{"id":20595,"date":"2014-05-24T14:55:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T14:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=20595"},"modified":"2014-05-24T14:55:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T14:55:19","slug":"chelsea-release-frank-lampard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=20595","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea release Frank Lampard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 35-year-old midfielder&#8217;s future has been unclear throughout the Premier League season and he was on a list of released players on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Left-back Ashley Cole, striker Samuel Eto&#8217;o and goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer are among the others on the list.<\/p>\n<p>They could yet be retained if they agree to new deals with the English giants.<\/p>\n<p>Cole and Eto&#8217;o have been expected to leave Stamford Bridge since late in the season but Lampard looked set to agree to an extension.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea captain John Terry agreed to a one-year deal earlier in May.<\/p>\n<p>Schwarzer is still hopeful of another contract, but the Australian&#8217;s release &#8221; along with Hilario &#8221; could mean on-loan shot-stopper Thibaut Courtois will return from Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea are yet to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Source: AllsportsGH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 35-year-old midfielder&#8217;s future has been unclear throughout the Premier League season and he was on a list of released players on Friday. Left-back Ashley Cole, striker Samuel Eto&#8217;o and goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer are among the others on the list. They could yet be retained if they agree to new deals with the English giants. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":19305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-20595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}