Ronaldo

An extremely poor man's Beardsley at best. Would much rather we played him where we did last season.

Yes, have said this before. how can you have a free role out wide, aren't you either in a free role or out wide ? Well, no. You don't have the specific responsibility to support the striker from out wide. Centrally you most certainly do.

He needs a free role out wide. I don't buy this 'no.10' rubbish for one second.

Krul Raylor Saylor Coloccini Santon Ben Arfa Tiote Cabaye Jonas Best Ba

He really is crap.

On the plus side, we'll have learnt more about certain players without the consequence of losing points.

We just needed the turgid Ben Arfa off the pitch.

I went for a piss. Why's it going to extra time when we got beat?

Did Obertan run into some trouble?

Told you Guthrie was great.

Is one of those Best? Erm, yes. Not sure why it's funny. Taylor and Tiote I obviously understand, huge loss, especially considering their replacements... but Best for Ben Arfa? Howay, it's not an argument you can make at the start of the game is it? Yes it is. A lot of teams play better with 2 strikers in the team. Ba plays better with Best. If we play HBA off Ba a lot of the time we'll essentially be playing 4-6-0.

Is one of those Best? Erm, yes. Not sure why it's funny.

We're missing 3 players from the spine of the team. Always going to be difficult.

"TAKE YOUR TURBAN OFF!"

You smug c***. I hope you're happy. Why do you hope I'm happy?

Sounds like HBA off Ba is working precisely as well as I thought it would.

There's some truth in that like. Certain players go through stages of being virtually untouchable on here, and Ranger was one of them 2 years back.

He really isn't. Lovely lad, but has a memory like a goldfish and can barely count to 10.

Looks more like a mini version of Titus Bramble to me.

Shola is as thick as pigshite. He'd struggle to manage a sock drawer.

Keegan should hang his head in shame for making that abomination of a human being a captain.

Looks like there's far more differences to me.

He probably does more running during PL games now than he did as an NUFC player.

He's just putting a brave face on it. He knows deep down they're not going to leapfrog either of the Mancs, Chelsea or Spurs this season. Or next season. Or the season after that.

I think people know Silva is the better player, but there's no real point in assigning him a hypothetical value or linking him to other clubs simply due to the fact he's a Man City player. Plus, Modric plays for Spurs and therefore has the non-claret-and-blue half of the London media firmly caressing his prostate.