Former Chelsea star Joe Cole, has said he wants to set the record straight about his Liverpool career once and for all.

Joe Cole left Chelsea on a free to Liverpool in the summer of 2010.

Joe Cole’s time at Liverpool was plagued by injury, as he spent two and half years with the club. After his short time at Anfield, Joe Cole left for West Ham United on a free transfer in January 2013.

Liverpool fans have been attacking Cole for what he said on Mikel Obi One podcast about Liverpool.

“I did the John Obi Mikel podcast and I think it just got taken a little out of context, what I was saying,” Cole exclusively told the ECHO, speaking on behalf of TNT Sports who will show the midweek fixtures in the Premier League this week, including Liverpool’s home clash with Chelsea on Wednesday 31 January. “I want to set a few things straight.

“We were generally talking about my career as a whole and we got onto Liverpool. What I was trying to say was, with hindsight, my body was done. I could never be the player that I was in the years before.

“I kept breaking down after that and history will say that. I was saying probably if I’d stayed at Chelsea or gone somewhere in another country, it would have probably been a little bit easier to sort of manage my body.

“But going up to Liverpool, with the expectations and everything, and then to keep breaking down. It’s been picked up like I knew I was a crock and I signed because of that, but it wasn’t.

“In my mind at the time, I was like, ‘Right, I wanna sign here because…’, obviously Chelsea made the decision that they wanted to go in a different direction, and I chose Liverpool over lots of other clubs. I loved the big nights that we played there when I went there with Chelsea. I just thought it would be cool to play in that place.

“But my body was done. I certainly wasn’t going with intentions of not doing it. Anyone who knows me knows that I was a consummate professional during that time, trying to make it work. It just wasn’t right.”