Man City Owners Working Their Way Through Chelsea?

Funny thing really, when there were whispers around Man City possibly putting in a bid for Wayne Bridge in January, I wondered why it was him and not Ashley Cole.

 

I mean, rumour has it Hughes has earmarked what he considers to be the best players in the world in each position, and Cole’s got the edge over his semi-retired stand-in surely (in terms of football, not personality obviously)?

 

Mind you, he’s apparently picked John Terry over Ricardo Carvalho as well so I shouldn’t have been too surprised really.

 

Still, I suppose where the press are concerned it was only a matter of time, so yesterday we did indeed read all about City’s billionaire owners’ plans to put in a £20million bid for Cole in January.

 

Cole has only 2 ½ years left on a contract that pays him £82,000 a week in comparison to the sort of incomes some of his team-mates earn and no doubt fully aware of the sort of integrity he showed in making the switch from Arsenal to Chelsea, the Arabs are hoping the offer of £130,000 a week will see him hot-foot it over to Eastlands.

 

And with the left-back in a position to "buy out" his contract and move for nothing next summer anyway, this clearly doesn’t put Chelsea in a very comfortable position.