{"id":91749,"date":"2023-07-07T22:10:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T21:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/epl-i-need-to-know-them-pochettino-on-new-chelsea-captain"},"modified":"2023-07-08T00:49:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T23:49:12","slug":"epl-i-need-to-know-them-pochettino-on-new-chelsea-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-i-need-to-know-them-pochettino-on-new-chelsea-captain","title":{"rendered":"EPL: I need to know them \u2013 Pochettino on new Chelsea captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino has said he has not decided on the team\u2019s new captain after Cesar Azpilicueta left the club this summer.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pochettino, he will evaluate the squad he inherited before announcing his decision.<\/p>\n<p>Azpilicueta, who replaced Gary Cahill as skipper four years ago, has joined Atletico Madrid after 11 years at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard was granted permission to terminate his contract early and return to Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Pochettino is, however, in no rush to decide who will be Azpilicueta\u2019s successor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next captain? Well, first of all, we need to close the squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then I need to know all the players. I think I need to feel the players, I need to feel the commitment, I need to feel the character and personalities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing is looking from outside; another is when you are working with them\u2014for positive and not so positive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, we need to close the squad, and then we have many players who have experience, and then we will decide,\u201d Pochettino said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino has said he has not decided on the team\u2019s new captain after Cesar Azpilicueta left the club this summer. According to Pochettino, he will evaluate the squad he inherited before announcing his decision. Azpilicueta, who replaced Gary Cahill as skipper four years ago, has joined Atletico Madrid after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":91748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[1570,2140,485,885,254,3104],"class_list":["post-91749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-chelsea","tag-epl","tag-nigeria","tag-pochettino"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EPL: I need to know them \u2013 Pochettino on new Chelsea captain - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino has said he has not decided on the team\u2019s new captain after Cesar Azpilicueta left t ...\" \/>\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.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-i-need-to-know-them-pochettino-on-new-chelsea-captain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EPL: I need to know them \u2013 Pochettino on new Chelsea captain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino has said he has not decided on the team\u2019s new captain after Cesar Azpilicueta left t ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-i-need-to-know-them-pochettino-on-new-chelsea-captain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-07-07T21:10:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-07T23:49:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/07\/sm_1688757431.638855.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"533\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-i-need-to-know-them-pochettino-on-new-chelsea-captain#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-i-need-to-know-them-pochettino-on-new-chelsea-captain\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"EPL: I need to know them \u2013 Pochettino on new Chelsea captain\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-07-07T21:10:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-07T23:49:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-i-need-to-know-them-pochettino-on-new-chelsea-captain\"},\"wordCount\":197,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-i-need-to-know-them-pochettino-on-new-chelsea-captain#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/07\/sm_1688757431.638855.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"chelsea\",\"EPL\",\"Nigeria\",\"Pochettino\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-i-need-to-know-them-pochettino-on-new-chelsea-captain#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-i-need-to-know-them-pochettino-on-new-chelsea-captain\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-i-need-to-know-them-pochettino-on-new-chelsea-captain\",\"name\":\"EPL: I need to know them \u2013 Pochettino on new Chelsea captain - 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