BlueLion.

I would like to remind everyone before Robinho was even thought of as a Chelsea player, that the vast majority of us were very confident our squad was strong enough to win the league. My opinion remains unchanged.

Great news that Mikel is part of the B List, and would be nice to see Stoch, Mancienne, Hutch and Taylor included in the subs at some stage.

To be honest I think Man City are an innocent party, they had every right to attempt to sign the player, its Madrid who have been completely bastards.

Jesus Christ mate, calm down. A couple of bad games, so I guess we should have him shot? Its too early in the season to judge anyone mate, the players need time to reach peak fitness and form, and that will take a while because of a new regime. However, I do think the system we play does Anelka an injustice, he operates behind a striker such as Drogba, would be interesting to see them together IMO.

I'm getting the feeling Manchester City are going to suffer one hell of a Chelsea backlash in over a week's time.

Its too early to judge our play, mate, we've only played three matches so far and it will take at least half a dozen more before we establish form and consistency amongst the players, leading to better performances. But back to the topic, I think its a mixture of Kenyon and Madrid. Kenyon's blind arrogance meant he though the deal in the back, but I don't think Madrid were willing to sell to us, which is ridiculous.

I actually don't think we have three right backs. I'd say we have two wing backs and one right backs; because Belletti and Boz aren't the best at defending, to put it nicely, however our system does utilise full-backs, when Paulo is a solid defender who always is willing to answer the call. Can't ask for more.

Spot on, will be nice to give a couple of youngsters a chance here and there. Gutted we didn't get him but there are plenty of players around who I'm sure we'll be linked with come January.

Fuck it. I'm going to bed.

Of all the fucking days for Citeh to get taken over... god I hope we SMASH them in a week.

Drogba's fit mate, he played 58 minutes for the reserves tonight. But you're right, we need a fucking winger.

Its quite simple Peter. Give them an extra £10 million and get the fucking player!

I seriously doubt that. He said he wanted to join Chelsea...

According to AS and Marca, Man City have bid for Robinho.

Or does he mean me?

If Kenyon gets Robinho to join, I'll polish his head six times a day for a year.

I hope Paulo doesn't go. He's an excellent back-up players and can operate at left-back to some effect, as well.

Yeah, but according to the BBC, I could be in Turin to discuss a move to Juventus to become their number one goalie, with Buffon going to play for my local side's Under-16s in return.

That's a good thought. Everyone could use my threads for it.

Yeah, we just didn't have luck on our side. But I thought Belletti was our best player yesterday, actually.

Spot on, Drogba knocking balls down for a second striker, with Deco and Lampard as well, would be fucking lethal.

From what I've seen, although I've only seen Boz play three matches, Paulo is the most reliable when it comes to defending.

Let's just sit and hope, guys

Try doing this then, matey.

That might be a good idea. I suppose we have two options: 1) just post ratings in the match thread 2) give it a trial in the Match Chat forum with the Citeh game.