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Nobody Wants Frank Lampard
Published 7/1/2007 by Daryl at The Offside
... | July 1st, 2007 Poor Frank Lampard just got a major slap in the face. The 29 year old midfielder has been stalling over signing a new Chelsea contract, apparently turning his nose up at a reported £110,000 a week and demanding to be paid the same as top earners Michael Ballack and Andriy Shevchenko, who despite failing to do any on pitch business are pocketing a healthy £130,000 a week. So Frank s been offering himself around Europe s big boys, looking for a big money move. Unfortunately, according to an unnamed Barcelona executive, the big boys aren ...

Thanks, But No Thanks
Published 7/1/2007 by soccermad at Soccer Mad In America
A suit at Barcelona tells us something we already know , Chelsea's #8 is a limited midfielder: Frank Lampard 'knows he has no chance of moving' to any of the big European clubs and so will almost definitely stay at Chelsea, according to an executive at Barcelona. 'There is no other option. He has been offered to us, Milan, Inter and Real Madrid. Basically all of the big clubs. But none are interested. We are the same as those clubs are, we're looking for a player who is more creative and has a greater technique than Lampard. So it looks like he will go nowhere.' Now if only Steve McClaren could see the light and take him out of the England starting lineup. ...

La Liga news round-up
Published 7/2/2007 by linda at the beautiful game
... This article made me laugh, which is possibly a bit mean spirited, but the comment from an unnamed Barca executive pretty much sums it up: ...