Spurs may bid for Bridge

TOTTENHAM will test Chelsea’s resolve to hang on to their fringe players by making a £6 million (€8.8m) move for England left-back Wayne Bridge.

Coach Martin Jol off-loaded defender Noe Pamarot along with midfielders Sean Davis and Pedro Mendes to Portsmouth in a £7.5m (€11m) deal and then refused to rule out making a move for the unsettled Bridge.

Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho has repeatedly insisted nobody will be leaving his Stamford Bridge squad unless they want to quit.

But that situation may change once Spurs make an official approach for Bridge who is desperate for first-team football ahead of this summer’s World Cup finals in Germany.

Bridge has yet to figure in the Premiership for Chelsea since recovering from the ankle fracture he sustained against Newcastle in the FA Cup quarter-final last season.