Source: Daily_Mail
£60k-a-week Sol Campbell to team up with Eriksson at Notts County
Sol Campbell turned down offers from the Barclays Premier League and abroad, and agreed to join Sven Goran Eriksson as player-coach at League Two club Notts County.
Aston Villa and Ajax both launched late bids for the 34-year-old centre-back, who was being unveiled at a press conference this afternoon, urging Campbell to delay his decision for another 24 hours, but he went ahead with the move to County after passing a medical.
The club's new owners are believed to have met Campbell's wage demands for £60,000-a-week so he could be reunited with his former England boss Eriksson.
AEK Athens were the only other club prepared to pay that much, but Campbellrejected a move to Greece as well as offers from Hull, Newcastle, Basle and several clubs in Turkey.
Although Villa and Ajax were also offering him a good package to continue playing at the highest level, he has dropped down to join the early League Two leaders.
Villa are weighing up several other options in their search for a centre-back but feel that Campbell's old Portsmouth teammate Sylvain Distin is overpriced at £6m.
Meanwhile, County are also trying to persuade Sheffield United's transfer-listed striker Billy Sharp to drop to League Two.
