Ronaldo

You said that at the end of last January too.

Yeah that seems slightly more likely.

Where did you get that from? Anyway, the point is he may have been promised deferred funds for summer that will probably not materialise.

What the fuck are you going on about, man? He's scored goals in poor leagues and completely failed to make an impression at a higher level. That tends to suggest what his level is.

Wey you seemed to dismiss Doumbia's stats from this season (and all others?) because he is/was in a "shit" league. Gayle is currently banging them in in a shit league himself. What's the difference? Sure Gayle has scored a few in the Prem, but he's played in like what? 70 odd Prem games? Doumbia got 30 mins over 3 games and written off

What the hell's going on in here?

We just lost to Oxford fucking United starting more than one player whose pecker you've been chomping on since forever.

Certainly, if you disregard the fact he's never come close to performing in a league of decent standard.

I think everyone on here with half a brain knew Curtis Good was shit before yesterday, like. Same goes for all of our players who've been passed around clubs in the lower leagues without anyone giving a fuck enough to sign them.

This sentiment probably doesn't belong in a thread about us losing 3-0 to Oxford United.

They're 11th, like.

Safe to say if Rafa doesn't fancy him in the Championship he won't be keen on him being anywhere near the team in the PL.

As if its been anything else. Doubt much will happen now. In the other thread you were being critical of folk moaning. Not much happening in this window is indefensible.

Fucking hell.

It would be perfectly fair if lack of proper investment wasn't one of the main reasons we went down in the first place.

Acuna was a fine footballer, to be fair. Our CM options were very strong during his time here or he'd have played far more.

By the end of the season only one of them was a regular starter, to be fair. I know it's your default to be stoic and that's fine but as Sewelly alluded to we're still doing pretty much the bare minimum to prevail instead of taking advantage of a position of relative strength.

Can't disagree with that. Honestly, it's one thing 'not paying January prices' and quite another sitting back and failing to invest the modest amount required to displace the likes of Alsoran, Colback and Ameobi. The same Alsoran (pathetic btw) who is our 4th top scorer? Your point being what? That you're having a mini-meltdown over not disposing Gouffran, yet he has proven to be fairly effective at this level. Yeah, a real meltdown because I think we should have better than Yoan Gouffran on the left wing. We made a huge profit in the last window and should be investing some of it now, with a view to next season too, should we get promoted. You know fine well going forward as a club we need much better than the likes of Gouffran, man. One of the reasons we were never in a relegation battle in 10-11 is because we started looking like a PL team in that second half of the Championship campaign and were able to pretty much hit the ground running the next season. If we go up with this squad we'll need nothing short of complete overhaul in the summer.

Can't disagree with that. Honestly, it's one thing 'not paying January prices' and quite another sitting back and failing to invest the modest amount required to displace the likes of Alsoran, Colback and Ameobi. The same Alsoran (pathetic btw) who is our 4th top scorer? Your point being what?

Can't disagree with that. Honestly, it's one thing 'not paying January prices' and quite another sitting back and failing to invest the modest amount required to displace the likes of Alsoran, Colback and Ameobi.

its a strange one. not sure which tapes rafa had been watching. as soon as it was known we were signing him, there were plenty on here already calling Sels out for not being able to catch a ball. Was there? Doubt many here watched the Belgian league regularly. It's a thing about not adapting and confidence being down surely. Wasn't he chosen the best goalkeeper in the Belgian league, surely can't have been this bad and yet won it. Adapting to fucking what? Are the footballs bigger in Belgium, like?

If Lazaar's a defender I've got a Chinese restaurant to sell you, btw.

I find it difficult to be angry with him. He's a work in progress and is, at the moment, without a lot of the things you need to be effective in English football. He might get up to speed eventually but because that mong Carr signed him as our main striker the expectation was and is way above his level.

If we'd signed Sels on a free we'd have still grossly overpaid. What the fuck was Rafa thinking?

Eh?