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Originally Posted by Rob Ban Fan
I still dont get why Chelsea bought Alexei Smertin, he's a decent player but not good enough to push Lampard and Makalele out of the team. Hopefully they'll let us keep him perminantly at the end of the season
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I think the original plan was for Chelsea to buy him and loan him to a Russian club that were being bought by one of Abrahamovich's friends but since that move didn't work out it seems odd that they still signed him,only reasons i can think of being that it was too late to pull out or they wanted him to gain premiership experience but yeah,even so it is doubtful he could force out Lampard or Makelele.