{"id":11922,"date":"2024-01-14T09:03:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T09:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/transfer-he-may-not-become-next-drogba-costa-joe-cole-on-chelsea-target\/"},"modified":"2024-01-14T09:03:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T09:03:55","slug":"transfer-he-may-not-become-next-drogba-costa-joe-cole-on-chelsea-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/transfer-he-may-not-become-next-drogba-costa-joe-cole-on-chelsea-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer: He may not become next Drogba, Costa \u2013 Joe Cole on Chelsea target"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Chelsea player, Joe Cole has said the club\u2019s transfer target, Ivan Toney may not become the next Didier Drogba or Diego Costa at Stamford Bridge should he join the Blues.<\/p>\n<p>Cole said this while sending a message to Chelsea\u2019s owners regarding their recruitment policy and manager, Mauricio Pochettino.<\/p>\n<p>Since taking over at the west London club in 2022, Todd Boehly and Co. have spent more than \u00a31 billion in the transfer market in recruiting young talents.<\/p>\n<p>However, majority of the players continue to struggle on the pitch and the consensus is that the team lacks experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom what I understand about the owners, they want to buy youth and under-24s, 25s, and they are very rigid,\u201d Cole said (via Football.London).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou could not have got Harry Kane who would have been the dream. Ronaldo went to Saudi Arabia and he\u2019s getting old. Osimhen was not available at the time, so you have to be a bit smarter with your recruitment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think we are not going to go for that now, we\u2019ll maybe put a bid in for Ivan Toney because we know he is going to score goals, he may or may not become the next Didier Drogba or Diego Costa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Transfer: He may not become next Drogba, Costa \u2013 Joe Cole on Chelsea target<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chelsea player, Joe Cole has said the club\u2019s transfer target, Ivan Toney may not become the next Didier Drogba&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[606,8903,1925,8904,15,160,1693],"tags":[609,8592,8905,1928,5430,180,201,1695],"class_list":["post-11922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-costa","category-drogba","category-joe-cole","category-news","category-sport","category-transfer","tag-chelsea","tag-cole","tag-costa","tag-drogba","tag-joe","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}