{"id":414863,"date":"2011-05-02T12:59:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T12:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/02\/essien-to-stay-at-chelsea-after-crunch-talks\/"},"modified":"2011-05-02T12:59:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T12:59:04","slug":"essien-to-stay-at-chelsea-after-crunch-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/02\/essien-to-stay-at-chelsea-after-crunch-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Essien To Stay At Chelsea After Crunch Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"51\">Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\"><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-28322\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/05\/essien-to-stay-at-chelsea-after-crunch-talks\/essien-15\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28322\" title=\"Michael Essien\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/9d4afd67ien-300x168.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Essien will remain at Chelsea<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Midfielder Michael Essien has been told he is a required player at Chelsea next season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The People says the Ghanaian has been mentioned among the likes of Didier Drogba, Jon Obi Mikel and Jose Bosingwa as players that could pave way for a new set of stars at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>But Drogba had talks this week and will stay, and Essien had similar discussions days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The club will again step up their game as they hunt for the Champions League trophy they crave -but Blues officials have told midfield enforcer Essien that he should have no worries as he is still in their plans.<\/p>\n<p>Essien, 28, has four years left on his Chelsea contract.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/9d4afd67ien-300x168.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read this article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/05\/essien-to-stay-at-chelsea-after-crunch-talks\/\" title=\"Essien To Stay At Chelsea After Crunch Talks\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Essien To Stay At Chelsea After Crunch Talks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":414864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-414863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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