The Chelsea Daily Drivel

""I'm very happy to be remembered by a great team, but Santos is my place at the moment, I want to stay at Santos, win more titles here and, who knows, leave in the future. That whole story that people are saying about Chelsea did not reach me until now. I don't know anything about it.""

""There are more of us here who were with Chelsea while Mourinho was in charge. So the media could speculate about many players. You should never say never, but we have not spoken with Jose. If you take a look at Real's squad, you see that the goalkeeper's position is the only place where they have not had any reason to change anything."

""Everyone was disappointed about Carvalho leaving because he had six very good years with this club and did a fantastic job last year, But his desire was to leave this club, to try a new emotion and new experience. And we have in our academy a fantastic centre-back (Bruma) and we want to give him more possibility to play.

I didn't try to persuade Riccy to stay because that was a decision that he took at the end of the last year. The last game of the last year, he said to me that he would like to leave this club and for this reason, he went to Real Madrid.

Am I after David Luiz? No. We have Terry, Ivanovic, Alex and Bruma, so we are OK. And I won't go into the market for a central defender." "

""I am better at 32 than I was six years ago, when I came here, I am scoring more goals, I am more calm, more relaxed on the pitch and it helps a lot. If I keep playing in a team like this I can plan maybe five more years. I was only 25 when I started at the highest level, so I feel young. I still love the pitch, running. I don't count the runs I make. Maybe in a year or two it will be different.""

""Joe Cole has gone to a smallish club somewhere north of the M25.""

"“I’m utterly astounded to hear what Bruce Buck put in today’s Chelsea programme! I’ll have you know he’s gone to a great team who love him and USE him.” "