Morning all. We've got the Champions League again tonight and I'm pretty excited about it. Not only is European competition great to watch but it gives us another chance to rebound from the defeat to Hull before we play in the league again. It's FC Port tonight, a Portuguese team known for producing great young talents such as Deco, Paulo Ferreira, Ricardo Carvalho, Maniche, Costinha, Benni McCarthy, Jose Bosingwa and Ricardo Quaresma, and won't be an easy match to say the least. Click to continue reading...

Everything about this match was down. Letdown. Meltdown. Move down in the table. Jensen's game-winner from downtown. Okay, I'm done. Overwhelmingly underwhelming Portugal started like-a-dees:

Nani - Hugo Almeida - Simão
Deco - Raul Meireles - Maniche
Paulo Ferreira - Ricardo Carvalho - Pepe - Bosingwa
Quim

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West Ham are believed to be holding talks with Chelsea's Paulo Ferreira over the possibility of bringing the defender to Upton Park. The Hammers are thin on the ground at full-back, with Swiss international Valon Behrami looking more suited to a wide midfield role and skipper Lucas Neill looking off the pace. Click to continue reading...

Alan Curbishley is looking to entice this Chelsea full-back to Upton Park by offering the international star first-team football instead of bench-warming at Stamford Bridge! Don't forget to check out Online Football Manager! Chelsea full-back Paulo Ferreira is understood to be in talks over a possible move to West Ham. Click to continue reading...

Chelsea defender Paulo Ferreira is heading across London to West Ham United to complete the formalities of a move to the Hammers. The Portuguese international has struggled to nail down a first team place in the Chelsea first team since the arrival of fellow countryman Jose Bosingwa at Stamford Bridge this summer. Click to continue reading...

The time has finally arrived. Word.

Chelsea begins a new era today as it opens the 2008-09 season against Portsmouth at Stamford Bridge. The match marks the debut for Blues manager Luiz Felipe Scolari, who returns to club football for the first time in seven years.

The Blues are not only looking to extend their immaculate home unbeaten streak to 83 games, but also their 21-game Premiership unbeaten run.

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Now that we've skated past the deals that didn't happen, let's take a look at the ones that did.

The big four

Chelsea signed three Portuguese internationals, Deco, Jose Boswinga and, of course, Big Phil Scolari. Boswinga was terrific in Euro 2008 and looks like adding the pace and attacking verve to the right back slot that Chelsea already have at left back. Click to continue reading...

For some reason, I don't know why, readers were interested in our section on the best right-backs of the 2007/08 EPL season. Because of this interest, here is an updated list of the top right-backs of last season. Tottenham's Alan Hutton only played 12 games so he is not included, though he will certainly be in the 2008/09 list - he creates more opportunities for teammates than anybody on the below list - as will new Chelsea full-back Jose Bosingwa. Click to continue reading...

Football Rumours: Aston Villa after Arsenal's Hoyte & Chelsea's Paulo Ferreira

Football rumours continue to abound in the transfer window silly season. Latest ones are that Villa boss Martin O'Neill is reported to be after Justin Hoyte & Chelsea's Paulo Ferreira. Given that Ferreira cost Chelsea 17. Click to continue reading...

Not content with having a team capable of winning the Champions League, bar any slipups, Big Phil Scolario seems obsessed with filling his Chelsea squad with members of the national teams that gave him his reputation. Having inherited Alex, Belletti, Ricardo Carvalho, Henrique Hilário and Paulo Ferreira, Scolari has set about signing Deco and allegedly had [. Click to continue reading...

From an email:
You failed to mention that Beckham dove on his penalty kick ;)
C'mon, you know the truth...

Truth? This reader probably can't handle the truth that the Beckham PK was about as legitimate as Robbie Rogers going down so quickly in the box from a Klein bump. Both players were fouled, in my opinion, both lightly. Click to continue reading...

Chelsea players haven't had the best Euro 2008. Well, with the exception of Michael Ballack. Let's take a visual look back at the Blues' finest (minus Ballack) in Austria and Switzerland. P.S. I think that Pete Cech ferris wheel gave him a big head.

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This match just goes to show you... If you want to spend a small percentage of a game in attack, you had better make it count. Germany did just that and had the following line up to contend with at the beginning of the match...

Cristiano Ronaldo - Nuno Gomes - Simão
Deco - João Moutinho - Petit
Paulo Ferreira - Ricardo Carvalho - Pepe - Bosingwa
Ricardo

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Got to admit, Michael Ballack had a great game tonight. He looked imperious and confident in Germany's midfield, box to box, composed on that ball, a constant menace and the winning goal. A proper captain's performance.

But I can't help thinking he gave Paulo Ferreira an almighty shove in the back before heading home Bastian Schweinsteiger's cross.

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WELCOME TO CHELSEA

From a selfish point of view I am glad Portugal lost to Germany last night and therefore Portugal's interest in Euro 2008 is over, because it means Luiz Filipe Scolari can start to forget he is an International manager and concentrate on becoming a club manager with Chelsea. Click to continue reading...

Alemania derrotó 3-2 a Portugal en los cuartos de final de la Eurocopa de Austria y Suiza, y así accedió a las semifinales del torneo.

Los lusos llegaban como favoritos para muchos, pero Alemania impuso la historia y logró derrotar a la selección de Cristiano Ronaldo, que no apareció en este torneo como algunos esperaban. Click to continue reading...

Blogger disclaimer: Sagres and Macieira are a lethal combination. Especially when you're faking a sales meeting during working hours in order to watch a match. And you have to go BACK to the office after the game. As with the match against Turkey, Portugal again lined up exactly how I figured they would:

Cristiano Ronaldo - Nuno Gomes - Simão
Deco - João Moutinho - Petit
Paulo Ferreira - Ricardo Carvalho - Pepe - Bosingwa
Ricardo

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Euro 2008 is off to a rousing start. Rousing? Well, at least Greece lost. The first round of games have been completed, so let's take a look at how Chelsea players have faired thus far in Austria and Switzerland.

Jose Bosingwa
Our newest signing was undoubtedly our best performer through round 1.

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Chelsea were quiet in the transfer window in the summer and are relatively low profile this month too. Yet their scouts are searching throughout Europe the players that they would require to fill in certain gaps in the team for the rest of the season and one such player as identified by club manager Avram [. Click to continue reading...