I have never really understood why West Ham fans have given Joe Cole such an easy ride compared to the likes of Lampard, Ince and Defoe. Present it how you will, the guy jumped ship when we were relegated and happily joined the plastic crew of USSR Chelsea. His allegiance was made abundantly clear a couple of years back when, after scoring a winner against us in the closing minutes at the Bridge, he celebrated in the most offensive manner, rubbing salt into the raging wound. The fact that replays showed he was offside only made matters worse.
Now, let's start with the fact that Cole is already wealthy beyond our wildest dreams. He has God, the West Ham Academy and 'Arry Redknapp to thank for that. Now, he can't repay God, other than by living a good life (which would not include owning a Hummer!), but he was in a position to repay his debt to either West Ham or 'Arry. By choosing to join Liverpool, he has stabbed both in the back!
Why? Why would he join Liverpool? To win honours some will say, but surely Arsenal or Tottenham would offer a better prospect of that? Unlike Liverpool, both are in the Champions League and, unlike Liverpool, both have strong squads and the cash to bring in new players. But there's the rub. Had Cole joined either, he would have faced competition for his place in the team. Who would you have in your team, Modrich or Cole? I would go with the Croat every day of the week. Fabregas or Cole? The question isn't even worth posing!
So Cole hasn't made the choice based on medals, he has opted for an easy life, the opportunity to walk into a team and hold down a place without a lot of competition. Yes he may win medals too but that is a secondary consideration; thus the label of coward in my headline. That, at the end of the day, is why he left Chelsea. He wasn't good enough for the Plastics and he couldn't cope with being a squad player! Little man, but over sized ego syndrome! Look at me in my great big Hummer!
So if medals were not the primary consideration, why not return to the cradle of his career, why not repay the club and fans who made him? Because the guy is a traitor without any genuine feeling for the club or fans who made him. Had he joined Tottenham, then fair enough. 'Arry was a father figure in his formative years. Had he joined Arsenal then I could understand. Wenger polishes players like Cole and might have taken him to a new level even at this late stage of his career. But Liverpool? No, he might as well just nick the wheels off 'Arry's and Avram's cars and have done with it!
So go to Liverpool Joe Cole, you deserve each other! Join Carragher the traitor! Join the team of nearly men who were always going to be great one day but never quite made it! Find your level in a team destined to fight for a Europa League place season after season. Go to Liverpool and rot, you cowardly, son of an 'Arry!
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Bad move for COLE.Like you say HF why LIVERPOOL ?,they are not competing for CHAMPIONS LEAGUE,and the team now are going through a transition phase.We all know COLE is a mercenery type of player,club loyalty doesn't mean a thing to him.all he is concerned about is getting as big a wage as possible,which LIVERPOOL were willing to provide.Even CHELSEA rejected him for that reason. I still doubt HODGSON'S ability,he will now come under some real pressure at LIVERPOOL,more than he ever had at FULHAM.Will it all go tits up for him and LIVERPOOL?...I think so.
£90000 a week probably swung it What a shame for Joe especially as he supported Chelsea as a kid i believe I saw the best of JC in the youth team for West Ham and then some great peformances for the 1st team but all that was bred out of Joe by the constant nagging that he wasn't strong enough didn't track back enough got knocked off the ball too easily Joe like Alan Dickens before him should have gone to the continent where his talent rather than strength would have been the major factor in his development
oh just realised it was Chelsea that ruined both of them
very enjoyable read, good stuff. i'm quite pleased that he did not join arsenal because he is an over the hill one trick pony. i said that at the beginning and i say it again now.
you are also correct that he would not get in ahead of cesc but he would not even get in ahead of the boy wilshere. i know who i would rather have in my team: a boy with it all to prove and not a person who who was carried by the great chelsea players who won those titles and now has taken the easy option with a team that will never win the title again.
Cheers mate.
check out this cartoon of mohammed :" (
there...it's out now. what's anyone gonna do about it?
I could delete your comment of course but it is so juvenile I cannot see the point.
HF, good post. I agree Cole chases the bucks rather than show loyalty or even move to another club for the right reasons.
I guess we all knew he wouldn't be signing us.
Another big name signing (seven and counting!)
that didn't happen for us, part of the S&G smoke screen.
Son of an 'arry hahahah!
This is further evidence of just how much a moron you are. Either you are seriously on a wind-up or you really do not have a bloody clue.
How an earth can you compare Lampard and Ince to Joe Cole? Yes they were all midfielders who came through our academy but the similarities stop there.
Lampard said he'd never play for West Ham again, and he never will. Ince wore a Man Utd shirt whilst still playing for West Ham. And what did Cole do? Well he compromised his usual attacking flair to get stuck in, and fought for West Ham's survival in the Premier League. The kind of fight that Reo-Coker could only have dreamt of when he was captain in our nearly season a few years back.
It's embarrassing just how leaving the club these days turns you into public enemy number 1.
But what is more pathetic how HF constantly moans about West Ham and everything associated with it, writes a negative article almost twice a day about how bad things have been or will be, and yet despite this he expects top players to stay at the club or sign for the club and criticises them if they dont! You are a deluded fool HF.
You can't write a single article which credits anyone or anything about the club and here you are moaning about a player that left this terrible club and won't sign for us again!
Absolute bellend.
Kevin in Manchester writes..
personally I am pleased he chose not to return to his alma mater. It is never a good idea to go back -for either party- in football. He is not the brightest I mean look at him as a friend of mine once said : 'he has something of the Simian about him' he would in my opinion behaved like a big time charlie and would have been next to useless in the trench warfare that next season will almost certainly bring- espcially in the first six games.We must be thankful that the memories we have will not be sullied now by a wretched second coming. Finally on transfers generally we must keep in mind who we are and where we are- a club whose overriding ambition must surely be to avoid relegation; we'll not pick up any better players off the shelf that we have thus far - best get used to it and trust that Avram is good enough to make something of a silk purse out of the proverbial sow's ear.
I was there when Joe captained us to relegation, literally going down fighting alongside Brevett against Bolton. He was the stand out player that season and shed tears when we went down.
From my understanding we were about to go into administration had he and Johnson not been sold. He was clearly too talented for the championship and had ambitions of getting more games for England which he would never have done, playing in the lower tiers.
He played well, tried his hardest and never had a bad word to say about us.
The only shame is the money we received for him didn't reflect his true value.
Give the guy a break, he doesn't owe us anything -his £90k a week is his reward for showing loyalty to Chelsea and fulfilling his contract. It's a good deal for Liverpool, they get a player worth £15m for £18m which includes wages for 4 years. It's a good deal for Joe with a chance to establish himself in a team that is in need of creativity.
I don't see anything traitorous in what he's done, it just comes across as you're bitter.
I wish the guy well, and hope the Liverpool fans get to see his playing at his peak.
Sorry mate, but I just don't see Joe Cole as a TRAITOR in the mold of Paul Ince, and even Lumps has been over-villified. He had to be sold to balance the books.
I agree that Liverpool is a stupid, idiotic move foe him, as they are likely to struggle for mid-table this season, and may well be in administration by next summer.(Fingers crossed, then they can't cheat their way to the FA Cup again!.. oh don't even get me started on the F....flipping Scallys!!!!)
Anonymous 0851, you've contradicted yourself there mate. In one breath you list the reasons why we hate certain players. In the next you accuse us of hating players just for leaving the club. Perhaps we have different perceptions of this article but i didnt see it as an attack on the way Cole left the club, more of the way he has acted since. Since leaving he has carried on like one of the baby Bentley boys with a bit more money. A baby Hummer boy! No doubt we had to sell him at the time to save the club but not all players who leave the club turn mercenary.
I'm afraid you are so wrong on this one HF. In the past, I have stuck up for you when people have called you a knob/cock etc for your articles, but clearly on this particular subject, you obviously took a bad knock to the head. On the plus side, this is the first time I have disagreed with you.
"It's been harder this year...Liverpool have got better, Manchester United have got better, Arsenal have got better, and Tottenham have joined the quartet of five teams." - Joe Cole.
It was reported that Joe Cole and Fabio Capello had a 'clear the air' talk during the World Cup.
"It was a difficult chat because his English was very poor"...said Capello.
Seriously, it was recently reported that West Ham had proposed 'the best offer currently on the table' to JC (that's Joe Cole, not Jesus!).
What, in excess of the £90K/wk he'll now receive at Anfield?! Hmmm...somehow, I doubt it!! If it's right that his excessive wage demands and his insistence on being on the same rate as the 'top earners' weren't the issue, then surely he'd still be at Chelsea?!
to play with Gerrard and Torres?
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