn’t do it, I just couldn’t see myself pulling that Spurs shirt over my head.

“With the rivalry between Spurs and West Ham and Chelsea, it felt a bit mercenary.”

Yet Cole soon realised he was not going to fit in at Liverpool after signing in 2010. He said: “When I joined, the guy interviewing me said ‘you’ve joined the biggest club in the country’ and reeled off the trophies they’d won.

“I just said ‘yeah, if you put it like that, I suppose you’re right’ and Liverpool used that as the headline to the interview.

“I didn’t want to upset anyone so I just went along with it. But obviously they’re not the biggest club in the country any more.

“How do you judge how big a club are? Nottingham Forest won the European Cup twice but they’re not a bigger club than Chelsea.”

Cole, in an interview with the Chelsea fanzine cfuk, also recalls how former Stamford Bridge chairman Ken Bates mocked him for joining the club at the start of the Roman Abramovich era in 2003.

He said: “I rolled in at Chelsea on my first day thinking ‘I’m going to be a big part of this club’.

“Then Sebastian Veron walks through the door with about five agents. Same position as me, costing three or four times as much.

“As soon as I signed, Bates said to me: ‘Congratulations, son, you’ve joined to sit on our bench’.

“I just thought ‘I’ll show you’ and a year later I was playing regularly and Veron was off.”

Now Cole admits West Ham will be his last club. He said: “I was missing London and my family and I had a personal tragedy in December when my brother-in-law died.

“I got an opportunity to go back to West Ham and I don’t want to move any more.”

[gary gordon 1,777]

Cole Regrets move to Liverpool and calling it the biggest club in the country:

Was just about to post this. Love Joe for speaking the truth. I knew he hated leaving us.. Hope he keeps doing well at West Ham.

[Mufassir08 2,400]

Really miss joe,I really liked him as a player.Btw his interview just shows how pathetic liverpool is it's unbelieveble.

[Milan 17,835]

Thank you for posting that! Finally some words from Joey regarding Chelsea FC. After the move there was like nothing which was more than just sad. As now I see, it's thanks to the bloody interviewer.

[robdog 2,084]

“As soon as I signed, Bates said to me: ‘Congratulations, son, you’ve joined to sit on our bench’.

Ha, Ha that was a classic line from Mr. Bates What do you brits call him? A cheeky bastard

[Santiago. 1,500]

Only one Joe Cole.

Would have him back in a heart beat as a utility player. Love everything about the man.

[ANDRECHO 432]

Joe Cole VS Barcelona ..Champions League 8 March 2005 BY ANDRECHO.......

https://vimeo.com/61263822

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Glad he didn't go to Spurs. I have a lot of respect for him for saying that... choosing between Liverpool and Spurs is like deciding between herpes and chlamydia.

[Yeboii 1,844]

One of my fav. chelsea players ever. Loads of respect for this guy.

[Fulham Broadway 16,424]

In the studio with roy keane and lee dixon -great big grin on his face, hes proper Chels

[Reddish-Blue 2,232]

http://www.espnfc.co.uk/story/1870695

Joe Cole moving to Aston Villa on a free transfer

Best of luck to him

[BenIsLegend 475]

Fucking love Joe Cole.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

I still have a hard time forgiving him for walking out on us. offered a new contract multiple times but decided he could further his career elsewhere, big mistake.

[Nero 1,794]

[Beigl 1,387]

Completely forgot about him. One of my favourite players from the early Abramovich years even tough he joined Liverpool.

[Blue Armour 4,170]

Absolutely loved Joe Cole's game, and how he used to link up well with Lampard and Drogba.

I'm not from London, but I always liked the idea of a boyhood Chelsea fan growing up to play for his favorite club and winning 3 titles with them. On top of that, he was an English player with flair unlike any of the others...It might not have all ended in sunshine, but I felt he achieved as much as he could ever possibly want with the club.

[termninja 5,290]

Fucking love Joe Cole.

Old but gold. First time I read it though, brilliant xD

[kmk108 1,186]

Wow, after not being able to get into the Villa first team, he's joined Coventry City on loan.