Liverpool looking to add another Englishman into the squad

• Poignant

  22 Jul 10, 18:15

  Liverpool Set To Swoop For Manchester City Defender Wayne Bridge

  Reds look to Citizen Bridge.

  

  Wayne Bridge - Manchester City (Getty Images)

  
  

  Liverpool are targeting Manchester City defender Wayne Bridge as the solution to their acute left-back problem, Goal.com UK understands.
  
  Manager Roy Hodgson, having sold Emiliano Insua to Fiorentina and allowed Fabio Aurelio to leave, is ready to pay around £6 million for the former England international.
  
  Bridge has three years remaining on the contract with Manchester City that he signed in January 2009 after a £10m move from Chelsea. However, with the imminent arrival of Aleksandar Kolarov from Lazio for a fee of £17m and the fact that another of Manchester City’s summer signings, Jerome Boateng, played left-back for Germany in this summer’s World Cup, he is unlikely to be given many first-team opportunities at Eastlands - and according to sources close to the player would see Liverpool as a practical alternative.

  Since his arrival in Switzerland to take charge of the club’s pre-season preparations, Hodgson has maintained that left-back is a priority position to fill, and he has been linked with Sampdoria’s Reto Ziegler. 
  
  “We are short in that area and we do need to find a replacement for Emiliano and Fabio as quickly as possible,” he said before last night’s goalless draw with Grasshoppers Zurich, when he also confirmed that Albert Riera would be allowed to leave for Olympiakos with Philipp Degen likely to go to Stuttgart for a fee of £1.5m.
  
  Last season Bridge was dogged by a knee injury and poor form that saw him feature in just over half of City’s Premier League games, although he was given strong support from manager Roberto Mancini during the John Terry affair that prompted his international retirement.
  
  This is not the first time that Bridge has contemplated a move to Anfield – he was the subject of a £6m offer from Rafael Benitez in 2008.

• theyj

  22 Jul 10, 19:58

  Buy him please

• ASKL!

  22 Jul 10, 20:22

  good deal!

• AEW5001

  22 Jul 10, 20:27

  good move if it goes through.

• sg_forum

  22 Jul 10, 21:09

  Hope both Bridge and Huntelaar/Remy will join Liverpool soon...

   

                                      Reina

  Johnson            Carra        Agger       Bridge

  Maxi                Gerrard      Aquilani     Cole

                             Torres     Huntelaar

   

  Subs: Kuyt, Lucas, Jovanovic, Wilson, Jonjo, Lucas, Skrtel, Spearing, Pacheco.

  I hope................

   

• zocoss

  23 Jul 10, 00:37

  This guy is a terrible left-back... Probably the worst English left-back i have seen in years... Even Phil Neville who isn't a natural left-back plays better than him in that position in my opinion... I thought this would be the kind of signing only Rafa would be interested in... lol...

  I am quite impress with what Roy has done so far but... oh well, somethings never change i guess...

   

• sg_forum

  23 Jul 10, 09:16

  He is not the best LB but who is a better English LB except Ashley Cole? at 5 million, can't complain liao... ;-)

• AEW5001

  23 Jul 10, 09:35

  sometimes we just got to make do wih what we have.