Ronaldo

Depends. If Mapou's fee was appearance related there's a chance we break even on him.

:thup: Fucking Zidane. man. Great player but it's embarrassing how folk hype him.

I don't think that's a club thing, that's a manager thing. Pardew in this case just completely ignores Colo's flaws, yet highlights those of others which are not as bad. Managers have favourites, managers like Mourinho/Ferguson/Pep do, thing with them though is they win things giving them the right to do it, and the ammo to back it up. Pardew on the other hand has a string of defeats as his ammo, the idiot. It goes way further than Pardew, this insistence on maximising assets and financial resources to the team's detriment.

I think one of the reasons the club are so reluctant to spent money on matured players is the fact we bought Coloccini at 26/27 and nobody has ever offered money for him, even when he was playing well. Consequently we've just had to persevere and absolutely run him into the ground while players with potential like MYM get marginalised.

At this point Colo'd probably be more use to us from Argentina, tbh.

Our defence would only be a decent left back away from being fairly solid. As it stands it looks like Janmaat will be our only quality defender. Don't agree with that, like. Defence is all about the CB pairing and hilariously our best one is Mapou and Willo.

Bolton you say? What?

Haven't you got water to fetch, Flip? Stop polluting the forum with needless analysis of posters, man. Nobody cares.

Sadly we can't 'afford' Shawcross. He's streets ahead of Caulker, mind.

I'll never get why popular players get touted as future bosses like they automatically become competent football managers when they retire.

Could be worse, man. I got back from 3 weeks in Florida on a Monday morning at 8AM once and had to be in work for 10AM same day, in Bolton.

What?

The dynamic of the PL is as different from typical WC football as it gets. I couldn't care less, frankly.

Why does working hard get equated to putting tackles in?

Aye, we still need a ST, CB and RB at a minimum, even discounting the managerial issues.

Rio and him had a bet to see who could look more ridiculous in formal wear.

Triggs, you need to stop being so sensitive about Messi, man.

Group stages were great, knockouts pretty disappointing. Good WC overall.

He's not 35, he'll play at other WCs before his career is done. Given his decline in the last 2 years it'd be foolish to assume we'll see anything even shadowing his best in 4 years time.

Riviere replacing Remy. Sake.

Nothing there to disagree with. Not just the past decade mind. Time we got off this We won the war and one Bomber Harris shit and note what they actually do and maybe learn from them. Fuck off. TWO WORLD WARS AND ONE WORLD CUP 111!!!11!!! 'One World Cup And Two World Wars' is how the song goes, like. It isn't. Sima had it spot on. We're thinking of two different songs, then.

That's a tad different, like. Not that I disagree with the overall point at hand about Messi.

Nothing there to disagree with. Not just the past decade mind. Time we got off this We won the war and one Bomber Harris shit and note what they actually do and maybe learn from them. Fuck off. TWO WORLD WARS AND ONE WORLD CUP 111!!!11!!! 'One World Cup And Two World Wars' is how the song goes, like.

I need a break from football, like. Enough's enough.