Deco tempted by Jose reunion
The Portuguese playmaker was the creative lynchpin of Mourinho’s all-conquering Porto side before moving to the Nou Camp, where after a scintillating start to his career in Spain he appears to have fallen out of favour.
Summer speculation has linked the 29-year-old with a move away from Catalonia, and Deco said a move to Stamford Bridge would be tempting.
“The idea of working with Jose again appeals to me,” the Brazilian-born player said. “He was a huge influence on my career and he did so much for me. I’ve worked with him before and it would be good to work with him again.”
“The Premier League is definitely on a par with La Liga — and playing there absolutely appeals to me. The English league is a possibility and it would definitely be somewhere I’d like to play.
“There’s no doubt that you can compare Manchester United and Chelsea to Barcelona. They are both huge clubs and playing for clubs like that would always be an attractive proposition.”
Meanwhile, Liverpool striker Andriy Voronin has backed his Ukraine strike partner Andriy Shevchenko to banish his first-season blues at Chelsea and take the Premier League by storm this term.
Shevchenko, a £30m signing from AC Milan last summer, struggled badly in his first season in England, finding the net just four times in the league.
But Voronin, who moved to Anfield on a Bosman from Bayer Leverkusen at the start of this month, believes ‘Sheva’ will be ready to show his true colours after a year of bedding in.
“I spoke to Shevchenko about coming to Liverpool and he remains one of the great strikers in Europe,” Voronin said. “He didn’t perform as well as he was expected to last season, but he played in Italian football for seven seasons with AC Milan and that league is totally different to the English game.
“Maybe he just needed a little more time to get used to the English style. I think he’ll do better this season because he is a goalscorer.”
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