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Attacker, veteran Andy Cole agreed and moved to the club and signed a two-year contract with them.
"Pompey" agreed to pay around 1 million pounds for the 34-year-old attacker. A. Cole expects to be offered better conditions than at Manchester United and, as media reveals, the former "Man Utd" striker is expected to earn around 40 thousand pounds a week.
"The club is trying and planning to move forward, and I want to be part of these plans," A. Cole said on the "Portsmouth" club's website. - "It's a great opportunity for me to play the next two seasons in another team and I hope to show my best in the "Pompey" club, score goals and help the team finish in the top ten of the Premier League - that is the team's goal this season."
"The good thing about Fratton Park is that the fans of this team are incredibly passionate," adds the veteran striker. - "I watched them when 'Arsenal' managed to 'come back' after conceding a goal and beat 'Portsmouth', but the fans didn't mourn their beloved team's loss, Arsenal applauded for the beautiful game they displayed."
The Englishman, who played 20 matches and scored 10 goals wearing the "Man City" jersey last season, had not played since January 12 due to an injury, but on Wednesday successfully passed a medical examination in Portsmouth.
The player represented the national team 15 times and has scored 278 goals throughout his career.
Manchester's team wanted to keep the former "Newcastle" and "Man Utd" star, but the striker decided to leave.
Since 2001, when A. Cole left the "Red Devils," he has represented teams such as "Blackburn," "Fulham," and "Man City."
Interestingly, former A. Cole's partner in the attack at "Man Utd," Dwight Yorke also changes clubs - he moves from Australia's "Sydney" team to "Sunderland" in the Championship league, whose coach is his former teammate Roy Keane.
The 34-year-old veteran, together with R. Keane, was in the "Man Utd" team when the club triumphed in the 1999 UEFA Champions League finals, and before that, the player wore the jerseys of "Blackburn" and "Birmingham" teams.
The Trinidad and Tobago national team player helped the "Sydney" team finish in first place in the Australian "A League" championship, and this year the striker participated in the World Cup in Germany with his national team.
"Sydney" strategist and former captain of the English national team, Terry Butcher, wanted to keep the striker in his team, who made him famous when he represented the "Aston Villa" team and under this coach in 1998, D. Yorke was sold to "Man Utd" for a sum of 12.6 million pounds.
However, T. Butcher confirmed that the player still wants to prove that he can play at the highest level. D. Yorke did not go to Melbourne with his teammates on Thursday and stayed in Sydney in case he needed to undergo a medical examination or sign necessary documents.
