{"id":9404,"date":"2026-05-16T22:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=9404"},"modified":"2026-05-16T22:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:54:09","slug":"ruud-gullit-claims-departing-man-utd-star-would-be-ideal-partner-for-moises-caicedo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=9404","title":{"rendered":"Ruud Gullit Claims Departing Man Utd Star Would Be Ideal Partner For Moises Caicedo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<article>\n<p><strong>Chelsea legend Ruud Gullit thinks Moises Caicedo \u201cneeds\u201d an experienced head like Man Utd\u2019s Casemiro alongside him in midfield.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <em>MrRaffle.com<\/em>Gullit said that he shares the view of other former players that the Blues\u2019 current squad is lacking senior figures:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny manager would see what I see and say, \u2018I need experienced players \u2013 I need a Casemiro, a Tchouameni. I need these players in midfield. I need this kind of experience alongside the young talent.\u2019 And if you don\u2019t have them, it\u2019s going to be a problem. Look at Paris Saint-Germain \u2013 they have young players, but they also have players with a lot of experience. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose experienced players tell the young ones what to do, and that\u2019s how they flourish. And when they get older, they\u2019ll teach the next group of youngsters. That\u2019s what Moises Caicedo needs \u2013 someone like Casemiro next to him to guide him. To say, \u2018Hey, calm down. Do it this way.\u2019 And that happens in training sessions.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Casemiro will be available on a free transfer<\/h2>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"0fab81ce12e48a0794275e1d82449fb1\" image-id=\"1076969312\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%;\"\/><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support --><br \/>It was announced back in January that the 34-year-old would be leaving United at the end of his contract.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sra_unit\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" id=\"block-sra\" href=\"https:\/\/chelseanews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/snack-related-articles\/dist\/css\/snack-related.min.css?230424-120159\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\"\/>\n<aside class=\"sra-group sra-related-list\">\n<h2 class=\"sra-group-head\">Most Read on Chelsea News<\/h2>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Despite having had a very strong campaign, in which he has scored 9 league goals for the Red Devils, the club have decided to part ways in order to reduce their wage bill.<\/p>\n<h2>Cole has backed Chelsea to sign 3 other senior pros<\/h2>\n<p>Like Gullit, fellow former Blues star Joe Cole thinks the club should be doing all they can to bring in more experience. He <strong>named<\/strong> former Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson, Manchester City defender John Stones and Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski as potential targets.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the Blues\u2019 recruitment team will actually heed the words of Gullit and Cole, we shall have to wait and see. Any decisions on new signings may have to wait until a new head coach is appointed anyway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more about the Chelsea First Team Squad for 2025\/26 here<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/article><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea legend Ruud Gullit thinks Moises Caicedo \u201cneeds\u201d an experienced head like Man Utd\u2019s Casemiro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}