Ronaldo

He was, at Villa and West Ham. Sorry I didn't monitor his personal training sessions whilst he wasn't playing.

You wish.

What is it about Italians? Disgusting cheating scumbags.

Harper Simpson Taylor Coloccini Enrique Taylor Guthrie Smith Jonas Harewood Lovenkrands

I see. He looks pretty damn mobile to me.

You need to ignore this blatant wum/idiot. Best keeper in the league by far.

eh?

I hope Boro get burnt down.

We need a defender or two in, just to ensure we don't get a glimpse of Simpson and Kadar in the middle.

Best win our group then.

I would rather try and evaluate him than their defence as a whole, it's harsh to say they've conceeded lots so he must be s***. Read it again.

Only 3 out of Group G can go through, whereas any from Group D realistically can. Maybe its the glamour of Brazil and Portugal that swings it. Maybe I've gone mental too.... Which is why it isn't a 'group of death'.

Loved the word 'could' in there. The goal was scored in the 96th minue.

It defintely isn't mate.

I definetly wanted to be grouped with USA. Shame for Ivory Coast, once again in the group of death.

His impact declined once defenders had sussed him out. It took them 4 years to figure out not to give away free-kicks? You might have a point, but probably not.

For once, i'm tempted to agree.

Sheff Utd have conceded 30 goals already this season, including lots at home. He's a good championship defender tbf and I would have liked to have signed him for cover in August. It's a different story now though, Kadar has emerged, we're less than 6 months from the premiership and he'd be surplus in that league.

Except Jonas.

Great news.

He played the first 5 games; 4 under Bob, 1 under Carver, then found himself on the bench for the next league game. Anyone guess who was in charge?

How many did he start & how many times did he come on as a sub? 34/13 That's misleading. He started 15 games in the league under the scottish twat despite being fit all season. Funnily enough he was on the bench from the word go with Souness and spent the last 10 games mainly as a unused sub. Basically he started 1 in 3 under Souness in the league despite us having no other natural left-winger in the squad (except a very young Zog), says it all.

Take away Solano's purple patch in 05-06 and you'd probably be right Neesy. He was an absolute monster from set pieces and imparted topspin on the ball that defenders didn't know how to deal with at times. Easily well worth his place in the team under Souness. He didn't score any from open play that season because he didn't start many games and we were basically clueless going forward. Souness wanted him to play like a LWB at times.

It should be noted that he had limited opportunities under Souness. Typical posturing by the Scot in not bringing him on against Chelsea on the last, probably the most pissed off i've been as a toon fan, until Fulham last season. All 5 of those goals in his final season were direct free kicks iirc. He still had some of the talent but just wasn't the same player once Souness arrived. Sounds like a pure coincidence that.

He was dreadful. His career has been a joke since he left us too. Magnificent under Sir Bobby though, him and Bellamy really turned that team around. Dreadful? So presumably you were happy that we left him out against Lisbon? He was having a decent season when he played, and was signed up by Benfica after us, which is where the decline truly started.