Ronaldo

What the hell has that got to do with his portion of the blame? There's no chain of causation to be broken here. He should've done better, he didn't, we conceded.

He was also poor for the goal we conceded. Again.

You'd think people would learn, like. Golf shoes if you're gonna run onto the pitch.

Lots of improvement needed but he's already preferable to Steven Taylor, which I'm grateful for.

Think it's time for him to start ahead of Perez, like.

Yeah that was gonna happen.

Defoe just had to turn up to score, man. More nous in his penis than the shit we're relying on for goals.

Dreamt that we lost 4-0. 3 goals late on, all scrappy as fuck.

Yeah, I'm sure they will if they go down, like. It would likely mean they'd have won a maximum of 1 game from their last 21.

It's a contributing factor to Spain's success, and it obviously includes youth development. Young players learn far too little from reserve/U-21 fixtures. They need to be playing against men sooner, learning to play at that pace and intensity.

Of course the posters disparaging the idea are the same ones who hate to see the national side do well anyway.

Amazing scenes here I think you need to be a tad more subtle than that, like.

I'm not so sure. I think it's time we adopted the Spanish model of B teams competing against first teams in the lower leagues and this is obviously a step in that direction. Allows the bigger clubs a bit of an advantage, unfortunately, but it's certainly the best thing for the international setup and probably the domestic aspect of our game in the long run.

Everton would be right down there without Lukaku, like.

Well that goes without saying. But if we go down we never will see his best. No way he'll play Championship football - he'll be wetting the bed every other night up against those defenders.

His best hasnt happened yet as most players dont usually peak at 21.. Im guessing you have not heard of Youri Tielemans who is sought after by most of Europes top clubs, Dennis Praet another who will move on to a top club. The same shitty league produced Vincent Kompany and Romalu Lukaku who both played for Anderlecht. Stupid hour again, and again, and again......

The problem is, his 'best' happened in a league in which plenty of strikers not fit for PL football score goals. Like Mbemba he's got lots of potential but the money spent on him should've been invested in a known quantity given both the importance and reliance on improving those areas of the team.

Doesn't matter, does it? He'll still score regardless.

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Definitely how I'd sum up our experience with them in'04.

Chopping and changing like your wording, no doubt.

Swansea safe then.

Anyone who reckoned Luuk de Jong couldn't finish when he was at NUFC should look at his FCT and PSV videos. Do Anderlecht play in the EPL? He did score against Arsenal for Anderlecht in the Champions League.. Shola scored against Barcelona in the Champions League. You can't use one goal to support any point of view, really.

All 3 of them?