Shaun Wright-Phillips has returned to his former club after Chelsea Football Club and Manchester City agreed terms earlier in the day. 

Everyone at Chelsea would like to thank Shaun for his contribution to the success of the club in the last three seasons and wish him all the best in his future career.

Wright-Phillips signed for Chelsea in the summer of 2005 following the first of the club's back-to-back league titles.

With flying wide players Arjen Robben and Damien Duff key to the championship success in 2004/05, and neither unknown to injury, reinforcement in that area was logical.

He made his Chelsea debut in the Community Shield and Premiership debut off the bench against Wigan in the first game of the campaign but with Joe Cole's metamorphosis into wide player of international class, the 2005/06 season saw Wright-Phillips stay behind Robben, Duff and Cole for a regular place in the side.

In total he made 15 starts and 24 sub appearances that season, one that saw Wright-Phillips become a Premier League winner. He contributed 10+7 games to that domestic campaign but despite becoming the owner of a coveted medal there was disappointment when he was omitted from England's 2006 World Cup squad.

Manager José Mourinho predicted a much happier second season, and so it proved.

He scored his first competitive Chelsea goal in December 2006 in the Champions League against Levski Sofia and it was as a right-sided player in a midfield diamond, rather than a winger, that he rediscovered the form that had first marked him down as one of the most exciting young talents in English football.

Back on song, in the second half of the 2006/07 season he weighed in with some important assists and goals, among them two high-quality strikes at Upton Park in a big win over West Ham.

He played 19+25 games that season, won a place back in the national team reckoning and was in the starting 11 for Chelsea's 2007 FA Cup Final win but was the subject of much transfer speculation in the summer that followed.

He opted for a third season at Stamford Bridge and what followed was 31+10 games, putting him in the first 11 appearance makers for last season and passing the 100 game milestone, but a long run in the side again proved elusive despite a change in team management.

Last campaign he started all but the last of Mourinho's final games at the club - but Avram Grant needed more convincing, not starting him until a win at Wigan in November.

For the second season running it was in central midfield rather than out wide that he played his best football, a run of seven games during the African Cup of Nations period netting three of his four goals for the year.

His last game for Chelsea was as a sub in the opening match to this season against Portsmouth.

In total Wright-Phillips played 65+59 games for Chelsea, scoring 10 goals.