Ronaldo

It'll be easier to condense the play with Bent in the side due to his pace and general threat. But yes, he's far from a solution to the problem, same with Gomis.

The fact that Bent has stayed put suggests to me we're serious about him as plan B and coming here is his first choice.

He's not staying at Lyon, unlikely to go to Marseille. He'll be here barring any daft posturing from us.

What in the fuck?

Goes without saying I love this guy.

Apparently he's 35 now.

What can I say? I expect us to finish 5th once every 10 years or so.

what is this Ron? English.

Not everyone figures it out, dude. I offer help when I can.

Just for clarification I'd rather finish 5th than cup runner-up all day long. But being a minute away from winning it with a recently promoted West Ham side is probably a bigger accomplishment than finishing 5th in the PL with a club who frankly should be challenging for it.

Hell of a compliment coming from someone who posts like he's used Google to translate English into Swahili and back again.

Never said it did.

Runner-up with West Ham as a manager.

What are you on about man? We've put in various offers until we've finally got a fee agreed. We've then agreed terms with the player and the only thing stopping it is complications on Lyons side and agents demands. Unless you've re-written the definition of "at least we tried" than no its nowt like it at all. As per usual we're not interested in buying players for their real value.

Hmmm. If there's one game I'd want Tiote in the side for it'd be this one. Anita just won't contribute.

Colo too.

Marveaux and Hatem are much better at it than Cisse.

I fucking despise him now, like. I still think his portion of the blame on here is too vast and the players get off lightly, but he really has absolutely no business being a PL football manager.

As if we can compete with sovereign states like Southampton and Norwich.

Hatem's best position has always been out wide. Jonas and Obertan ffs.

What if we sign Gomis? Means no place for him or Cisse while a 3rd midfielder who doesn't deserve to be in the starting Xl gets a run out. 4-2-4 might be the best we can do if he signs.

Pardew played Cisse on the wing. Remy will play LW at some point, no doubt about it.

Nowt to do with English football, that. It's to do with us and how utterly shit we are as a club. Yep, plenty of other teams gave them a good game last season, we just bent over for them. People on here and at SJP were praising us for getting battered by them at home. Lots and lots of smashing people on here but I really fucking hate what NUFC fans have become in general. Battered wives thankful for the odd glass of warm milk.

Nowt to do with English football, that. It's to do with us and how utterly shit we are as a club.