By Oliver Brown Frank Lampard was last night on the brink of leaving Chelsea for Inter Milan after an extraordinary training-ground confrontation with Peter Kenyon, the club's chief executive. As the Italian club came in with an increased offer of £8 million - which Chelsea said they would reject - it became abundantly clear that the England midfielder was far from happy. Lampard told Kenyon of his disappointment that the club's new manager, Luiz Felipe Scolari, had disclosed a conversation in which he claimed the England midfielder said that he was happy to stay at Stamford Bridge for "many years". At the end of a dramatic day for Scolari, who was presented by Chelsea to the world's media yesterday lunchtime, Lampard's strained relations with the club over his £125,000-a-week contract looked to have broken down...
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