Ronaldo

Aye, glad it's back to normal again too with the midnight finish. Think it's still 6pm, nufc.com have it as 6pm and the countdown on Sky Sports News earlier had it closing at 6pm, will happily be told otherwise like as I prefer it at midnight. Transfer window closing at midnight was so much better imo. Damn right, i'll never forget the 11:25 ecstasy of signing Antoine Sibierski.

There's money available yet we're 3 days from the start of the season and we've spent virtually nowt, it's disgusting, tbh.

And here we thought we'd go into the season with one single geniunely exciting player in the squad, what a bunch of cunts we all are.

Despite his goals he looked really s*** last season. He'll do nothing in the Premier League, and it was you who was calling up Lovenkrands for not being Prem quality (I agree)... yet you'd be happy with Harewood back? Come on man, we'd be asking for relegation. Of course i wouldn't be happy. But i'd rather him than Best, Ranger, Xisco and Lovenkrands.

Dogshit who's done an awful lot more in the last few years than Leon Best. Potential to be effective is no good to us right now, we need genuine options.

Harewood is a better player, i'd not be opposed.

Me neither.

When did the scottish c*** tip us to go down?

Leeds at home.

For achilles to rupture, something has to occur. Usually you are impactd from behind or it gives out when you push off to jump or sprint. There is no guarantee that this occurs on a different pitch at a different club. The achilles of Senderos as a Newcastle player exists completely seperatly from the achilles of Senderos as an Arsenal player. Does it bollocks. If a body part is susceptible to injury, it's susceptible to injury wherever. Direct trauma might well be a factor, but chances are this was coming for a while. Wear and tear or persistent inflamation being likely contributors if so. I've ruptered mine twice by the way, so this isn't arguing for the sake of it, for once.

Yes, there is a correlation. It's the same human being with the same achilles.

Yes.

Or anyone ending Owen's career. They'd become my favourite player instantly.

3 defenders and no defensive midfielder wouldn't suit Barcelona, mate.

Terrible formation.

Surely Hughton's decided by now, man, it's 4 days till the season starts.

We should go all out for Bellamy, he'd come here in an eyeblink.

That's the thing. At least there is a hint of benefit in having Ryan Taylor on the pitch.

We all speed, let's be honest.

Scum, get rid.

Knew it.

Absolute bullshit.

workrate and style of play; solano was much more responsible and worked harder without the ball...he was also much more "south american" in terms of keeping possession - he didn't lose it a lot in stupid places robert was very direct but didn't give a f*** about the team (in the way he played)...he got the ball and attacked, the rest of the midfield and defence covered for him a lot due to that...he was also prone to try and take people on in the wrong areas so to speak and got caught a lot, made up for it by scoring and providing plenty though, his end product was superb i'm not saying i'd rather have 2 solano's, i'm saying the balance of them was right given the type of player they were 2 wingers like robert in the same team wouldn't have worked anyways, tell me (and the others who disagree) why i'm wrong Solano was never a workhorse. He was ineffective away from home and that's one of the reasons our away from didn't quite stand up to that fantastic record at S James'. 2002-03 is an excellent example of away form spoiling the party, so to speak. Let's not forget that we accumulated 71 points the season beforehand, teams have won it with around 75. You put an identical player to Robert on the RW and you have a counter-attacking colossus, teams wouldn't have been able to deal with the pace and directness. Shearer would have scored 40. If Bobby had the chance, he'd have two Roberts on the wings, every single day of the week.