{"id":415458,"date":"2011-05-02T16:40:14","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T16:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/02\/michael-essien-to-stay-at-chelsea-after-crunch-talks\/"},"modified":"2011-05-02T16:40:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T16:40:14","slug":"michael-essien-to-stay-at-chelsea-after-crunch-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/02\/michael-essien-to-stay-at-chelsea-after-crunch-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Essien To Stay At Chelsea After Crunch Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>Midfielder Michael Essien has been told he is a required player at Chelsea next season. 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. 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\/201ed65bget.media_41-150x90.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[Read more here|View the original here|More|More|Read More|Read More|Read More|Read More|Continued here|More here|View original post here|More|See more here|See original article|Originally posted here|Visit site|See the original post||See the original article here|Read the original post|Original post|Read the article|See more here|Read the original|Link|Excerpt from|Taken from|View post|Visit link|Follow this link|Continue reading here|Continue Reading|See the article here|Read this article|View article|<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Midfielder Michael Essien has been told he is a required player at Chelsea next season. 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. But Drogba had talks this week and will stay, and Essien had similar discussions days earlier. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Michael Essien To Stay At Chelsea After Crunch Talks - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/02\/michael-essien-to-stay-at-chelsea-after-crunch-talks\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Michael Essien To Stay At Chelsea After Crunch Talks - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Midfielder Michael Essien has been told he is a required player at Chelsea next season. 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