Ramires Thanks Ex-Arsenal Players Gilberto Silva & Julio Baptista For Advising Him To Make Move To Chelsea Brazilian is nearing a deal to join the Premier League champions By Anthony Sciarrino Aug 6, 2010 1:42:00 AM Ramires credited former Arsenal players Gilberto Silva and Julio Baptista for helping him make the decision to join Chelsea this summer. The Brazil World Cup star is on the verge of completing a ￡18.3 million move from Benfica, who he helped win the Portuguese Liga title last season. The 23-year-old had trouble deciding whether to join the defending Premier League champions, but international team-mates Silva and Baptista convinced him that a move to England was the right move to make. “Gilberto, Julio Baptista and others gave me confidence by insisting I must accept this chance,” Ramires told The Sun. "In the end the Chelsea proposition was impossible to reject - not just because of the money but the chance to spend every day at one of the best clubs in the world. "As a boy in Brazil I watched the Premier League and I remember how Chelsea and Manchester United played such attractive football. "This summer has been a dream - the Portuguese title with Benfica, the call of Brazil, the World Cup and now the jump into the Premier League." --

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