{"id":193640,"date":"2020-02-14T11:44:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T10:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=193640"},"modified":"2020-02-14T11:45:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T10:45:10","slug":"epl-mourinho-told-me-i-was-rubbish-chelsea-defender-zouma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=193640","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Mourinho told me I was rubbish &#8211; Chelsea defender, Zouma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Chelsea defender, Kurt Zouma, has said Jose Mourinho once called him \u201crubbish\u201d during their time together at the club.<\/p>\n<p>Mourinho brought Zouma as a 19-year-old to Stamford Bridge from St Etienne in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Following a performance he was not impressed with, the Portuguese called Zouma into his office and gave him a dressing down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot remember which match we were playing, we were losing 3-1, away from home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe following day, he [Mourinho] catches up with me, he takes me to his office, and he asks me if I am ok. I said yes, he asked me if I was sure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said yes again, he replied \u2018Because you were rubbish this weekend.\u2019 Like that, direct. It shocked me, but it made me want to immediately respond on the pitch,\u201d Zouma told RMC Sport.<\/p>\n<p>From that time, Zouma has been sent on loan deals to Stoke City and Everton.<\/p>\n<p>However, this season he has become a mainstay for Frank Lampard\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>Zouma is expected to be in Chelsea\u2019s starting XI when they host Mourinho\u2019s Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League next week.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea defender, Kurt Zouma, has said Jose Mourinho once called him \u201crubbish\u201d during their time together at the club. Mourinho brought Zouma as a 19-year-old to Stamford Bridge from St Etienne in 2014. Following a performance he was not impressed with, the Portuguese called Zouma into his office and gave him a dressing down. \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,1397,7644,14283,5319],"class_list":["post-193640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-chelsea","tag-jose-mourinho","tag-kurt-zouma","tag-tottenham"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/193641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}