Rich

Harper Taylor Bramble Moore Ramage Solano Emre Butt N'Zogbia Milner Sibierski Subs Krul Bernard Huntington Pattison O'Brien Luque Carroll Surely?

GET IN THERE YOU BASTARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Moments like this remind me why I love football, brilliant goal and justice is served. Drogba's been invisible since he got that bash on the noggin but fantastic, get in Essien as well, fantastic.

Seesly, there should be about 8 minutes of stoppage time here. Deco is a little ratfink bastard.

Classic Deco, little arsehole. Bleh, I fucking hate Barcelona.

Ballack does his best impression of an overpowered shot on PES6.

I think hes done well to contain Messi still the best LB in the world IMO, who wouldn't struggle against Messi The key words were "going forwards" tbh! Done alright defensively.

Ashley Cole is gash going forwards - this isn't just based on tonight, either, he's technically weak.

Tits, good goal mind. Drogba is a right fucking nancy.

He must have meant that, it's not like he's a Sunday league player.

You beauty!

This season he's got 3 goals and 2 assists in 8 starts and 2 substitute appearances, last season under Roeder I think his average was definitely round about .500 for goals/game. So it won't have changed too much from then I don't suppose, still almost a goal every other game. Half time in Barcelona, nowt else to do! EDIT: Didn't include Intertoto in this, with Intertoto it's 5 goals in 9 starts (3 sub).

Not a chance.

Gera's quality, in all fairness. Milner hasn't been the hit a lot of people were predicting... but he hasn't exactly been given adequate chances/the fairest treatment since returning. Zoltan is an excellent player though, would prosper in a good team.

Using this extremely reliable source as my measure, I reckon we're looking at 25k tops, likeliest is about 20k. As it draws nearer, I am getting tempted to go, like - will just be on the kid's tickets again mind, no way am I paying 20 squids.

We had as many fans against Fener in the UEFA Cup group stage as you did against your biggest rivals and in most of your other games, I know I shouldn't bite, but surely attempted wind-ups shouldn't be so utter bollocks?

Not seen anything to prove this as of yet, what a daft post. N'Zogbia was easily our most creative player last term, he should be an automatic starter.

How French does he want to be!? Eurgh. In other news: in the background a certain shirt got me interested, "DYER 8" - in the European style, our next UEFA match is 13 days away. IS THE BLING KING BACK ON TIME!? That was more interesting than anything Sibierski said, tbh.

To extend the debate further: would people have rather had the likes of Sutton, Hartson or Kanu for a season instead of Sibierski?

If you believe we paid £5m for Sibierksi, then you're as thick as shit, seriously.

So Portsmouth get the lightning-quick Douala on loan for a year, a player I've wanted here for ages, and we sign Antoine Sibierksi... a 32-year-old no-mark on a 1-year deal... Words are beginning to fail me with this...

Shepherd will get lynched if we don't get anyone else in, I don't think people should give up on a new signing or two just yet.

Nobody was claiming we should keep him anyway, to be fair.

I can't trust your opinion when you say about Arsenal being a man-down after Parlour's sending-off, completely ignoring Bellamy's red card in the same game, because of Ashley Cole. Not to mention that Larry was a sub that night! That PROVES that you have a gash memory and renders your entire argument null and void... otherwise known as it's dead late and I can't be arsed to argue more tonight.

Exactly! TTM did a cracking job of reigniting the debate.

When you said Robert could dribble and to say he was only lethargic at points towards the end of his Newcastle career defies belief. He made a living out of cutting inside and losing the ball because of his lack of ability to take his man on. Robert made himself with a set-piece, too, against Man Utd... so to say they came later doesn't register with me, either. As for pace... he was relatively quick, but certainly nothing spectacular, I refuse to accept his game was BUILT around pace... it was built around long-shots, freekicks, corners and moments of individual magic. You go on to say Luque is about strength... are you for real here? Have you seen him play for us? Skill? He's hardly Ronaldinho, to me he looks clunky in possession and doesn't have a natural flair for anything out of the ordinary: Luque made his name scoring powerful shots, as you mentioned, can't disagree there. If Luque was played in Robert's position we'd see a lot more similarities in the way they play, it was proven to some extent in Luque's debut against Man Utd, he was like an identikit version of Larry, but it's never worked out for him since that injury and probably never will. To say he's "NOTHING" like him is a bit of a stretch, and to call other people's opinions "tosh" is arseholic behaviour of the highest proportion. :wink: We've established that Luque hasn't offered anything like what Robert has because he quite simply hasn't done the business/played the games, but this debate rages on - and I appreciate you for bringing it back in such an utterly moronic fashion Let's break it down, though: Luque/Robert's Similarities Powerful shooting. Good crossers of the ball. Both fairly quick, but not spectacularly fast. Good goalscoring records from the left-hand side. Limited dribbling ability. Both fairly workshy by traditional Geordie standards. Set-piece takers. Play the same position. Cost the same amount of money. Both not favoured by their managers (Souness/Roeder) Both destined to have left for far less than we paid for them. Both joined from a foreign county/league of origin in their home country. Outcasts of their national teams while at NUFC. Signed at very similar ages. A few of these are fairly gash, but they're facts