Ronaldo

If Cabaye was so stifled by Pardew he wouldn't have so many good things to say about him. He let him do what he wants so i'm not that surprised, doesn't mean it was right though. Depends if we think Cabaye has any ambition. Top players don't want to work with coaches who don't improve them.

With respect I'd disagree. They're two different players. If argue that Cabaye was a hell of lot more capable of providing a killer ball or a goal than Carrick. Carrick is consistent in breaking up play and putting the ball to a more creative player but Cabaye is definitely more of an attacking force. I'd argue with anyone who thinks Carrick "controlled" a game. He may have disrupted another teams attack but he's never pulled the strings like Cabaye. Which is why he'll finish up with the far better career. Carrrick's been 'pulling the strings' in PL games for a decade.

If Cabaye was so stifled by Pardew he wouldn't have so many good things to say about him.

Shevchenko all over again.

That's true. He played his best football in the final months of his time here in an advanced role. As a midfielder he never really controlled the game the way the likes of Carrick do.

He'll be 30 this time next year and his best option appears to be Crystal Palace.

Strange how his career's turned out, like. I never would've had him down for top class but it's been a real let down when you consider how good his right foot is.

The PL needs Mick McCarthy, man. Such a legend.

I'm hoping he hasn't just checked Wikipedia, discovered that Alsoran, Sammy and perennially injured Aarons all outscored Cabella last season and laughed his head off.

To be fair he might be really talented at pool or darts or something like that. He'd have to kneel down to play both.

Yep.

He's nearly 40, what do you expect?

The fact Pearson had them playing far greater than the sum of their parts.

He's making it up, man.

Surely he's no longer an NUFC player as of Wednesday?

He's more suited to CB but he's still easily the best LB we have from a defensive perspective.

Yep. Generally gets more undeserved stick than the rest of them combined, though.

Should've been Scholes behind and Dyer in a 3-man midfield.

True. Dyer pissed all over him. Though he'd been injured badly on the last day on the season against Southampton courtesy of El Khalej's horror challenge.

I wasn't a Sinclair fan, not least because he threw his toys out of the pram when not selected originally, but he came into the squad when someone had to pull out, may have been Gerrard? I'd have played Dyer personally ahead of him. Danni Mer-fee.

Sinclair was decent. Mills was Gary Neville's replacement. Not a great one but not a terrible player either.

I don't. He only played in one World Cup, didn't perform well and was still England's best striker 4 years later on the back of a very good PL season with us. Heskey belonged nowhere near an England starting Xl.

I still don't understand his decision not to play for us at that World Cup.

Anyone who thinks Tiote is vaguely competent at protecting the defence is thick as fuck, like. He's shit, and this should've been blatantly obvious for some time. Fortunately I think our manager already knows it.