Ronaldo

It's not, though, is it.

Be quiet, man.

Hype.

Why wouldn't he be pleased? He's going regardless.

Looks like he's going, then.

How do you decide on who's fit for premier league purpose? Danny Simpson has a premier league winner's medal round his neck right now, did you predict that? You've spent the best part of a year (rightly) alluding to the fact too many of our players can't compete physically and that Steve McClaren is a shit manager. Now you're saying the bloke most responsible for bringing them here isn't culpable.

Oh, he was being paid to spend the past 4 years signing players not fit for PL football, then? Ok.

We've just been relegated after signing his players/managers for the past half-decade, man. Of course he's a shit scout.

The thing I've questioned, repeatedly, is Carr's ability to find players - ie seeing things on the pitch that you average bloke couldn't, then bringing the right players to the club for our purposes. Nobody would argue the 3 players mentioned don't represent good business. It obvious his 'skill' lies in discovering when players are sometimes going for less than they're worth. That isn't scouting, it's networking. He's a shit scout with decent contacts, basically.

Words fail me.

Spotting a price/contractual vulnerability and spotting a player are two completely different things. Anyone giving him credit for 'spotting' those three needs a fucking slap. I don't even like French football but I knew all 3 would be very good signings before we got them.

Except hardly any of us knew who Cabaye was when we signed him and don't lie. Fuck off. He'd been suggested on here before we signed him, man.

It's definitely a Spanish beer, it's just produced in the Philippines.

Carlo? No question about it. Hopefully just a matter of time before he's back in this country, hopefully as England manager.

He can 'spot a player' my left nut, like. Fucking Stifler from here could've recommended Cabaye and Ben Arfa. Every time his scouting abilities have actually been put to the test we've signed utter rubbish or players not right for the PL.

Carroll (and others) couldn't score enough to keep us up in 2009, but he took the league by storm after 12 months in the 2nd tier. Didn't Carroll get 3 goals from 5 starts in our relegation season?

One of the first things Rafa did at Liverpool was banish Mehfeee to Charlton. Fuck him.

TCD went fishing and I bit. I apologise. We need to rise above it. TCD, you are a creep.

What's your fucking point you creep?

Krul's almost as thick as Steven Taylor. They don't have the mental capacity to improve. Fuck them both off and don't look back.

Hart tries to take too much responsibility. It's admirable in a sense but the best goalkeepers don't get noticed as much as the armchair pundit would think because they make it look straightforward. They're always two steps ahead of the flight of the ball and subsequently either collect it relatively comfortably or take two steps back and are in position to make a save if needed. Seaman in his prime is the man to watch for this. Buffon too - he's been the best keeper on the planet for a decade but he doesn't let his ego cloud his judgment.

Exactly. To effectively win more games than you lose and draw combined speaks for itself.

It's a friendly a week after the season finished, man. Give over.

Dummett at LB pretty much is his style, though.