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Laughable that a certain poster on here called James a 'very good' goalkeeper.

You're just being silly, and making up what you don't know, as per usual.

Yes, in a word. It would be nice if we could go back to 1996, when all of our players we're basically good, even-tempered fellas. But it's not realistic, especially today. Plus, as bad as Bellamy is, he's hardly El hadj cunt.

I'd worry about Sol in the last 15 minutes of games, it's only natural that he'll slow down considerably. The Wigan and Stoke (cup) games from last season are a good example of this.

Routledge wears the famous no.10, or else i may have guessed it was him, but probably not.

Those of us who went to the games think otherwise.

Colo's had one iffy season and one in which he's been our best player. Taylor hasn't had one single good season in my book. There's not a lot to compare anyway.

His judgement is appalling.

Which basically means fuck all to us, apart from the fact that another club will be beating us twice next season.

Mark Hughes is not a bad manager, what exactly do you have against him?

His verbal attack on El Hadj Cunt still has me in stitches.

Or at least can come up with an assist or two every 3 years.

Sven is a nothing manager without cash.

Aye, Emre could have been class.

You can only judge him on his goalscoring, because that's all he had to his game. Scoring goals (alone) isn't enough to make a player world class, unless it's a standout brilliant record, which Owen's clearly isn't.

If they got 20 top flight league goals once in there career? Has the 24 year old Xisco got 20 top flight career league goals? Genuine question. You've got mental issues.

For Liverpool, Real Madrid, Newcastle & Man Utd, he has 160 league goals in 276 starts and 65 sub apps. For Liverpool, Newcastle & Man Utd, he has 23 goals in 36 starts and 6 sub apps in domestic cup competitions. For Liverpool & Man Utd, he has 28 Euro goals from 53 starts and 11 sub apps. He also has 40 goals for his country. You like your stats, try and pick your way through that. None of that makes him world class. Over a period of 10 years he was generally a very good goalscorer, nobody said any different.

There's only thing you can judge goalscorers on, Rich. There was nowt else to his game, so that's ultimately what it boils down to.

Where did the Campbell rumours initiate from? I remember hearing about 4 years back that he'd had an affair with Jermaine Jenas.

He got 19 twice. Call the f***ing cops. And that's his bragging right? 19, twice. Yeah, world class my left nut.

A world class goalscorer manages at least one season of 20 league goals, surely? Unless of course we're looking squarely at Owen's creative genius. His tenacity and vision perhaps? f*** off.

Prime for prime, Shearer was twice the player Owen was. Neesy's comment above is a fairly decent way of putting it. Owen's only outstanding contribution was his goals tally. And he never hit the heights with it. Even Mark Viduka managed 20 PL goals, and Kevin Phillips got about 30 didn't he?

Him and Shearer were fantastic. Is that a pisstake? We were absolutely s**** at that time. And those two only had two or three games in which they both played well. Owen was never a world class footballer. A very good goalscorer during his prime, no more.

When was the last time we signed anybody that was world class?