Premier League - City confirm Bridge signing

Eurosport - Sun, 04 Jan 20:10:00 2009

Wayne Bridge has completed his £10 million move from Chelsea to Manchester City after signing a four-and-a-half-year contract at Eastlands.

FOOTBALL 2007-2008 Premier League Chelsea Wayne Bridge - 0

The clubs agreed terms for the 28-year-old before Bridge put pen to paper on a four-and-a-half-year contract a day later to become City's first signing of the January transfer window.

"I played alongside him at Southampton and I saw him come through the ranks. He was an outstanding young player and he's progressed year on year in his career," manager Mark Hughes told City's website.

"He's a successful player. He's an England international and has just played for one of the top four sides in the country.

"He's of the right quality and he's the type of player we need to attract. We need good players that understand this league and we'll look to carry on in that way and add more if we can."

Bridge, who has 32 England caps, joined Chelsea from Southampton for £7m in 2003 but struggled to hold down a regular first-team place after the arrival of Ashley Cole from Arsenal in 2006.

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  1. This is message from Luiz Felipe Scolari: After selling Wayne Bridge I have ehh taken moment to remember all the ehh good time we have together and ehh I regret never telling Bridgey exactly ehh how I feel about him ehh he always bring pork pie to ehh training for entire squad and ehh I always take more than everybody else and ehh I never say thank you for this. I ehh miss you Bridgey.

    With much ehh love,
    Big Phil

    From gene_hackman_stunt_double, on Mon 5 Jan 5:57PM

  2. Thank god Scott Parker is not for sale..... another waste of money.

    From kop it, on Mon 5 Jan 12:29PM

  3. it's simple chelsea best left back ever has finally been noticed and this is the best option for bridge.

    From Dillon B, on Mon 5 Jan 1:37AM

  4. Will you muppets get off Hughes' back. The truth is Dunne, Richards, Gelson, Jo Elano and Benjani are not good enough and none are Hughes signings. Sparky will get it right so stop moaning and start supporting.

    From darren, on Sun 4 Jan 11:01PM

  5. A good signing for a team who plan to finish in the top 10 but no more. Doesn't sound like the owners of Man City have been clear about what their objectives are, unless they are satisfied with mediocrity! Is it me, or is something not quite right with all this?

    From anthonyrafferty99, on Sun 4 Jan 10:47PM

  6. good signing..hope he'll renew his interest in signing recoba..

    From karl c, on Sun 4 Jan 8:19PM

  7. man city has to make the main priority to sign a new manager

    From nahmad11, on Sun 4 Jan 6:49PM

  8. why man city, why not real or barca, hes a gr8 player hu deserves a gr8 club not a team tht lose 3-0 to nottingham
    also why players not manager u need a new manager

    From Seb, on Sun 4 Jan 6:29PM

  9. Enough of uuuuuuuuuu Mark Who?.....the best sign we can have now is a new manager

    From max, on Sun 4 Jan 4:26PM

  10. That is right decision had done by Wayne Bridge to pullout from out of favour at chelsea and it good for Man City to sign him because Man City not have world class defender like this ex - chelsea player.I'm proud with Big Phil to let him go.....

    From George, on Sun 4 Jan 2:57PM

  11. Don't u think that Hughes should b given time 2 get 2 know the players and how they play 2gether? as should any new manager! Are all those fans expecting a perfect scoring team straightaway all living in cloud cuckoo land. Miracles DON'T happen. I knowfans are disillusioned (as a Spurs fan I know a bit of that myself) but they should b behind their team and manager, supporting them thru good and bad. So start acting like fans and give him the support he deserves. U never kno, if he thinks the fans r behind him he may just well improve!!!!

    From pandawitch, on Sun 4 Jan 12:57PM

  12. bridge is the best left back in the country and 10 mill is ok in an inflated market
    hughes is making his mark give him time

    From alan.brewster1965, on Sun 4 Jan 12:35PM

  13. haz-r-1980-- i agree with you on that one. i think pearce would do a great job at city, i was dissapointed that he lost his job with city cos the funds he got was next to nothing, then they gave sven lots to waste on the current bunch of no hopers. the bridge signing is a good one, but a couple of defensive midfielders is what you truly need. city are good going forward from midfield but when you loose the ball they're running strait through and overrunning the defence with numbers, dunne isnt playing worse he's having to do the midfield holding job from defence.

    From ripped of, on Sun 4 Jan 11:38AM

  14. WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY

    From I TYSON, on Sun 4 Jan 11:11AM

  15. HAS HUGHES BEEN SACKED ?

    From I TYSON, on Sun 4 Jan 8:05AM

  16. I wonder if the contract shall be still honoured if Manchester City were to be relegated.

    From sappercommando25, on Sun 4 Jan 6:29AM

  17. i also agree with ozunest. good comment mate.

    From Zak, on Sat 3 Jan 11:37PM

  18. wtf! wayne bridge is better than cole and i am a chelsea fan. i am disgraced at scolari for agreeing to sell him to buy more players. we dont need more players, we need him to sort his stupid tactics out. at least avram grant helped us get somewhere. i think he was a better manager than every1 thought.

    From Zak, on Sat 3 Jan 11:35PM

  19. Man City need to worry about one thing right now and that's defense! We have already seen what the midfield and offense can do, but the defense is the problem!

    I recommend to spend as much money to fixing the defense before touching mid and offense!

    From TeenBaby77515, on Sat 3 Jan 9:00PM

  20. This is message from Luiz Felipe Scolari: Goodbye Bridgey ehh I will much miss your ehh bench warming skills.

    With much ehh love,
    Big Phil

    From gene_hackman_stunt_double, on Sat 3 Jan 8:09PM
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