"Sorry to see you go, a brilliant player but it never quite clicked for you. Wish you all the best for the future, nice to see you go back "home" rather than somewhere else."
"Seems nice guy off the pitch and model professional on it, shame his legs has gone :( Best of luck with your home club Joey, You'll Never Walk Alone!"
"An effin shame this is. Model professional, quality squad player with a good atude. I can understand he would want to leave for regular football at the club that has his heart but I don't understand why we keep letting players go on a free? Cole, Maxi, Bellamy? Not players we could ask the world for but one or two million wouldn't be too much for these type of players??"
"Good luck Joe at your spiritual home of Upton Park. May the footballing Gods be with you. You could prove to be the bargain of the season if you stay fit."
"pretty obvious his wages would of been far to high for west ham to pay. with no fee paid from west ham they put what they might of had to pay 2-3m into paying the difference to their wage structure. We then benefit with offloading a high earner who wont figure in our first team, its not hard to understand we wouldnt of had to give him any money to move him on."
"Good luck Joe. Not sure you were able to deliver through the bad luck you had. Always gave your best and thats why we will always respect you. YNWA!!"
"The last of the mercenaries Joe must be am afraid. Nowt personal, and know all about legal contracts, but him walking off with 3 million quid leaves a sour taste for me am afraid. Good riddance."
"Still getting stupid comments over money. JC was under contract to receive £100K per week. No club would pay to have him earning that amount, only sensible thing was to let him go and pay part of his wages. The urge to pay £15 million for Walcott, stupid again, he is in final six months of contract. It's all about how much he can earn. "
"All the best for your future Joe! It did not work with us, I hope it will work for you at your new club where you belong! Anyway I want you know you've been a good servant of our club, a big professional! YNWA Joe Cole"
"Good luck Joe. Thanks for your service. How different it could have been if you weren't sent off against Arsenal in your first league match. I'm sure you would have pushed on from there, but alas..."
"Good Luck Joe. The timing wasn't good for you when you came to LFC but you were very much welcomed. And now we very much wish you success at West Ham.
YNWA"
"An awful lot of forgiving fans wishing Joe well.
Disasterous signing for us.He only joined us as we were the only club to pay him what he wanted.
We're even paying for him to pack his bags and join West Ham.
Glad to see the mercenary go. "
"I wont lie Im glad hes gone, great player, always tried his best, but something just never really went for him here at our beloved Liverpool, and 90k a week was too much considering the bit part he was playing. Good luck Joe, sorry it didnt work out YNWA"
"Well overdue move away. Unfortunately Roy Hodgson got sold a pup - a very expensive one at that.
Joe has never achieved anywhere near acceptable form at LFC, and worse than that, he has restricted the likes of Dani Pacheco from game time."
"For all concerned with the "pay off" we still had a contract to pay 100k a week for 18 months, the deal to west ham will be a free transfer as we are terminating joes contract not him we will therefore be paying him 50k a week for 18 months to complete the contract as west ham will be paying him 30k at the same time. strange but better to have that kind of money off the books"
"i would like to say farewell to joe cole and his family but i hope he scores a hattrick when they play us next to see why Br wanted him to leave he will prove that and prove fans wrong ! "
"Goodbye Jo, thanks for all the effort you put in. You will play week in week out at West Ham and they are lucky to get you. Good Luck ... but not against us!"
"Wish you all the best for the future Joe, and have a great time at West Ham, and thanks for taking time to speak with me at Anfield,and having a picture taking with me, thanks a lot YNWA "
"All the best, Joe. Hopefully, it all works out for you at Hammers. You looked good in the last games that you played for LFC, may you carry on the good work at West Ham! YNWA!"
"Even when you weren't playing well you still ran yourself into the ground and gave 100%. A nice bloke and a model pro who was always very respectful towards this club (Even when at Lille). Good luck with the Hammers Joe... YNWA"
"Its seems BR is even more astute than given credit sometimes. He obviously gave Cole game time to showcase him to prospective buyers and his goal against West Ham has paid off. I won't be crying about his leaving but its a shame that we didn't see the best of him as he is capable of sumptuous performances. Take care sir. "
"100k a week for five years and we got four goals, not the best deal ever. good luck anyway joe as we would all have taken the money if some fool would only offer it. you always gave your best and it is a pity that your career has been blighted by injury"
"one of our worst transfers ever! 90K a wk for a shot player who played f all, went on loan (while LFC paid him) and is now gone to a new club while we continue to pay him."
"So what went wrong? Who was responsible for the money that was and still is being paid out to him? Do they still work at the club? Sorry but if Chelsea were going to let a player go without much fuss how come he was good enough for Liverpool. He wasn't! Sorry but another failing! Good Luck Joe. How many assists do we expect for Carroll from him? "
" For the contract 'experts' on here; a contract is ended on leaving the club, and the player enters into a new one with his new club. He now has 2 contracts, one with west Ham and one with LFC. He could have just taken a pay cut. This shows 1; that he's a shroud business man. 2;that he's a money grabber. and 3; how low BR rated him! that we'd rather pay him to leave than keep him!"
"Goodbye and good luck. We never saw the best of you and there were times when you were given your chance that I had my head in my hands sitting in Anfield! Another one off the wage bill."
"only1Cloggs - You forgot to add David Amoo to that list. A brilliant young talent who would have offered us width, pace and skill. A big shame on Liverpool for not offering him a contract. "
"Apparently a nice bloke and a good professional but let's all face it - He's lost it! and never repaid us back with his form of yesteryear! See ya and very sorry, but you're ending your career on a low!"
"You could see Cole always gave maximum effort,it just didn't work out. As someone has pointed out,you can't blame Cole that we paid him 100k a week.I do hope that we didn't have to "pay him off though". "
"This is football. You win some .....you loose sum. He came on a free and it was not an absolute risk because we all knew of the potential that was there. He had a positive atude and was a good professional. I am still gobsmacked why it did not work out. Nevertheless can you imagine what it must feel like paying 50 mill for a player and getting NOTHING in return. "
"Thank God we've finally been able to get rid of him and cut our losses.He held us to ransom for far too long. The very anhesis to Suarez in every respect."
"LFC chose to pay Joe Cole the wages. None of us would turn it down so it's not his fault.
Sorry it never worked out, from the minute Martin Atkinson stupidly gave you a red card against Arsenal it was just not meant to be.
Better Luck at your spiritual home and hope you keep the hammers up in their rightful division. YNWA "
"The only important thing that cole did for us at Liverpool is score against who he's joining when we won 2-3 so thanks for that joe and all the best YNWA "
"What a JOKE, we had to pay £3mil to make him leave! What a ridiculous players... jus get lost another west ham failure product! Hope this good lesson for us, don't short-change or over-pay players in future... not sure any conspiracy involved... audit pls! "
"Best wishes Joe, it just didn't work for you in LFC. It is not your mistake. (I just wonder how much of his wages we are still going to pay every week.) YNWA Joe."
"HEY JOE, AT LEAST YOU HELPED LFC WIN 3-2 AGAINST HAMMERS, YOUR WAGE BILL IS £3 MILL A YR SO HAPPY TRAILS, JOE, YOU ARE NEVER A 'FREE TRANSFER' YOU ARE AN EXAMPLE OF WAGE CUT EXERCISE, THAT'S ALL!!!!!!"
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