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B'ham get Dugarry

AFP, Birmingham
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Birmingham City have recruited French World Cup winner Christophe Dugarry to their campaign to stay in the Premiership.
Unveiling 30-year-old Dugarry at a press conference, Birmingham boss Steve Bruce said the player had signed on a loan deal from Bordeaux until the end of the season with a view to a permanent deal, provided the club stay in the Premiership.
Bruce described the deal as the club's biggest ever signing and expressed the hope that Dugarry,
who also was a member of the Euro 2000 winning team, could prove as inspirational a figure as Eric Cantona was at Manchester United, though his previous experiences outside France with AC Milan and Barcelona were unsuccessful.
"For me its biggest signing this club has ever made when you consider he played 55 times for France and everything they have achieved," Bruce said.
"He'll make goals, he'll create goals and I'm sure he'll score the goals that will help us to stay in the Premiership."
Bruce praised Dugarry's courage in giving up what could have been a comfortable end to his career in his home town to take on
the challenge of helping Birmingham survive in their first season back in the top flight.
"Christophe plays with his heart on his sleeve," Bruce said.
"The one thing about him is that he goes and has a go and that was something vitally important to us.
"He could have quite easily have stayed in Bordeaux and put his feet up but he has decided he wants to come and join us in the Premiership and that to me means everything."
Dugarry, who retired from international football following France's disastrous World Cup finals first round exit last year, revealed he had opted for a move to England after consulting fellow World Cup winners Robert Pires, Patrick Vieira and Laurent Blanc.
"I'm very happy," he said.
"For me its a good thing. I've played in Italy, Spain and now I want to play in the Premiership. After meeting with Steve Bruce I was sure it was the club for me.
"The manager wants me here and everything I've seen so far I've been happy to see
Dugarry, scorer of eight goals in 55 appearances for France, said his former colleagues in the French national squad had told him he would thrive in Engalnd.
"They have been telling me to come and play in the Premiership for a long time, that it is a kind of football that would suit me," said Dugarry, who also had a spell with Marseille when he returned from Barcelona.
Bruce added that he intended to deploy Dugarry as an out-and out striker rather than in the withdrawn or wide roles he has enjoyed during his career.
Dugarry had made it clear he wanted to leave Bordeaux - where he was in a second spell - for some time after disagreements with several club officials and was linked to a move to Sunderland last season before being seriously injured in a friendly with Australia.
Dugarry first sprang to prominence in the Bordeaux side that included Zinedine Zidane and Bixente Lizarazu which went from
the Intertoto Cup all the way to the 1996 UEFA Cup final where they lost to Bayern Munich.