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Chelsea 'move on Wright-Phillips'
|  Wright-Phillips scored 12 goals for City last season
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Chelsea are poised to make another high-profile swoop after reportedly agreeing an £18m deal for Manchester City winger Shaun Wright-Phillips.
Both The Sun and the Daily Mirror revealed that the Premiership champions had agreed a five-year deal with the 23-year-old England international.
City boss Stuart Pearce had hoped to keep the highly-rated Wright-Phillips, who signed a new contract last season.
But the club are heavily in debt and could not refuse the offer.
Wright-Phillips, joined City in the summer of 1998 having been a trainee at Nottingham Forest and has played almost 150 games for the club.
Arsenal were also thought to be keen to sign him but could not compete with the spending power of Roman Abramovich.
Chelsea, who have also agreed a compensation deal with Tottenham over sporting director Frank Arneson, spent £8m earlier in the summer for Athletic Bilbao left-back Asier Del Horno. Should the deal go ahead, City may be able to use some of the money to pursue Southampton's England striker Peter Crouch.
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