City are nearing the completion of signing Kolarov, who made two appearances for Serbia during the World Cup, has yet to agree personal terms with City.

But with manager Roberto Mancini appearing to have reached a successful conclusion to his month-long pursuit of the 24 year-old, there will be competition for present left-back Wayne Bridge at Eastlands.

Wayne Bridge endured a turbulent campaign last season, with a long-term knee injury and poor form threatening his position in the team.

Wayne Bridge has flown to Los Angeles for the summer to escape the World Cup and love rival John Terry.

The Man City star, 29, is desperate to avoid seeing his former best pal's face on every telly as Three Lions fever grips England.

Bridge plans to spend up to six weeks in the States while his former team-mate battles it out in South Africa.

The pair fell out after Chelsea skipper Terry, 29, had an affair with Bridge's ex Vanessa Perroncel. Bridge then quit international football.

Capello is still hoping Bridge can be talked into changing his mind and travel as cover for Ashley Cole, whose fitness and form are a concern given that he is just returning from a broken ankle.

Contact between the England manager and his staff with Bridge has been minimal since the scandal that cost Terry the England captaincy erupted. But they have asked those around the player to keep urging him to reconsider.

Wayne Bridge's former partner Vanessa Perroncel is reportedly furious that the Manchester City star is offering her only 2-million-pounds to purchase a new house.

The French model, 33, has apparently told her friends that she needs at least 700,000-pounds more for a pad to raise their three-year-old son Jaydon.

"Vanessa is being given the money so that she can choose where she wants to bring up Jaydon," the Sun quoted a source as saying.

"But both places she looked at were vastly over the 2-million-pound budget and were apartments so were not suitable for bringing up a child".

She became a social pariah after her alleged affair with ex England captain John Terry was exposed, but now Vanessa Perroncel is hitting back.
The ex-girlfriend of Wayne Bridge and mother of his child has claimed she was made out to be a prostitute after the news broke about the alleged relationship.

The 34-year-old also denied she was never going to sell her story, simply hiring Max Clifford to try to control the media frenzy surrounding her during one of the year's most-reported celebrity scandals.

'I never asked him to sell my story,' she said of PR to the stars Clifford.

Fabio Capello has asked Roberto Mancini to try to persuade Wayne Bridge to go to this summer's World Cup in South Africa.

Bridge is standing by his decision to withdraw his availability in the wake of the relationship John Terry had with Bridge's former fiancee, Vanessa Perroncel. But Capello is still hoping Bridge can be talked into changing his mind and travel as cover for Ashley Cole, whose fitness and form are a concern given that he is just returning from a broken ankle.

WAYNE Bridge yesterday made his feelings very clear about ex-England team-mate John Terry’s secret fling with his ex... by plastering them across a T-shirt!

Humiliated footballer Wayne Bridge and fellow Manchester City stars – including Micah Richards, 21, and Shaun Wright-Phillips, 28 – had special Team Bridge shirts printed on their lads’ trip to Miami.

And across the back Bridge, 29, revealed his true feelings about Terry’s affair with his ex-French model girlfriend Vanessa Perroncel, 33, who is the mother of his child