What ever happenned to taking his chances in the premier league with two hands and scoring great goals etc.???
He has now become Scolari's golden boy who sucks crap. Why was Ballack (who was performing averagely) subbed against West Ham instead Deco? (who was playing below averagely!)
Deco has become slightly useless of late, aside from scoring a fantastic bicycle against Bolton (hoorah) his vision seems to be lacking, he is not fast enough, and cannot compete for 50-50's because of his size and lack of strength. Am I the only one who is fed up here?

i havent seen a chelsea game in ages...

You are the only one who is fed up here max. For one, you are the only Chelsea fan, thus more likely to notice aspects of the game to do with Chelsea, and two, Deco has not suddenly become a bad player, he has just dipped in form. After a magnificent beggining to premiership life, he has subsided as most players eventually will. Do not lose heart dear friend, all is not lost.

bryn the o wise one

i watched everton v chelsea today... it was kinda crap. the whole team was kinda blah incl deco. <3 terry getting red cards

totally agree, was an awful game! Chelsea lacked imputus going forward and Everton did not press their advantage. I stopped watching as a result. Not a game for the neutral.

how things can change in three months. It was not long ago where Chelsea were being hailed as the most exciting team in the premiership and the title was gift wrapped for them. C'mon boys. Faith doesn't fade so easily. But Deco is still playing like crap, and being played to often by Scolari.

yeah he really did play awfully that game. I cant remember any other games he has done that badly in though. Besides no chelsea players played well in that game... except Cech.

and Ashley Cole. And John Obi Mikel.

chels got bad cos of a lack of carvalho and essien... those two are strong in getting chels through everything and giving them long lasting confidence which equals playing well

which leads to the conclusion that there are stand out players in chelsea.

carv and essien

lack of standout players + lack of confidence = loss of morale + loss of results -> team in bad state

max, you are 2nd in the premier league, and still in the champions league. Stop whining.

Bryn, we've only won 3 of our last 8 games. That is lower mid table form.

Yes, key word, form. You will stop losing. You are second.

oh yay. We had a rough ride but we managed to deal with the difficult side that is West Brom away from home. We squandered 4 1v1's and several million 4v4/4v3's etc. Our final shot/final balls were AVERAGE!

meh, you are not on top of your game, but you are not in danger.