Joe
Cole is hoping for a return to either Chelsea or West Ham in order to help
build his fitness up after returning from America.
The 35-year-old has been playing in America with the Tampa Bay Rowdies and
was nominated as one of the North American Soccer League (NASL) MVPs but did
not win the main award.
Cole is back in England during the off-season and is on the lookout for some
help from his former clubs to get his fitness up.
"I'm going to start training this week, maybe to get back to West Ham or
Chelsea for a bit of training and just see how the bodies feels," he told
Soccer AM.
"I wouldn't go there to play, but just go there to train."
Cole had a richly successful spell in the Premier League with Chelsea and
West Ham, where he won three league titles and two FA Cups with the Blues to
go along with his 56 England caps.
He had spells at Aston Villa and Coventry in the last few years but made a
decision to sample life Stateside in the summer and has enjoyed the
experience.
"It was good, although a bit of an eye opener," he said.
"They do things very differently out there but I enjoyed it. The family
settled well, especially living just an hour and a half from Disney - I
loved that!
"The people there were so nice - we'd get beaten at home and I'd be raging
coming off the pitch. But people were so positive, saying how good I'd
played, when I hadn't. It's a different mind set - I missed getting booed
off now and again!"
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