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Deco moves to Chelsea in £8 million deal

Deco will join Portugal team-mates Jose Bosingwa and Ricardo Carvalho at Stamford Bridge. The 30 year-old Brazil-born playmaker officially signed on July 1st on a two-year contract, becoming the club’s first signing under Luiz Felipe Scolari and the second of the summer after international team-mate Jose Bosingwa signed in May.

Deco joined Barca from Porto in 2004 after helping the Portuguese side win the UEFA Cup, Champions League and domestic league titles under former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho. Chelsea have signed Portugal midfielder Deco for a fee believed to be £8 million from Barcelona. Deco will team up with his former international manager Luiz Felipe Scolari, who officially started working at Chelsea this morning.

The Portugese midfielder was a key member of Scolari’s squad in Austria and Switzerland as Portugal reached the quarter-finals and has long been viewed as the coach’s on-pitch lieutenant. The talented playmaker had recently been told by Barcelona that he no longer featured in their future plans and had been linked with a move to Stamford Bridge on numerous occasions in recent years.

“It is good for me to be here and first of all I am very happy to be here,” Deco said on Chelsea’s official website. “”I am sure I have come at the right time to do great things and be able to help Chelsea go back to the way it was and come back to being the first one, not only in England but also to win the Champions League that has been their dream for so long.”

Deco’s arrival might threaten Lampard’s place in the team.The England midfielder is currently on holiday in Italy but with only a year to run on his contract he has been courted by Chelsea’s former manager, Jose Mourinho, who is now at Internazionale.

Scolari also might lose defender Carvalho, another target for former Blues boss Mourinho at Inter.

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