Ronaldo

Too much smoke for there not to be fire. I've pretty much accepted that he'll be sold in the summer. He's given us 4 years of mostly quality service, so I hold no grudges.

What an incredible cross from Joaquin. Valencia make it 1-1 away to Bilbao.

It's baffling, isn't it. He's like a cantankerous old codger who refuses to get contents insurance, despite being burgled every month for about 3 years.

When he was played at RB he most certainly did. On the wing he was far less noticeable, usually because didn't really move.

Agreed, Lua Lua should be fit soon and we'd get more from him over 90 minutes than Taylor. I hope so but I'm sure Taylor would look like a world beater in League 1. He looked dogshite in The Championship, which pretty much rules that out.

Thick as pig shit, but a pretty decent bloke and a useful footballer.

See above. He cannot even do the basics required of someone in those positions.

Fabregas is a world class attacking midfielder. There's nobody in their squad capable of replacing him and they'll have to look elsewhere.

Except that he's totally transformed the club from top to bottom and put it in a position to compete at the top for probably the next 10-20 years. They'll fail to make the top four when Fabregas leaves, and that won't be long. Wilshere will step up man. Arsene wont be sacked by Arsenal either. They are the only club consistently making profits each season and that is down to his philosophy. Wilshere will never be Fabregas. Completely different type of player. All I'm saying is that they have other players who have the potential to fill the gulf that will be left when he leaves. They don't.

He's incapable of contributing at this level. He's just a liability.

Except that he's totally transformed the club from top to bottom and put it in a position to compete at the top for probably the next 10-20 years. They'll fail to make the top four when Fabregas leaves, and that won't be long. Wilshere will step up man. Arsene wont be sacked by Arsenal either. They are the only club consistently making profits each season and that is down to his philosophy. Wilshere will never be Fabregas. Completely different type of player.

Of course they do, man. He's about on the same level as Tim Krul.

Except that he's totally transformed the club from top to bottom and put it in a position to compete at the top for probably the next 10-20 years. They'll fail to make the top four when Fabregas leaves, and that won't be long.

Hughes and Mancini.

Even if they win the league/FA Cup/Champs League ( ) they won't have managed it for 6 years. I don't think they'll win owt this year, and that'll extent to 7. Justice.

If we can sell him, we should.

They tried though, unlike, say, us. I thought Hughton was a top, top manager, you can't possibly be suggesting that he got it wrong. Well Pardew actually tried in the FA Cup and still cocked up, so I don't know what that says about him. And what on earth has Pardew got to do with this discussion? Get a life, man. You don't see how he fits into this argument? I think you need a time out. Get yourself down to a League 1 game and see how Carroll is doing... Our prospects in the Carling Cup have nothing to do with Pardew, no matter how hard you pretend he does to compliment your perverted agenda.

They tried though, unlike, say, us. I thought Hughton was a top, top manager, you can't possibly be suggesting that he got it wrong. Well Pardew actually tried in the FA Cup and still cocked up, so I don't know what that says about him. And what on earth has Pardew got to do with this discussion? Get a life, man.

Yup. A lot of people seem to ignore this. No doubt they'll be complaining next season when we have a few injuries. I'm not sure how Ryan Taylor is capable of contributing to squad depth. He's either a RB who's defensively absolutely atrocious or a RW who can't run or beat a man.

They tried though, unlike, say, us. I thought Hughton was a top, top manager, you can't possibly be suggesting that he got it wrong.

Wenger continues to be shown up for the fool he's become. Almunia last Sunday, this Polack joker today.

When we play it out from the back and it works its fine, when it doesn't work we should have hoofed it. I'd love to know how any of our players are supposed to knew if it's going to work or not. We have to either accept that at times it will go wrong or we tell them to hoof it every time and give away possession more often than we currently do. Personally, Im willing to accept that every so often well make a mistake but more often than not it will work to our advantage. Absolutely.

He clearly isn't though. He's average.

What makes you think that? From the club's perspective I mean. We got rid of Routledge, who was probably on far less than Raylor.