In his first season at Monaco, he struggled to make the team ahead of experienced players like Fernando Morientes, Dada Prso and DR Congo's Nonda.

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Leaders like Barry Ferguson and Fernando Ricksen have gone missing as team confidence crumbled.

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The Daily News, up for sale by Jack Kent Cookes estate, reaches 200, 000 daily subscribers in Los Angeles San Fernando Valley -- like Long Beach, part of the territory the L.A. Times regards as home.

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