Ronaldo

You can play attacking football with a DM in place. Learn to tactics mate.

Why do folk keep insisting we play a DM? We're playing exclusively against shit in this division. Everyone advocating a DM is no better than Pardew.

This is a totally different NUFC in a totally different brand of English football (even discounting the relegation), so the direct comparison doesn't really get out of the gate. You can only really look at what they've won and achieved and Rafa dwarfs Bobby whichever way you look at it. I do say that with an enormous amount of respect and appreciation for the latter.

Was it that idiot Ando agreeing? He hates Benitez.

He become a top-class CB under Rafa, one of the best in the league. Gerrard improved massively as well. He was moved to the right and become unplayable. Torres developed into a world class striker. Crouch become a very good player as well. Liverpool were so tough to beat and in Europe they could go to Barcelona away and win. Rafa's Valencia were superb to watch btw, they gave Liverpool a football lesson once and that was one of the reasons they hired him. Ayala was immense under Rafa for example. He's an amazing coach as much as he is an amazing manager, its very rare to find someone who is good at both. I'll go on record now and say he is the best all-round manager we have had, including KK and Sir Bobby! Don't agree he's better than Sir Bob, any man that can almost win the league and deliver Champions League football with a defence of Aaron Hughes, Andy O'Brien, Titus Bramble and Andy Griffin is beyond comparison. Best ever. Could be wrong but I'm pretty sure that was never our defence at any point in any season we qualified for the CL or almost won the league, like. Irrelevant anyway. We had a top class attack, midfield and a good goalkeeper at that point. Bobby did a smashing job but he's not in the same league as Rafa.

Game after, apparently.

He could probably finish top 2 with 18 out of the 24 squads in the league, tbh. He's just got that golden touch of seeing things that other managers don't - in his own team and the opposition.

Profound as ever.

We've got to win 7/10 of our games to be assured of promotion. It's a solid 9.

Krul Janmaat Mbemba Lascelles Dummett Ritchie Shelvey Diame Aarons Perez Mitrovic/Gayle Something like that.

You were being serious, though.

I've said it before: shit people from a shit part of the country. Pay them no mind.

Ah, God bless 'em. Utterly pointless but abundantly inoffensive.

Sissoko's not in a million years a shit player, though.

Plagiarise much, York?

Fulham have a forum?

He'll probably do as backup in the Championship, like. Fitz Hall, Zurab Khizanishvili, Tamas Kadar and Ben Tozer all played for us in 09-10. Mike Williamson looked like John Terry in that league.

There are some obnoxious people on this forum, like.

Ridiculous thing to say tbh, not many clubs in world football play without a DM.They will be times went Rafa will play two defensive midfielders and rightly so Well that's a load of shit imo but it doesn't challenge what I said about the Championship one bit anyway. We played Guthrie and Nolan 2nd half of the season and tore the league to pieces.

We played our best stuff by far in the Championship last time without a DM. There's no need for one.

He's a CM.

He's better than Colback, Anita and Tiote, though. All that matters.

That's about right.

What's going on in here?