Ronaldo

Ramires is bloody useless.

Doyle has been absolutely fucking crud this season.

Drogba's finishing has been poor, but boy, can he pick a pass tonight.

What rubbish. He has more goals in his last 10 games than Keane and Doyle have collectively managed all season.

Rather have Krusty the Clown in goal than Almunia. Terrible, terrible goalkeeper.

And then we proceeded to lose 5-1. Good story.

eh? was that not given at that scoreline and point of time in the game...WTF this is the reason why i love to see manyoo go out, s*** like that What are you like, man?

He was being marked by Bramble, what do you expect? Titus scored a great goal in that game, come to think of it.

Just don't ever do that with Ivo Karlovic and you should be OK.

Best's surely knocking on the door to start for Eire now?

Says the resident goalkeeping expert who thinks Heurelho Gomes is 'very good'.

C.Ronaldo beats them both tbh.

He made the odd daft gaff, but all keepers do from time to time. He made no more than his fair share.

Would have been Lampard's, but he's well brought-up and perhaps a bit too nice to lead a group of peope he doesn't know too well. Rio is an excellent captain, very much someone who'll bring players together, but he's injured too much.

It's because he's crap.

Lehman's one of the best keepers I've seen in the PL. Still surprised Arsene let him go.

Inter deserve it this time, sadly.

Fucking Inter, every single time.

The reason why he doesn't get behind the defense is because he never receives a good pass. He's had some decent runs, but the pass is not arriving. The attackers are dependent on a midfield with creativity that can feed them. Without Barton all our creativity is gone. I don't have the statistics in my head, but I think we've not won one single match when Barton is out. It's not just Loven who's not functioning, the whole team suffers. Barton's played all but about 6 games this season, man. Guthrie was there playing some lovely passes when he got time on the ball last season. His runs are usually in straight lines - easy to track, a second too early or a second too late.

Kieron Dyer taught him that.

For me he should be the back up to the first choice atm Depends who's first choice, that.

In which games did he play well? He's been bloody useless all season. Even last season I only saw him get in behind the defence once or twice. He doesn't have the pace to play the way you're suggesting, not anymore.

Says you, who's never seen him play.

Loven is an attacker that chases the room behind the defense. Timely and effective runs are his specialty. But to function properly, he needs to play together with a midfielder that's able to hit those passes. But with Barton out, we have almost no creativity in the middle. We have an AM in Nolan completely incapable of hitting an offensive pass. And our wide men aren't what we call accurate either. In other words: it was not an coincidence that Loven started to play rubbish simultaneously with Barton being injured. Before that untimely injury, Loven acutally improved for each game. What an absolute load of rubbish.