The Chelsea Daily Drivel - A Bloggers take on the Chelsea news!

""Nico has stressed before how much he loves the club, The fans love him, the players love him. We would love him to stay here for years to come.

He is a great character to have around the place. He is a nice guy and a really good professional, someone who myself and the young players look up to and learn from.

He has found a nice home here at Chelsea. He has come out and said how much he has settled here. We have a good base of French players here as well, so that helps people settle in. People like Didier Drogba and Florent Malouda are key to keeping people happy and so it works well.""

"At the moment when the referee Frank De Bleeckere penalised Stéphane Mbia for handball and pointed to the penalty spot, the executives at TFI, the French terrestrial television station, must have been beside themselves.

Here was a moment of pure theatre, the kind that football often throws up but one that always feels so much intense and pleasurable to the men in suits when it is their channel that is screening it live.

Nicolas Anelka has been vilified in France for his central and foul-mouthed part in the national team's meltdown at the World Cup finals. (He is not the only one, of course). And this was the first opportunity for many of his compatriots back at home to see him in action.

The Chelsea striker is also a villain in the eyes of the Marseille fans by dint of his Paris Saint-Germain connections and so when he collected the ball for the penalty, the vociferous travelling supporters began their piercing shrills. The din that they created almost made this feel like a home fixture for their team. Armchair fans across the Channel, meanwhile, were gripped.

Anelka looked characteristically non-plussed. He waited for the fuss on the field to die down and that around him to intensify before ambling forward three paces and rolling the ball, almost in slow motion, past the goalkeeper Steve Mandanda, who was rooted to the spot.

There was the relative rarity of an Anelka smile as he wheeled away to celebrate in the corner of the Shed End populated by Chelsea's supporters. For a split second, it had looked like he would run to the other corner, where the Marseille diehards were stationed, which would not have been a smart move. Anelka has his head screwed on in west London. The 31-year-old could revel in his seventh goal of the season and Chelsea a bold step towards qualification for the Champions League's knockout stage."

""I think Ramires is a great guy, very humble and he never forgets his origins. This can only help him to settle here and I will also do my best to make sure he feels welcome - especially as he lives next door to me now so I spend a lot of time with him.

He will grow here and I think he has everything to be a very good player and a very stable part of our squad.""

""In seven years as a coach, I've never had such a problem with indiscipline. It is a difficult problem, grave, serious and will require effort from us all. At all times we feel that an act of indiscipline, whether from Neymar or a boy from academy, we will punish it. I love him, but there was a new event. We will have to act the same way (as always).'"

""The club will demand deep changes in his behaviour on and off the field, with his colleagues and opponents and will support the player so this moment of difficulty can be overcome. The directors are finalising details to hire that worker (a psychologist).""

""I'm here to say more than sorry and (I expect) no pardon, I acted wrongly, I left even my father and mother shocked. I'm ashamed of what happened. I say sorry to Dorival, sorry to Edu, who is the team captain, and to my team mates. I apologise to kids who look up to Neymar. Forgive me for what I did.""

"Dorival, who took charge at the beginning of this season, had a contract until the end of next year. He was in charge for 61 matches with 37 wins and 16 defeats.

He steered Santos to victory in the Paulista (Sao Paulo) state championship and Copa Brasil in the first half of the season. They are sixth in the Brazilian championship standings."

""The way that City played against us, they are definitely title contenders, They have certainly got the players to do so and any big side going there is going to find it difficult because they always raise their game. It's against the smaller sides that they have found it difficult.

Saturday's defeat was one of those things for us. I've seen quite a bit of City and they have not looked great, if I'm honest. But they were excellent against us, it was their best game of the season. They are going to get encouragement from that, from beating the in-form side in the league.""

""The message was clear from the owner, He wants to win everything and with the squad we have, he expects to. We lost some experienced players, Joe Cole especially, but we weren’t the only side cutting back. Now we are seeing young players coming through."

""I have a jersey with his name on. I rock it all the time," "

""I gave it him for Christmas.""

(Photo is believe it or not a mock up!)