"When I heard Jonathan [Barnett, Cole's then-agent] repeat the figure of £55k, I nearly swerved off the road. I was so incensed. I was trembling with anger. I couldn't believe what I'd heard."
In Cole's Autobiography 'My Defence', the England defender told his version of events after a series of contract disputes that eventually led to a move across London from Arsenal to Chelsea in the summer of 2006.
But the writing was on the wall 18 months previously, when Cole had been caught meeting Chelsea and Jose Mourinho behind Arsenal's back. Chelsea, Mourinho and Cole were all fined by the Premier League, and though the player signed a one-year extension at the club, a year later Cole was gone, signing a £90,000-a-week deal at Stamford Bridge.
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