Ronaldo

Trebled his 20k wages IIRC. No wonder he doesn't want to go anywhere. £60K for Scott Sinclair, man.

Sometimes strikers just play to their own strengths and bypass the necessity to form a cohesive partnership (see Shearer and Ferdinand). Before anyone brings it up, Ba and Cisse didn't work mainly because the service (ie scraps) only suited one of them.

How much is he on at Cit-eh?

This I do agree with.

For me, Cisse is easily a 1 in 2 striker in between HBA and Remy with Sissoko just behind. He'll never get dropped unless his leg's hanging off.

Gomis would lose that battle big time from what I've heard and looking at his record, like. Just saying.

It would cost around £300,000 to accomplish that, though.

Shearer; Gascoigne, Beardsley, Brendan Foster, Harmison, Spedding, Collingwood, Chris Tomlinson without really thinking. So 2 cricketers and a long jumper have emerged in the last 20 years. It's pretty pathetic.

Wanting our rivals for 10th to do well?

That and the fact Ranger had no Premier League talent whatsoever. He had the talent all right. He didn't have the application. The minute he got that contract, he decided he didn't have to try any more. Why didn't he ever look like scoring prior to the contract then? His talent was always vastly overstated on here.

This startling insight is courtesy of a chap that wants a nonscoring 33-year-old striker out of favour at Birmingham City back here, by the way.

Quality.

Plenty does for me, he's a more imposing physical presence for a start. In France he is, says very little about how he'll do over here. He's also apparently a lot slower and less of a goal threat.

Really wish I knew more about Gomis but nothing I've heard about him convinces me he'd be a better option than Bent.

Worth fuck all dude. That repugnant little prick said we weren't interested in Remy.

That and the fact Ranger had no Premier League talent whatsoever.

At his best he's got so much more than just a physical advantage. Don't get me wrong, he's a fucking specimen, but he's actually a very good, technical, footballer on his day. He's an absolute anomaly where our recent homegrown talent is concerned. If he'd been born shorter, smaller and with less explosiveness he'd be in League One with the rest of the rubbish from our youth setup.

Not saying that is the facts but that does make sense and he says he's on 80k a week And Downing's father's going around saying he's coming here, allegedly.

Dunno where thats from, last two seasons in the league he's got: 71 games 3 goals 5 assists Pretty much identical to Downing. How many assists does Downing have in his last 50 games? I bet it's more than zero. Are you sure? Because that would mean Gutierrez got 5 assists in 21 games and then 0 in the following 50. Just checked out of curiosity. It's actually 49 games for us, 51 in total.

I realise that. Not in recent decades, though.

Marv isn't a winger. But yes, he's a better player than Downing and I wouldn't ever advocate that displacement.

Dunno where thats from, last two seasons in the league he's got: 71 games 3 goals 5 assists Pretty much identical to Downing. How many assists does Downing have in his last 50 games? I bet it's more than zero.

I don't like Downing but i'm all in favour for anything that sees Jonas back off to play beach football.

Jonas has 1 goal and 0 assists in his last 50 games, btw

There was a story on here the other day (Kint maybe?) about Downing's dad telling said poster's mate he was signing for us.