Ronaldo

Thank fuck we no longer have to watch this useless bastard reduce us to 10 men every week.

You're joking aren't you? Plenty on here rate him.

As if you can bring Shola into this thread, man. Shola's a shocking player who continues to be utter shit and fail to do his job.

Or Pardew secretly finds it funny that he's now gone over a year without a league goal.

33 points not even halfway through the season. A hell of a lot has 'gone our way' this season but that's one hell of a return. Fair play.

I know I've said it before but how on earth is Hughton still in that job?

I'm not sure why it will not work, they should have plenty of movement and defenders hate that. As nemtizz said earlier was pretty good at villa away when we ripped them apart Remy was out wide.

Why would we want to bulk him up? He's just been eating the wrong food.

Have a good one, one and all. x

I wasn't talking about controlling midfield physically, and that wasn't really how prime Speed did it, either. Anyway, fuck it.

Agreed. But tbf, that's not really been asked of Cabaye. Though I think he is underrated as a defender. Controlling midfield has never been asked of our best CM?

Clearly Cronky's done that on Twitter.

Of course he's going to the WC.

Maybe the lights will just go off and when they come back on he'll be standing behind a siting MM.

Still think Speed - Dyer is the most effective CM I've seen in our colours. Absolute quality. You could count on both to contribute defensively and offensively.

The word beast is overused in football. Any black player over 5'6" seems to get called it. Sissoko is one in every true sense of the word, though. Strong, quick, agile, assertive. He makes Tiote look about as athletic as Nicky Butt.

He doesn't but he controlled midfield far better than Cabaye does, and that's what I'd look for first in a CM.

Apparently £2m which comes off the potential purchase price.

Wants to play? Stinking attitude.

Shola muscle. Do me a favour, man. He has no business starting PL football matches.

I'm not a massive fan but through the middle last season he had some great moments. No idea why he's been frozen out but I suspect it has more to do with something off the pitch than what he's done on it.

Helped keep us up with that pass against Stoke.

Analfitano.

It better not be.

From an attacking perspective he's exactly the type of RB you need if you're going to compress the play as we did today. Not a great defender but he's absolutely spot on as an forward-thinking RB. Such a massive improvement on what we had last season.