Liverpool's Joe Cole to Return to West Ham With a £3m Payoff: The Nightly EPL

Liverpool is ready to cut their ties with Joe Cole so the attacking midfielder can join West Ham United. If the move goes through, Joe Cole will return to the club where he started his career in the youth academy in 1994 before leaving the club in 2003 to join Chelsea.

According to The Guardian, “It has been reported that Cole will receive a £3m pay-off from Liverpool. His four-year contract on Merseyside is worth £92,000 a week and Liverpool said they will save about £4m by paying Cole to leave now, given that the last 18 months of his deal is worth about £7m.”

Here are tonight’s Premier League news headlines:

• Liverpool’s Joe Cole to return to West Ham with a £3m payoff — The Guardian
• Daniel Sturridge vows to repay faith of Brendan Rodgers — Liverpool Echo
• Chelsea might struggle to fit in Fernando Torres and Demba Ba says Michael Cox — The Guardian
• QPR boss Harry Redknapp trying to make Anthony Reveillere his first recruit — Telegraph
• Manchester City lose Yaya Touré early for Africa Cup of Nations — The Guardian
• Lille defender Mathieu Debuchy set for Newcastle medical — BBC Sport
• Younès Kaboul’s return for Tottenham delayed until February — The Guardian
• NBC Sports Network ratings are a disaster — Awful Announcing
• Scott Parker pinpoints Aaron Lennon as force behind Tottenham’s form — The Guardian
• Nuri Sahin could leave Liverpool this month as club looks to offload the player — The Independent
• Tottenham confirm interest in Brazil pair Leandro Damião and Willian — The Guardian
• Spurs will not stand in way of Emmanuel Adebayor over African Nations Cup duty — The Independent
• Crystal Palace want Wilfried Zaha loaned back as part of any sale — The Guardian
• Harry Redknapp says he will sign former Tal Ben Haim on a short-term deal — BBC Sport
• Stoke’s Steven Nzonzi wins appeal against sending off — The Guardian
• Arsenal & Chelsea baulk at Wesley Sneijder’s £200k-a-week wage demands — The Independent
• Ameobi out of Nigeria African Nations Cup squad — ESPN FC
• Rio Ferdinand reveals confrontation with hooded fans eight years ago — The Guardian
• Man City moved their advertising boards to counteract Stoke’s long throw-ins — Dirty Tackle
• Lewis Holtby favours switch to Tottenham — The Independent
• Over 75% of footballers suffer from depression says Four Four Two survey — The Mail
• Vincent Kompany: Manchester City are calm despite seven-point deficit — The Guardian
• Suddenlink May Drop FOX Soccer on January 3 — My FOX Austin
• Wigan to add Atletico Madrid goalkeeper Joel to the side on loan — The Mail
• Former Liverpool PR exec Jen Chang joins New York Cosmos — Empire Of Soccer

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