Should never have been sent off. Very poor ref tonight. Barça were average at best and if Espanyol had someone who could provide a killer pass they'd have won. 21 points between 2nd and 3rd, and people argue the case for it being the best league in the world.

Does de la Pena still play?

Crocked.

Scholes!!

Anyone see Maicon's goal, wow!

I think moving forward a tad, what we will see is a fairly frantic summer this year for a lot of Premiership clubs, with the World Cup doing what it normally does and muddying the water a bit in regards to transfer activity as there are always over achievers and an influx of their 'stars'.

The way I see it this year, for the first time in what - maybe ever ? I think you'll have all the 'Big Four' on a serious recruitment drive. Ferguson knows they need to spend money, Wenger has woken up, Benitez has banged the drum for ages and by Chelsea not opening contract talks with Anelka, Cole, Ballack & Deco - I see that as Roman realising that Chelsea need to bring the average age of that side down and get fresh blood (I think the CL exit to Inter was the final nail and he made that decision that evening). Throw City into the mix as they'll do what they do, and we should be in for an interesting summer.

Should be a really interesting sub plot to the fiesta of football that we'll all be captivated by.

Liverpool probably aren't in any position to make major acquisitions until the ownership of the club is sorted out.

Man United probably will have a strong recruitment. Especially if they don't manage to win the league. But that will just mean more whinging from the MUST about the debt of the club.

I have no idea what Chelsea will do. A major worry is that Ancelotti has been recruited to do at CFC what he did at AC - maintain an ageing squad on the cheap. Of the 4 players you list, I only want us to keep Anelka.

I am pretty worried that Roman will go out and spend big on a flash-in-the-pan from the World Cup. That would be his style. I don't think the smartest managers recruit from the WC as it's a recipe for disaster. You pay inflated rates for a player based upon International tournament football.

I reckon Citeh will have a bunch of targets they want. I also think they'll get involved in every deal the CFC/LFC/MU are involved with to drive up the costs for them.

I would love it, love it if Citeh bought Joe Cole. The thought of them trying to break into the top sides with Cole, SWP and Bridge is hilarious to me.

Bosingwa's been injured. Unless he doesn't like England I think he's staying.

Deco and Ballack have probably put in less than 10 decent performances between them.

Joe Cole. My main argument against him was that he was after a lot more money than he's worth. He's supposed to be asking for top money when he's simply not worth it. But as time goes by I'm not really seeing any point in him staying even if he was on reasonable money. He doesn't perform when he starts and he's ineffective off the bench. Kalou is hated by a lot of Chelsea fans, but off the bench he's Cristiano Ronaldo compared to Joe Cole.

Hilario - Just for that Citeh game he deserves the door.

Anelka should be kept. He doesn't work well with Drogba, but if Droba's not working out, like yesterday, then Anelka should be in his place.

I think Chelski should keep Hilarious

I don't think this will happen. I don't think it should happen. I don't want this to happen.

But it would be so funny if the scousers rolled over for us in the way that Dave Whelan and Alan Curbishley rolled over for Man United.

Have to disagree with you there. Contact was minimal and I think it was more a case of the referee losing his patience with Alves for being niggly throughout the game.

After hearing all week how city are equal/better than Utd 'player for player' how sweet was yesterday?

34 years. Tick tock.

Contact may have been minimal, but he was going to get beat by the player and he made a lunge for him. You don't need a lot of contact to bring someone down when they are running at full speed. He was far enough from goal to have recovered. He deserved the card.