Ronaldo

I'd say the club was lacking ambition if we hadn't accepted the deal, limiting ourselves to a stupidly overhyped, glorified battering ram of a striker who, if anything limited our style of play. We can get players a on a different level to AC with that cash. Seriously what is with the clamour for Carroll on here, he's not that good and never will be, he wasn't even the best player in our squad. What tools apart from heading does he really have to make it as a great player? His skill is average, as is his pace, intelligence and finishing. People need to give their heads a shake saying he was going to be a PL great (not specifically you Dave), after scoring 11 goals in one of the worst standard seasons in the league's history, a season where Leon Best has scored a hattrick and a newly promoted club has hit 5+ goals in 3 matches and lets not forget Kevin Nolan already has 10 goals as well. We now have a great chance to build a good footballing side with some higher level players, with this money we can get 6/7 Ben Afra/Tiote like signings ffs, If Andy Carroll had stayed we'd have been confined to alot of boring route 1 stuff and i wouldn't want a team to be built around him for long as he can only take you to a certain level as aplayer. Onwards and upwards i say. Good luck with that. Jesus H. Christ.

Robert. Had he been in a NUFC with someone prolific with their head during open play, we'd probably have won the league.

I still hope we go for Gila.

Sounds like Morrisons' own Cologne. Coloccaylor is better.

Carlton Cole and Ben Arfa would molest this league.

Coloccaylor.

Rodallega and Collison? No thanks.

Shola hugged De Jong like he was his grandma.

I've migrated from the second bar to the first one in the last week.

He certainly had our strikers bang on form when he was managing.

Lovenkrands is less suited to playing the lone-striker role than just about any forward i've ever seen at the club. It's laughable that anyone would suggest such guff.

Jesus H. Christ.

It's a bit of an indictment of English football that we look at players like Nile Ranger and conclude that he has a 'big future', like. On pure footballing ability he makes Lee Hughes look like some sort of fusion of Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi.

Pardew didn't sell Carroll either.

Oh yeah, loads. Should have gone into his own pocket for a striker, greedy cunt.

OTT.

The same Hughton who we can all thank for our terrific selection of strikers.

He's very slow and weak. He is what he is.

Lock it.

LLambias installed an extra lock.

Eight 0-0 draws will do me. I can't wait for them.

We need to condense the play, which starts with the midfield. The problem with having strikers like Ranger and Best isloated up front, is they basically chase everything indiscriminately. Getting midfielders up there to support is paramount in our current state of depletion.

Could be 6 weeks. He'll probably wear one of those daft protective masks - which will at the very least give folk on here material for new avatars.

I don't think it's anything to do with Pardew. The frustration has been written all over his face for the last 2 days.

Mental. We finally manage to get rid of him, and literally 2 days later we actually need him for the very first time.