Ashley Cole insisted that that he did not join Chelsea from Arsenal for the money. “It’s never been about money. It is about respect,” he tells Matt Dickinson, The Times Chief Football Correspondent, in an exclusive interview.
The 25-year-old has been at the centre of the most acrimonious transfer since Sol Campbell left Tottenham Hotspur for Arsenal in 2001 and puts his side of the story in his new book Ashley Cole: My Defence. Read about Cole’s rows with David Dein and his first meeting with Jose Mourinho in our three-part serialisation.
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