Joe Cole linked with Boleyn return

  • by Staff Writer
  • Wednesday, 2nd January 2013

Joe Cole could be the answer to Sam Allardyce's creative gulf - according to reports surfacing this afternoon.

The fomer Hammer, who currently plays for Liverpool is reported to have been the subject of an enquiry from both West Ham and Queens Park Rangers, whose manager Harry Redknapp was in charge at the BG when Cole made his first team debut as a teenager.

West Ham are reported to be keen to take the 31-year-old back to London on a permanent basis - a deal that the club are hoping to hammer out within the next few days. However all will depend upon the 58-time capped England international taking a huge pay-cut; Cole is estimated to earn in the region of £90,000-per-week on Merseyside.

Cole left West Ham following the club's relegation from the Premeirship at the end of the 2002/03 season having made it clear that he saw his future away from Upton Park. A £6million move to Chelsea led to him spending seven years at Stamford Bridge.

In 2010 Cole joined Liverpool on a free transfer after his contract at Stamford Bridge expired. However he failed to settle o nMerseyside and was sent on loan to French club Lille for the 2011/12 campaign, returning to England last summer.

Rarely used this term, Cole came on as a substitute in Liverpool's recent 3-2 win at the Boleyn Ground and scored the second of the visitors' goals.

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