I think Mikel is a solid defensive midfielder, he just needs more games to get used to it, which is natural for defensive midfielders. Only thing about Mikel and it's very frustrating is that he makes many mistakes, silly ones, and what pisses you off more is that they score from a free kick, and he was the one who badly challenged them or he mis controls it and it goes to the oppesition, he just makes silly mistakes like this, i think he will get better though. Mikel made a great tackle in the Norwhich game, which prevented the player from having a one on one with the keeper. Kalou, yes he's useless no doubt about it. And Ramires, well at the start, everyone here was having big faith in him, he was very shakey, he made mistakes, gave the ball away a lot, and i got impatient and pretty much just got sick of him, but come next part of the season he got much much better, i'm not joking but he's like a one of the best players in the world when he goes for it, that goal in the Man City match, just unbelievable, he makes good runs and gets through the oppesitions defence, just like he did against United, when Evra snapped him in the box and it wasn't a penalty. Ramires is a very good player now, he adds something extra to the midfield, i don't know what this talk is with Mikel and Ramires not working together, i don't think it's that at all, it's Lampards position what is put at waste i'm afraid.