LDN Blue

This is what I mean. Paying £18million means, in the eyes of our club, he can't be that raw in terms of talent. Why he's being relegated to not having even a look in v. a championship squad in the only domestic cup we're in is a blinder to me.

Definitely not on loan. They're not working out for us, even with a talent like de Bruyne. I'd keep him at Cobham, let him come with the reserves first go get him to adjust in England with the Chelsea lads. I'm sure Lukaku would appreciate the company.

I still think they have a better squad though. The likes of Van Der Vaart, Bale, Modric and even Parker outnumber us in all areas of the pitch. Knowing our luck we'll be facing a defence led by King as well.

It's a valid point. Here we're talking about Cavani, Falcao, Higuain etc. Meanwhile there's an 18-year old who people on the forum touted as amazing as already and he still can't even get a blink in. Torres & Drogba fire more blanks than chances, Sturridge is stuck wide & this £20million kid is stuck in the reserves. It was a poor buy.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm sh'tting this. They'll be just as fired up for this, if not more, after seeing Arsenal leapfrog them.

If I were him, I'd hand in a transfer request. Ridiculous how he's not even allowed a shot in the FA Cup against fucking Leicester City. Poor acquisition, I'm sure if Arsenal had signed him he'd have played 10+ games this season.

Where on earth did they find the money?!

This man and his supporters would disagree. We got a penalty in the reverse fixture for the same thing, if you remember correctly.

The boo's were unneeded last night though.

Not worried, even if we don't make it there. Just hope we give it a good fight for it, obviously it'll suck not being there, but meh, we've seen worse things in this club

I was tempted to make mocking joke saying we should move Ramires to right-back. I now evaluate the 'mocking joke' part.

9-men down, Mourinho sent to the stands and drawing 1-1. Talk about bottling it

Yeah I know, I know, I didn't think you had

Yeah, but I'll give Torres tremendous credit, he did hold off the strong challenge of Richards but it was right for him to go off when he did.

I don't think so. Drogba's good at closing down games and truthfully told, Torres was going nowhere. He played well, don't get me wrong, but keeping him fresh for Tottenham is more important.

I don't think there's much we could really complain about? I mean the depths of squads on paper spoke for themselves. We did well to absorb as much of their attack as we could and we were simply undone by a mistake from Essien and a classy goal by Nasri. Nothing much to reflect from this game. Would've been nice to steal the points, but City earned them. Fair play, I'm content in defeat. Well done Chelsea, especially Luiz & Cahill

Doesn't look like Mata's forgotten about what Yaya Touré did in the first fixture, what a twat. Anyway we need some talent down that right hand side. It screams out Sturridge's name, Ramires & Sturridge could cause some real damage if they targeted Clichey because he looks like their weak link.

'officially.' Lol.

Yeah. I understand the need to be slightly more defensive, which is why I'm glad Mikel's playing but this is a game where we can attack the full backs, especially because Richards is playing centre-back. Zabaleta & Clichy aren't very solid, Sturridge could skin the either.

Own-goal from Tevez would be fantastic, even if it's at an expense of a 3-1 loss

Strange line-up, very strange. Also, I don't trust Torres at all, still, I really hope he's doesn't take his infamous 2steps backwards tonight! Midfield is f'cked up as well. Sturridge should be playing.

I'm bricking this. Prove my instincts wrong Chelsea!

Exactly! This is my case and point for using the reserve keepers

"I'm sorry that we cannot admire Ivanovic on Italian fields because he was close to coming to Italy twice in the past," - Anyone know if this was recently?

This is why we have to be patient with him! Can't be easy for him to change his player instincts like that.