{"id":561522,"date":"2020-08-11T15:07:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T19:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=561522"},"modified":"2020-08-11T15:07:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T19:07:56","slug":"daniel-sturridge-wants-premier-league-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/08\/11\/daniel-sturridge-wants-premier-league-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Sturridge Wants Premier League Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Sturridge is keen to reignite his playing career in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11095\/12046833\/daniel-sturridge-former-chelsea-liverpool-striker-wants-premier-league-return\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sky Sports<\/a>, the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolfc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liverpool<\/a> and Chelsea striker said that he has &#8220;unfinished business&#8221; and wants to return to England&#8217;s top flight.<\/p>\n<p>Capped by England on 26 occasions, the striker has been without a club since leaving Turkish side Trabzonspor in March amid controversy after being <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/2020\/03\/02\/daniel-sturridge-handed-worldwide-football-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">handed a four-month worldwide football ban for breaching the FA&#8217;s gambling regulations.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Daniel Sturridge Eager to Return to Premier League<\/h2>\n<h3>Striker Ready to Make a Comeback<\/h3>\n<p>Sturridge, still just 30 years old, now says he has maintained his training schedule and is ready for the next challenge following the expiration of his ban.<\/p>\n<p>The man who formed part of Liverpool&#8217;s formidable attack alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/a6154613\/Luis-Suarez?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luis Suarez<\/a> dubbed the &#8216;SAS&#8217; said: &#8220;I believe I&#8217;ve got a lot to give to the Premier League and I would say that&#8217;s my first choice. I do feel I have unfinished business so I would like to go back and play there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=byJwrLM2az0\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">With 50 goals in 116 appearances for Liverpool<\/a> during his last permanent spell in English football, there is no doubt Sturridge possesses the quality required in the top flight. However, during a loan spell with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/west-brom\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Bromwich Albion<\/a> at the back end of his time at Anfield, he failed to score in six appearances, epitomising his later time in England.<\/p>\n<p>Sturridge had recaptured his form in Turkey, with four goals in 11 Super Lig appearances, and three in three games in the Turkish Cup; the signs of a return to somewhere near his best were positive.<\/p>\n<p>Now available as a free agent, Sturridge has been linked with a host of clubs, both in the Premier League and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a number of club monitoring Sturridge&#8217;s situation, seemingly now over his injury problems which marred his earlier career, the time might be right for a Premier League return for the former Liverpool man.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"-W3elN3mSA56qa28xE0VxA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1146965441\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'-W3elN3mSA56qa28xE0VxA',sig:'B071oHzHV8G3Tzy_S8j_WCTBE9qp4inL3ToTzlTsKqg=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1146965441',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Sturridge is keen to reignite his playing career in the Premier League. In an interview with Sky Sports, the former Liverpool and Chelsea striker said that he has &#8220;unfinished business&#8221; and wants to return to England&#8217;s top flight. Capped by England on 26 occasions, the striker has been without a club since leaving Turkish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3501,"featured_media":561613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,11,16,3,28],"tags":[46,393,95,511,40,868,451,136],"class_list":["post-561522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-chelsea","category-liverpool","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-chelsea","tag-daniel-sturridge","tag-liverpool","tag-luis-suarez","tag-premier-league","tag-trabzonspor","tag-turkey","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}