Ronaldo

Oh, you think?

Eh? What have (ridiculously inflated) transfer fees got to do with it? Ba will be on high wages (higher than Carroll was, I'd wager) and has a goal scoring record that more than matches anything Carroll has produced in his career to date... If he's leading the line next season it will be his responsibility to replace Carroll's goals if he starts the majority of our matches, and rightly so. No, not rightly so. We need a top class player to replace Andy Carroll. It's as simple at that. Ba is a good player with significant injury problems.

Same as Cabaye/Gervinho then. Pretty good.

What's Erdinc on Fifa, anyone?

It shouldn't really be the responsiblity of a free transfer to replace a £35M striker.

Is it the YT video i've just seen with Shearer's song as the background music?

A 1 in 2 goalscoring record? Really? Doesn't like a 1 in 2 goalscoring record. Looks like 1 in 3 for club and 1 in 10 for country. Either way, how does that compare with what we've currently got at the club? Better or worse? That's surely the marker of whether he'd be a good signing? If there's £8-10m to spend on a striker, i'd rather it be spent wisely, to be honest. Depends what he offers; Bellamy was hardly prolific but his all-round game transformed us dramatically... Stats don't always do forwards justice. Which is why I acknowledged that i've never seen him play - as far as I know. We need a replacement for Carroll, who gave us goals.

A 1 in 2 goalscoring record? Really? Doesn't like a 1 in 2 goalscoring record. Looks like 1 in 3 for club and 1 in 10 for country. Either way, how does that compare with what we've currently got at the club? Better or worse? That's surely the marker of whether he'd be a good signing? If there's £8-10m to spend on a striker, i'd rather it be spent wisely, to be honest.

A 1 in 2 goalscoring record? Really? Doesn't like a 1 in 2 goalscoring record. Looks like 1 in 3 for club and 1 in 10 for country.

Don't know anything about him, but his record is nothing to shout about.

Berba would surely cost more than that. That said, last summer I said we could only get Cabaye for £10m+.

Ancelotti to Alex McLeish.

Says Cronky, who said on multiple occasions that it didn't matter than Mike Williamson couldn't pass a football.

I'm still flabbergasted by the fact we have a striker who is even worse at playing the offside trap than Shola. Best plays off the shoulder, Shola wanders around. Pretty much, Best's offsides are usually from trying to get into a goal scoring position. With Shola its random It's not random. It's a lack of intelligence. The amount of times he caught offside and he just grins like a gormless idiot as if it's some kind of novelty really annoys me. Does then when he gives away free-kicks too. The complete tosspiece.

I'm still flabbergasted by the fact we have a striker who is even worse at playing the offside trap than Shola. Best plays off the shoulder, Shola wanders around.

I genuinely think Leon can be moulded into a really good striker. The raw materials are all there, it's just about adding the judgement - and we saw plenty of evidence he has some - namely the Arsenal, Bolton and Everton games at home.

No. You're lying. Best started that night, ahead of Lovenkrands and Ranger. Something you should have remembered by conjuring up that complete rubbish. Pardew started him virtually every time he was fit after his first appearance back from injury, and even made noises about giving him the no.9 shirt in March.

Guthrie is really good or really bad. Maybe with a little more time he can become consistant. Guthrie hasn't been 'really good' in about 15 months. NRC is twice the player.

I like Liverpool's chances of 4th better than Arsenal's as things stand.

I see Jonas playing away from home because of his defensive contribution. At home he should be nowhere near if we bring an N'Zogbia in.

We got to be aiming to take Spurs.

Aye, because there's no middle ground between a £25m+ valued striker and Championship standard players. Clueless. Gameiro is exactly the type we should be targeting in terms of ability and valuation. Shame he doesn't want to be here.

If memory serves, Boum was wearing a lovely pair of grey slacks and a white dress shirt.

I don't want us putting all our eggs into one basket. We've tried that before.

He'd cost mega money, surely?