Ronaldo

maybe it's a new contract for Ameobi

that fool of a son most likely

I think you're a racist tbh Assuming this isn't a joke, you should be insta-banned for this. And I'm not in the habit of requesting that people get bans. But this site bans for insults and that's one of the worst you can brand someone with. You f***ing prick. you assumed very wrong, lighten up The ZOMG I WAS JOKING smilies are a couple of posts too late. it should have been obvious I was joking tbh

I think you're a racist tbh Assuming this isn't a joke, you should be insta-banned for this. And I'm not in the habit of requesting that people get bans. But this site bans for insults and that's one of the worst you can brand someone with. You f***ing prick. you assumed very wrong, lighten up

his all round play CAN be poor. Just as Owen's can be non-existant His all round play IS GENERALLY poor is closer to the truth tbh. Owen's contribution CAN be non-existent. Do you see the difference? And I think most can see it but don't like to admit it. your truth is my lie then, that's life he was immense at old trafford last week imo...yesterday i felt he suffered (as he does a lot at home) from tight marking/being crowded out there are DIFFERENT types of player you know? martins strength in one area is another strikers weakness...that's why you need strikers of varying styles martins will excel, and did at the end of last season, when he's got space to exploit but at home he's less likely to get that playing on his own than he would be with owen or viduka...duff was with him yeserday and was utterly unable to do anything to create space for martins to use to me your argument is like critising a big physical CB who is very good in the air for being s*** on the ground, or a smaller attacking FB for not being as good in the air name me some COMPLETE strikers in the english game these days...i can think of torres, maybe drogba, most everyone else i can think of have gaps in their game and in that i include being injury prone absolutely except for Drogba 'maybe' being complete. He's the most complete striker i've ever seen tbh

I think you're a racist tbh

yep, needs to be sorted asap regardless of the substancial risk

his all round play CAN be poor. Just as Owen's can be non-existant His all round play IS GENERALLY poor is closer to the truth tbh. Owen's contribution CAN be non-existent. Do you see the difference? And I think most can see it but don't like to admit it. He had a poor game yesterday tbh, but his all round play was good last week and was generally very good when he returned from the ANC last season imo

his all round play CAN be poor. Just as Owen's can be non-existant

nah. no chance

Maybe he was off creating a new sex scandal. Paul Jewell sex scandal ffs

cant see him going to Spurs after all that's happened tbh

well whatever, but i'm not convinced at all that we're functioning that well as a team and we wont until we get couple of players with genine vision/intelligence In 2001/02 we were a fairly mediocre team with 4 star players, that didn't exactly go to shit, did it?

Coloccini's kit sponsor, you heard it from me first 3 weeks back

we could do a hell of a lot worse than Malouda tbh, in fact, we've got players in the staring Xl with a tenth of his ability, get him in

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