{"id":3952,"date":"2026-09-09T21:41:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T21:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=3952"},"modified":"2026-09-09T21:41:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T21:41:50","slug":"jose-mourinho-happy-about-cole-palmers-injury-ahead-of-chelsea-return-with-benfica-as-portuguese-coach-reveals-best-thing-about-going-back-to-stamford-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=3952","title":{"rendered":"Jose Mourinho &#8216;happy&#8217; about Cole Palmer&#8217;s injury ahead of Chelsea return with Benfica as Portuguese coach reveals &#8216;best thing&#8217; about going back to Stamford Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p>In quotes carried by Portuguese publication A Bola, Mourinho said of Palmer\u2019s absence: \u201cI&#8217;m happy. My Chelsea team was a winning machine, with a big investment, but a lot of ambition. Then they seemed to lose some direction, and it was tough for those who love the club. Enzo Maresca [Chelsea manager] arrived, and the puzzle is being completed piece by piece, and they won the Conference League. Now I think they have a good, good team, and if Cole Palmer isn&#8217;t a problem for Chelsea [through injury], that&#8217;s a big problem for me. If [Heorhiy] Sudakov or [Vangelis] Pavlidis don&#8217;t play, that&#8217;s a big problem for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-ng\/lists\/jose-mourinho-happy-cole-palmers-injury-ahead-of-chelsea-return-with-benfica\/blt05be5af9681ce058\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In quotes carried by Portuguese publication A Bola, Mourinho said of Palmer\u2019s absence: \u201cI&#8217;m happy&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}