BlueLion.

Spot on, the reason why he wasn't performing consistently is because he never really got a clean run in the side with Makelele and Essien also playing there under JM and Grant. This season he'll play far more often.

If beating the shit out of someone is worth a 12 game ban, of which six are suspended, then spitting at the ref is worth around the same IMO.

Spot on. Most of last season he was shite, just had a few excellent games and a fair amount of outstanding moments of genius which covered over 89 minutes of doing fuck all in a match. As great as Joe is technically, he has those games where he just fades away and we're just carrying him through the match and its frustrating. Mourinho used him as an impact player from the bench, which is his best role IMO.

I'm pretty sure we'll win, we always seem to do against City.

Too expensive? If we have the resources, fucking use them!

Andre Bikey pushed someone over at the Cup of Nations and had a much lighter punishment than that, only a month I think. Ridiculous.

Damn right. Didier to get a goal, as he always seems to do against City.

I was thinking along those lines, some CL experience at Stamford Bridge would do them no end of good. Just fifteen minutes would be beneficial to their development, IMO.

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.