The Chelsea Daily Drivel

""I was interested, I am now and I will be in the winter,”"

""He contacted me and wanted to ask for permission to be excused for a while,I understood his thoughts and of course I wanted to help him to get into his old form, to start playing regularly and I gave that permission, I'm sure that after sometime he will come back to the national team,"."

""I suppose we're on a roll aren't we? Maybe teams are coming to us and feeling a bit intimidated. I remember going to Man United when I was a kid with West Ham — we expected to get beaten by four or five, and we normally did. I went there once, we went 1-0 up and lost 7-1! Let's be honest , I don't think these big results will go on forever but it's great to be able to create that feeling as a team.

I don't know if there are any records out but I can't remember any other team in my lifetime scoring goals like we have, as often as we have. Let's enjoy them and make the most of our chances while they last.""

""I'm very lucky to play in a team with such good movement, especially when we're really firing, Defenders are worried about [Didier] Drogba and [Nicolas] Anelka, especially when they're running in behind players and pushing the defensive line back, because that opens up space for me to arrive when the ball comes into the box.

The easiest way I ever score goals is when we win the ball and move it quickly forward. What's the point in winning the ball back and just keeping it?

The fans enjoy it, we enjoy it, but it's not reality winning sixes, sevens and eights, There was a time last year when we couldn't score. We've got to be ready for teams who shut up shop against us so that we have to find a way to make a breakthrough. Those are the games where you have to find a goal from nowhere and be happy with a 1-0 win."

""We have got players here who are experienced and you can't buy experience in football - look at Didier, he is a specimen and he will overpower any 24- or 25-year-old. People have been waxing lyrical about Paul Scholes, and rightly so, because if you take him out of the United team now, they will want to replace him and they probably won't be able to.""