Ronaldo

I wouldn't quite say that. He's the best in the world at what he does, his role is just a limited one that will often be rendered pretty obsolete at the absolute top level.

Fight for your place at an ambitious CL team and live in Cheshire or go to Sunderland, be starved of service, battle relegation and live (at best) in Darras Hall. Yeah. Tough one.

Rather have Wickham.

Wonder where Carlo will play him. In theory it allows him to play his 4-3-2-1 with Bale and Rodriguez behind Ronaldo in certain games.

I think it's marvelous.

Steady on.

He surely won't start for them though.

None of this remotely relates to the situation. It's a bit of brainless thing to do, that's all.

Jonas got first team football 2 years longer than it was worth even having him on the bench. The club have been far too kind to him.

Finally get what?

There's no way they're finishing below 5th. They're miles ahead of Spurs.

Riviere might get 10 goals, he might get 3. There's no way we can predict any sort of numbers with any real accuracy, he's an unknown quantity. I find myself often wanting to beat TRon up but he's right here.

You only said something I mentioned a minute or so earlier in the Sunderland thread you stupid fucker

Parrot?

It's madness, that. I'm not sure. Sunderland are in a pretty desperate position, and Borini was their best player for the majority of last season, imo. There isn't likely to be an adjustment period, he has proven he can be a success there, and they are not likely to get anyone better. It would be the equivalent of NUFC overspending for Remy or Everton for Lukaku. Except Borini scored something like 4 PL goals from open play.

What?

Preparations? Are they rolling out a carpet?

3rd choice.

It's madness, that.

Everyone knows he's our best/most exciting player (admittedly I've seen very little of Cabella). Makes it all the worse that he seemingly values his career far less than players who aren't fit to play PL football.

Why would you want Pardew's football to be effective? All that does is prolong the misery. If there was some guarantee of Pardew's imminent dismissal I'd take Carroll in a second, though. He's pretty much exactly what our 11 needs. I don't but last season has proved to me there is no way he'll get sacked basically. There's no way he'd last long under the type of conditions he was subjected to against Cardiff. His position will just become more and more untenable with bad results to the point he'd no longer be physically safe at SJP. He's a coward. Eventually he'd quit.

That he's that out of shape, i really don't see it. All i see is a player who isn't picked because the manager's ego didn't like his failing as a manager being pointed out. Hatem is no different to last season, played well dropped. Given 20 minutes blamed for defeats. Just rank bad treatment. Of course it is. He shouldn't be coming back from summer overweight, though. He's a naturally small framed, wiry lad. He's hurting his chances of going to another club and escaping this awful situation he's in with Pardew. I do agree he shouldn't come back overweight but i am choosing to believe he is telling the truth about it and Pardew and the club who have bullshitted over and over again, are bullshitting again because of an agenda against him, wanting to sell him before his contract runs out. And for Hatem telling Pardew he's fucking useless and has ruined MYM. I agree with all of this. I just think this should make him more determined to convince the footballing world to give him another chance.

Why would you want Pardew's football to be effective? All that does is prolong the misery. If there was some guarantee of Pardew's imminent dismissal I'd take Carroll in a second, though. He's pretty much exactly what our 11 needs.

I think it's more the fact it reveals quite a bit about his attitude to his career. It'll have very little effect on his acceleration general skills but it'll hurt his endurance over the course of a game, certainly.