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Luiz Felipe Scolari's first Chelsea capture is Barcelona's Deco for £7.9m
Luiz Felipe Scolari's first Chelsea capture is Barcelona's Deco for £7.9m
Luiz Felipe Scolari has made Deco his first Chelsea signing, prompting a fresh question mark over the future of Frank Lampard, writes Jeremy Wilson.
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Frank N’ Dec!
101 Great Goals - latest football videos and international soccer goals from the Premier League, Champions League,La liga, Serie A, World Cup, UEFA Cup and more — ... to be released “with an electronic tag”, although his destination is up for debate. Alan Dixon believed Barton may return to Newcastle, but Ben Ashford claims that the Toon have terminated the player’s contract. Fives years after his introduction to the Premier League, Jeremy Wilson looks at the impact of Roman Abramovich on football. Yet most commentators choose to focus on Chelsea today in the context of their new signing, Deco. Jeremy Wilson notes how the Portuguese will “further congest the options ...

Chelsea’s revolving door: Does Deco’s entrance mean Lampard will exit?
CaughtOffside.com — ... The Telegraph reports that Chelsea’s Big Phil Scolari has got his Brazilian (yes, he’s a Samba boy really) chum Deco to join him at Stamford Bridge. Accompanying the article is a ...

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