Ronaldo

Saviola very blatantly

agreed on all counts you think our squad looks a lot better as it is right now? you what?

Aye, I reckon I'd take Arshavin now, even for £20m. Lot of money but could well prove worth it in long run. indeed

As above. 3 points and we didnt play well. Surely thats a good thing if we can grind out 3 points vs anti football teams??? I was there and we werent nearly as bad as half of the posts in here make out. certain players were hopeless

4 wingers on the pitch yesterday, 3 were awful and the other one severely restricted

Steady on He was good but brilliant would be pinging 50 yard balls all over the pace, dribbling it upfield etc. etc. Then again compared to Taylor... :colo:

He can't win. He gets knocked for overdoing it and knocked for being no nonsense. The penalty and dilly dally moment aside, he put in a flawless display. Very good in the air, no nonsense defending, decent distribution, solid. The actual handball for my money having seen a replay, looks to be accidental. He saved a goal bound shot as he did several times during the game. I want to see that from a defender. If that becomes his game, no nonsense, he will commit fewer mistakes over the course of a campaign and with it become more consistent. He isn't going to be a world beater and never was, all I want is a consistent solid performer which since KK took over, he has been. Of course he's made mistakes, but all players do. Martins made one today when he missed his header, Owen did as well missing an easy header. The key is making sure those mistakes don't cost you. flawless my arse, those two incidents were no small incidents, they were examples of grade A pathetic defending. His positioning a good few times, a very poor header in injury time and the dramatic moment I mentioned are other examples. Credit where it's due, he was very good last sunday and I was very impressed, but today he had another game he looked a poor, unreliable defender Yet Collocini looked class last week according to you, despite giving away needless fouls close to our box and looking decidedly shaky at the start? Lets face it you have a hard on for Taylor for some reason and can't seem to analyse anything he does without your obvious negative bias effecting your thoughts. He was flawless today outside of those two moments, near enough anyway if we are to accept that all footballers regardless of position and quality make mistakes or don't always do something expertly 100% of the time all the time which is the high standards you and other critics use as a guide in judging Taylor and other players who seem to get stick. The first hand ball was ball hitting hand, the second, the one that resulted in a penalty was unfortunate, it wasn't ball hitting hand or even hand hitting ball, just a defender desperately trying to block a goalbound shot in the space of milliseconds, which is what he gets paid to do, shut out the opposition by hook or by crook. When Terry does it he's great, when Taylor does it he's showing off, trying to be macho man, playing to the crowd. f*** off man. This is getting ridiculous the stick he gets. Anyway for me the handball was accidental and unfortunate. The only outstanding piece of poor play outside of that moment was when he got dispossessed. That needs cut out I agree and it does him no favours, but I'm trying or would rather look at the full picture and assessing his performance today I'd say 90% of it was positive and has been since KK took over. That'll do for me because I'm pretty confident no player can be 100% perfect in every single way in any match never mind every match. I didn't say Coloccini was 'class' last week. I said he looked classy, big difference tbh I don't have it in for Taylor, in fact I spent a good while defending him in last week's game thread tbh. I'd love him to turn out a good solid defender, I really would, but time and time again he looks vulnerable when he shouldn't.

defenders are scared of pace and technical ability first and foremost

aye so was Boumsong Hey you get me wrong I like Milner think he's a good talent. Unpolished but learning and will learn off jonas just great. What I think is funny is people on here who think he's crap, worst player in the world then say, we should flog him for 8-10m, it's just funny. He's that s**** he's worth that to someone. To use Boumsong has an example is very funny though when you look at who signed him and how much that manager spent during his time here could you do me a favour and be very funny yourself? tell me what makes Milner a good talent. Because I see nothing to suggest he's worth the shirt

He wasn't. someone thought he was, which was my point

He can't win. He gets knocked for overdoing it and knocked for being no nonsense. The penalty and dilly dally moment aside, he put in a flawless display. Very good in the air, no nonsense defending, decent distribution, solid. The actual handball for my money having seen a replay, looks to be accidental. He saved a goal bound shot as he did several times during the game. I want to see that from a defender. If that becomes his game, no nonsense, he will commit fewer mistakes over the course of a campaign and with it become more consistent. He isn't going to be a world beater and never was, all I want is a consistent solid performer which since KK took over, he has been. Of course he's made mistakes, but all players do. Martins made one today when he missed his header, Owen did as well missing an easy header. The key is making sure those mistakes don't cost you. flawless my arse, those two incidents were no small incidents, they were examples of grade A pathetic defending. His positioning a good few times, a very poor header in injury time and the dramatic moment I mentioned are other examples. Credit where it's due, he was very good last sunday and I was very impressed, but today he had another game he looked a poor, unreliable defender

had a tough time in the air but that was to be expected on the deck he was nowt short of brilliant

genius

aye so was Boumsong

Taylor man, honestly. Did anyone see just into the second half where he had the chance to control and pass on the edge of his own area but he chose to slide and knock it into touch instead to add some drama? tosser tbh

What do people see in this talentless donkey, he's absolutely appalling game after cunting game

as many as possible, 2 established attacking players are an absolute must, as is a CB

fucking Derdiyok, we need someone capable of going straight into the first Xl

cunts, hope they stay away

you're glad we didn't buy him when we're forced to play Butt, Milner and an inexperienced 21 year old in midfield

Enrique must play like he has one leg in training. N'zogbia is a woeful, woeful LB

You have got to be kidding? this

better than Man u, he had a tough time in the air but looked colossal on the ground

just got back Given 8 - solid throughout, great save for the pen Beye 7 - good defensively, great recovery pace Taylor 5 - liability, constantly trying to look big and clever Coloccini 8 - classy as you like Zog 6 - shit in defense, decent in attack Butt 6 - we need a lot better than him Guthrie 5 - difficult game for him, inexperienced Milner 4 - dosghite, horrific lack of quality Jonas 8 - beats his man every time Martins 5 - not his game, tried but nowt came off Duff 4 - awful, looked very subdued Owen 7 - good finish, great runs Geremi 7 - this is why he should start ahead of shite like Milner and Butt

Wrong