7. Wayne Bridge
Former City boss Mark Hughes paid a rather generous figure of around
£10 million to Chelsea for Bridge in 2009, only for City chiefs to replace the Welshman with Roberto Mancini the same year. Mancini was quick to recruit a left-back of his own and brought Aleksander Kolarov to Manchester from Lazio. Under Mancini, Kolarov soon became the preferred option, and when Gael Clichy arrived from Arsenal the following summer, Bridge found first team opportunities hard to come by. He was sent out on loan to West Ham, Sunderland, and Brighton before signing for Reading this summer on a free transfer.