Ronaldo

Do I sense stress induced heart problems coming on.

If he wanted to stay I'd keep him simply because he's a good player who'd tear up the Championship.

Who's never at any point during his Premier League career looked like a bad defender, just poor on the ball.

We don't really know that yet.

Turning up to a water fight with an M4.

His exact words were 'you lot can fuck off with this, like'.

All of our players go backwards, though. Look at how good Sissoko was when he first arrived, yet he has a few good games for France and people can't believe their fucking eyes. We've had a huge problem with man-management and basic coaching for a long, long time. Rafa will sort it, thankfully.

And that's exactly why we need to go foreign. The most viable English candidates are shit.

Like the two times his goals kept us in the league? He got 11 goals in 22 games (I think) in 2014-15. Imagine if we'd gone down under Carver minus his goals. We'd be fucking screwed and without Benitez. Obviously he never hits the heights of his first half-season with us but he scored a lot of important goals after that. Right time for him to go, though.

Wish him all the best. Couldn't help but like him a lot, even when out of form. Thanks for the goals.

Mourinho relies on transfers and sculpting a team that fits his ideal of quick turnover football. Not to mention the fact he's a complete cunt. Nah, should've been Ancelotti. He was absolutely made for the job. We need a brilliant man-manager with a proven track record in knockout football and nobody does it better than Carlo in those areas. If we'd offered it to him a year ago he'd have taken it in a second.

Typical Ronaldo double-contrarian troll comment. Or you could just look up our record with and without him last season. He's a solid defender. And a very easy target.

Santon managed to stay likable while making countless errors leading to goals and giving you very little going forward. Coming from Inter and the Italian national side with Mourinho's praise compounded with his unassuming nature probably explains it. I liked him, but he's better off with a slower pace of football.

He's so shit. I don't understand what anyone could possibly see in him. It's a team game and the team always looks far better defensively with him in it. Obviously he's a poor footballer but we're aren't going to get a LB who's better than him at defending while we're in the Championship.

God forbid we played our best defensive midfielder. We're in the Championship, man. There's absolutely no need for a player like Tiote, it just makes things easier for the opposition when we need to put them to the sword and be done with it. As if we're talking about Cheick Tiote in 2016.

Yes, the reason for our two relegations was due to Colo being quiet :lol: Nah, due to him (and others) being utterly shit and playing for themselves. We both know we wouldn't have gone down with a proper captain organising the back 4.

What a header.

This is exactly right. You think about that and it's no coincidence we got relegated twice with him as our senior CB - both times with awful defensive records.

There'd be less hate for Pardew if he wasn't the manager, too. If you give someone a role and they perform it so badly it makes the club look like a f***ing laughing stock, culminating in relegation, they deserve all the criticism one can throw. Let's be honest, in a list of "reasons why Newcastle got relegated?," Colo being the captain is very far down the list. Unless you're blaming him for the fact we didn't sign another CB and also for the fact that we miraculously signed a lot of players with zero character or leadership. I think one of the biggest things we've lacked for years now is on-field leadership. When we go behind in games heads drop and don't recover.

There'd be less hate for Pardew if he wasn't the manager, too. If you give someone a role and they perform it so badly it makes the club look like a fucking laughing stock, culminating in relegation, they deserve all the criticism one can throw.

Anita would be about the worst choice I could think of.

Playing Tiote in the Championship.

And this.

Siem would be perfect if he could play 8/10 games. But he can't, so it'll have to be Lascelles.

That's my son.