Ronaldo

We had no choice but to play Lascelles back then did we? Burn was our starting LB at that point and Botman was injured.

They’re very loyal to managers. There was obviously an adjustment period straight after Sir Alex but I think he rubbed them up the wrong way, similar to Bruce did here (to compound the atrocious football).

What on earth is he doing?

Turf Moor isn’t going to be a bastion of entertaining football this season.

Right if you think he should have been allowed to play that much football in Africa on the back of no pre-season, fair enough. Waste of my time. The club got it absolutely spot on.

Hands up. Someone said he played full game and then 74 mins against Senegal. It’s too much football given his circumstances.

You’re not the brightest are you @Fak? Nobody said we injured him. He shouldn’t have been playing 170 minutes in the space of 4 days including the full game against South bloody Sudan after not training properly all summer. The club were well within their rights to have an input on this.

He’s our player. We pay him. There needs to be open communication and sensible management of minutes in collaboration with the club.

Surely his minutes should have been managed better having not trained properly? We both known Liverpool have communicated with Sweden in ensuring he only played quarter of an hour or whatever over there.

I couldn’t care less. Just wish we were a bit better with this stuff instead of being miles behind a club we’re trying to emulate.

Liverpool are managing it well including his minutes on international duty. Contrast with us having our new £55m striker who hadn’t trained in months running around a dog track.

They’re down to the bare bones to be fair. I think they’ll be OK.

As much as Romero is an arsehole that disallowed Spurs goal is scandalous. Benefit of VAR and the stupid noncing bastards still can’t get that right.

Bit harsh on a few of our lot who were very good but I agree he was excellent. Head and shoulders above the rest of our midfield for certain.

He’s so irreplaceable.

Yeah absolutely can’t ask for a better debut all things considered. We missed his midfield - attack link up massively when he was replaced by that headless chicken.

Just announced over the PA as ‘Nick Woltermad-ey’. That bloke needs sending to the job centre.

He was interviewed on Talksport about 18 months ago when the guy called him one of the most handsome footballers in the league. Schar’s response was a really confused ‘oh, well…OK’.

Not even Gordon’s dad would back him to succeed as a striker.

5 defenders and one of the wing backs can’t run against Wolves at home? No thanks.

Why wouldn’t he? Loads have done it.

There’s another one like 4 weeks later too.

The only award Coloccini won in 2016 was shittest club captain. We also got relegated.

I absolutely refuse to believe he’s anything approaching a cunt after seeing that interview. I think he’s going to be, at worst, a real cult hero here.