Liverpool beat Arsenal in the race for the signing of Salford City Starlet Wright -just like when achieving a Top Gunner’s goal in 2010.
After a contract, the 17-year-old striker had associated over £ 200,000 in North London last season on more than 50 goals at the youth level.
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But it is the red who have secured a transfer for the Youngster who was seen three times for Salford’s senior team in the 2024/25 campaign after they had agreed.
It is not the first time that Liverpool derived Arsenal’s competition to sign a top goal after bringing Joe Cole with him 15 years ago.
Cole was a man who was asked about Chelsea, who helped to win three Premier League titles.
In addition to Liverpool, both Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur were interested in keeping Cole in the capital.
And he was supposed to move to Nord -London – a team against which he achieved twice from his first magic in West Ham and his seven -year stay in the Stamford Bridge.
Der Spiegel reported that Cole would conclude a three -year contract with the Emirates.
It was explained that Cole had agreed a deal of £ 90,000 a week and would be unveiled after the 2010 World Cup, in which he would be Arsenal’s second signing of the summer to Marouane Chamakh.
Even the legendary chief Arsene Wenger spoke up a step for the attacking midfielder.
Grow lyrically over Cole, he said: “I like him as a player because when he played against us Arsenal.
“He can achieve through his creative piece of effects. He can dribble, he can happen, he can score goals.”
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In the end, however, Cole would finally combine with a four -year contract in Anfield.
And as luck wanted, his first game in the opening game of the Premier League of the 2010/11 season would be against the Gunners on Merseyside.
What happened to Joe Coles for Liverpool at the Premier League debut?
Cole has been appointed in the line -up for the encounter – his first start in the Premier League since April after he had put down the meat command in Chelsea.
In the end it turned out to be a first -class debut that you remember Cole … for the wrong reasons.
He would not end half.
In the first half, an overzealous Cole received a direct red card for a ruthless challenge for Laurent Koscielny’s debutant.
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Cole immediately protested his innocence against referee Martin Atkinson, but it was in vain when the red card had quickly got out.
Koscielny left the field on a stretcher, but returned for the second half after the treatment during the break.
But maybe the French central defender shouldn’t have been after he had also been sent in the final phase after taking his second yellow card in all-action 1-1 automa.
What did Roy Hodgson say about Joe Coles Liverpool debut?
It was revealed by Liverpooler Boss Roy Hodgson after the full-time pipe that Cole was inconsolable after taking the first red card of his career.
Hodgson said of Cole, who was beaten with a three-game suspension, and did not say: “He is not the way for bloody tackles.
“He was destroyed at half -time. It was his debut, the atmosphere was fantastic and he really wanted to do well.
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“He didn’t play at the top of his game, but tried to reach this level when he was suddenly sent out of the way.
“He was sad of all of this and not least because it put us in a difficult situation.”
For Wenger he was only relieved that Arsenal’s worst fears were not recognized after they expected Koscielny to fail for months.
Although he came internationally to defend the 56-cap-England after emphasizing that he was not a dirty player.
Wenger said: “Joe Cole is usually a fair player that he wouldn’t be one that I would record is a guy who tries to hurt people. It’s not his style.
“Maybe he was a bit in his duel. He was accidentally accidental because he [Koscielny] Had a big knock on his shin.
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“Fortunately, his Shinpad protected him well. We were afraid that it was broken because when he was moved by the pitch, I told me that the physiotor told me that it could be broken.”
Cole finally achieved his place in the team after returning from the suspension, but he could not enjoy the season he had imagined.
In 33 games, he scored only four goals and three templates in 33 games when Liverpool ended sixth place. In the following campaign, the player borrowed the French side of Lille.
And he would finally return to Upton Park to come to West Ham in January 2013 with a free transfer.
How Cole explained when continue to speak The Obi One Podcast in 2024 should never have joined Liverpool.
He noticed: “” Liverpool is a great club. It didn’t work for me there, but it’s a fantastic club. But if I could have my time again, I would probably go abroad somewhere.”