We all know Deco hasn’t performed well for us, particularly after such an impressive start in the summer. One minute he was winning the Player of the Month award, the next he was injured and he’d have been lucky to win as much as an argument ever since.

Little wonder then that the word ‘favouritism’ was thrown around a bit when his appeared to be one of the first names on the team sheet no matter how he played under our former boss. The 31 year old completely denied that suggestion at the time and with Scolari now long gone, despite previous comments about having come to Chelsea specifically because of his former Brazilian boss, Deco intends to prove that unlike Scolari, he is worth keeping.

Deco says “Maybe Scolari should have had more time, but in football you don’t get it. It’s always results.  Of course it’s difficult when a coach wants you and then he leaves. Yes, I worked with Scolari for many years in the national team, but I also played without him for years.  I have a contract with Chelsea, not Scolari. I need to prove that Chelsea made a good decision to bring me here.  We can only see on the final week whether it was a good or a bad season.  I don’t want to make an excuse, ‘I was injured’. I will try to show the real Deco for the rest of the season. But it’s important to be without injury and then I can play better.”

Mind you, whether or not Deco can keep himself fit enough to show us a bit more of the promise we saw in the first month of the season remains to be seen.

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