{"id":2241,"date":"2014-02-25T13:17:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T13:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2014-02-25T13:17:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T13:17:24","slug":"chelsea-lack-a-scorer-mourinho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=2241","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea lack a scorer &#8211; Mourinho"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2246\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mourinho-jose.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2246\" alt=\"Chelsea - Jose Mourinho Press Conference\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mourinho-jose-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mourinho-jose-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mourinho-jose.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Mourinho<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chelsea&#8217;s Champions League game at Galatasaray on Wednesday has been overshadowed by comments made by manager Jose Mourinho last week about the lack of scorers in his squad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The problem with Chelsea is we lack a scorer,&#8221; the Portuguese said in footage captured by French TV station Canal Plus. &#8220;I have one (Samuel Eto&#8217;o) but he&#8217;s 32. Maybe 35, who knows?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea have not denied Mourinho made the comments at a sponsor&#8217;s event in Nyon, Switzerland, British media reported, but said he was speaking in a light-hearted private conversation and did not know he was being filmed.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea lead the Premier League but have struggled for goals from their three recognised strikers, Eto&#8217;o, Fernando Torres and Demba Ba, who have found the net 11 times between them in the league this season.<\/p>\n<p>Mourinho also went on to discuss Colombia striker Radamel Falcao, who joined French club Monaco this season from Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have Falcao but Falcao doesn&#8217;t have a team,&#8221; Mourinho said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who wants to play in front of 3,000 supporters? If I was one day to go to Monaco it would be at the end (of my career).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By : Gary Al-Smith\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea&#8217;s Champions League game at Galatasaray on Wednesday has been overshadowed by comments made by manager Jose Mourinho last week about the lack of scorers in his squad. &#8220;The problem with Chelsea is we lack a scorer,&#8221; the Portuguese said in footage captured by French TV station Canal Plus. &#8220;I have one (Samuel Eto&#8217;o) but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","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=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}