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CITY IN FOR pounds 18M GLEN; Football Spy: THE ORIGINAL GOSSIP COLUMN.. LATEST NEWS ... THE BIGGEST MOVES... EVERY SINGLE DAY.


Byline: JOHN CROSS

BIG-SPENDING Manchester City have made a stunning pounds 18million move for England full-back Glen Johnson Glen Johnson may refer to:
  • Glen Johnson (boxer) (born 1969), Jamaican
  • Glen Johnson (footballer) (born 1984), English Premiership player
  • Glen Johnson, a musician of the group Piano Magic
  • Glen Johnson (soccer), former Canadian soccer player
.

City are preparing to blow Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham out of the water with another incredible deal for the Portsmouth defender.

Chelsea were hopeful of completing a deal to take 24-year-old Johnson back to Stamford Bridge Stamford Bridge could be
  • Stamford Bridge, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire
  • The battle of Stamford Bridge
  • Stamford Bridge (stadium), a stadium in London
 within the next fortnight.

But City boss Mark Hughes This article is about the Welsh footballer. For other people with the same name, see Mark Hughes (disambiguation).
Leslie Mark Hughes OBE (born November 1, 1963 in Ruabon, Wrexham, Wales), nicknamed Sparky
 (right) has come in with a package Portsmouth and Johnson will find hard to resist.

City's Arab owners are prepared to outbid Roman Abramovich and will also give Johnson a pounds 100,000a-week contract and Portsmouth are now preparing to sell.

Johnson's performance for England against Andorra will only increase the demand but City's offer may also make him sacrifice Champions League football.

But Johnson's former Chelsea team-mate Frank Lampard has pleaded with the England defender to return to Stamford Bridge.

Lampard said: "He is a fantastic player. Everyone knows about his ability going forwards.

"He was a fantastic player when he left Chelsea, and has really come on now.

"You forget how young he is because he moved to us at a young age.

"He is top drawer."

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Title Annotation:Sport
Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Article Type:Column
Date:Jun 12, 2009
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