come on RAFA, all people in madrid stay with you

jc alcorcon, madrid,

I don't know why a club that have spent nearly £400m on players would start to point fingers at a club like Liverpool whose failure to win the title over the last few years could be traced to their lack of investment on players over the same period. It is not Benitez who sparks another verbal attack rather it Jose Mourinho who has a problem with Liverpool when he attacked them over their modest investment on players earlier in the summer.

Mourinho wants Chelsea to be a club like Liverpool yet he resents them. I think it is the fear that once Liverpool starts to win the title with much less the investment already made by Chelsea, Roman , the Chelsea owner will get rid of him.

justin chukwu, London, London

Malouda's "secret" reason, of course, is that he wanted to learn under a far superior coach; one whose tactical ability totally eclipses that of Benitez. Wise choice, Florent!

Barrie Collins, Long Sault, Ontario, Canada

Rafa is right, Malouda only joined Chelsea, for no other reason but the money. Even one of the fans favourites there (Lampard) knows if he keeps delaying his signature on the contract he will probably end up naming his wage, money is no object. Well no object until the Russian Guy gets bored with his toy and moves onto something else. Even with all his money he will never buy what Liverpool have done in domestic and europeon football. Keep dreaming Chelski..!!

Tony Bleasdale, Liverpool,

Tom

i think you'd find that liverpool only played 1 prem game this season..
get your facts right b4 making any comment please

George, london,

I am afraid that Benny Hill and the rest of his slap stick cast need to wake up.
They are so consumed by both theirs and their own expectations that when they are under pressure it is always someone elases fault when it doesn't go right.
Malouda, like all ambitious young talented players want to play where they feel they have the best chance of success.
If he decides that this is with Chelsea then that is his choice.
When you are paid the kind of wages these guys are on, you are not going to be swayed by what would amount to pocket money.
Liverpool need to get real - not everyone wants to play for you even if you have got an over inflated view of yourself.

Good luck in the Champions league - forget everything else - you are not consistant enough.

Bluerocketman, Liss, England

super chelsea all the way

paule gallie, norwich, england

It rather lowers the respect supporters may have of individual managers when they resort to comments such as Benitez has made on this occasion about Malouda.
Mourinho has ,in the past, also made observations , like "Gerrard will not win as many medals with Liverpool as he would have had he joined Chelsea."
Surely all comments like this have the effect of galvanising the individual/team for the forthcoming match(matches) ?

Frank Rogers, Yateley, Hants

They would walk a lone on Sunday

Kwasi , Accra , Ghana

what about torres then??? didnt he increase his own price tag...think about it RAFA

kosh, London,

Terry was fit to play Wednesday, Chelsea just didn`t want to risk him.

I would rather that than have a manager say, " Gerrard can play Saturday but can`t play for England Wednesday because he won`t be fit", how does that work ?

Scott, London,

how can people be saying that lfc have won the league after two games, lfc have only played one game so far

ei, glos,

RB's comments regarding wages smell of hypocrisy considering Gerrard earns in excess of $100, 000 per week?

To publicly question Malouda's professionalism & imply his decision to join Chelsea was only related to salary shows a lack of quality on RB's behalf & contradicts his previous statements about not being involved in personal comments with Chelsea.

K, Surrey,

What is it south of the Watford gap players at Chelsea and A rsenal get injured it is reported that they will be out for weeks low and behold as soon as a big game comes up a miracle cure is found.I.e Terry will be out for a month 1 week later a miracle cure is found, i hope the southern softies share their miracle cures with the rest of the country, if not the southern teams have an unfair advantage over their northern counterparts. Why wont one of them come forward and miracle cure Rooney, this is the soft mentality installed into the SOUTHERN part of our country.

Gary Anderson, Salford, England

Liverpool is a great team with a far better and ethical approach but Chelsea is more about mind games and money, money and money.They are a bunch of moaners and without a great history of success and they compete with money and nothing else and always find excuses rather than facing the fact.Appreciatio will always to great ever teams like Liverpool, Man Utd , Arsenal and the likes of Reading for their immense hardwork and fighting spirirts for making football exciting to watch in UK without a doubt.Chelsea is just a recent and we will how long it last .

Amal, London, UK

I am not a Chelsea fan but I'm just getting a little bored of how Liverpool have won the Premier League after just two matches.

I suspect Messers BenÍtez and Mascherano might have a lot less to say Sunday night.

Tom Maxwell, Reigate,

benitez is so afraid! LOL
Sunday will be a sad day for anfield.

Xtopher, lima, Peru

Liverpool 2-1 Chelsea

Sanjeev, Penang,Malaysia,

Terry is fit to play. Now there is a surprise!!

Frank, Phoenix , USA