Ronaldo

With all this talk of Dummet as leftback maybe we'll see Santon pushed onto the wing, looked good whenever he's played there. Sarcasm?

Mike told him to lay off the drink.

Forcing a move to Marseille by liking pictures is AT's scholarly theory.

Wouldn't have thought Cabaye would be a Moyes/Man U type of player, anyway.

We weren't really doing that much from January onwards tbh. Why would we do it with better players in the side?

You've got to protect Colo a little bit by not playing too high a line and partnering him with a dominant header of the ball. One of the reasons Mapou probably won't start with everyone fit.

One too many. Cisse, Remy, Gouffran and Gomis should be fine. Even if Shola (hopefully) gets sold to some shitty League One crap.

He actually played far better after his 'personal problems' were revealed in January.

Here, mate:

I'd be pretty pleased if Remy was the only player we brought in. Easily pleased then. Still one injury away from Jonas or Shola playing in that case.

I'm amazed that Joe Kinnear spent nearly 10 minutes saying mostly the right things. Next up Pardew will be playing with no defensive midfielders.

He's awful at set pieces full stop. Rest of his game (minus the horrible lack of pace) is pretty Rolls Royce, obviously.

Why would a winger help move Pardew's tactics away from Cisse's strengths (further)? Cisse's crying out for crosses, especially of the low variety.

Freddie was supposed to be writing a book. Wish he'd fucking hurry up with it.

He makes a fair point, like. Takes balls of steel to whore the club around for £80m all summer/autumn to small-time telecommunications entrepreneurs then spend a massive £5m in January to secure promotion to the PL.

Shola, Viduka, Harewood, Bent. What have we done to deserve this garbage. You're at it again?

We never do. None that are any good anyway.

Bent was never part of that Spurs side.

Steady on.

We can and we will bud. We're booked up now. Be there 3 weeks on Sunday.

Isn't Capoue a DM? No fucking thanks.

Likewise for Ronaldo's dribbling and pace. Shearer had pace before his injuries too. Yes Ronaldo was a better player but Shearer's hold up play was better than Ronaldo's. I see where HTT is coming from. Moke pace compared to Ronaldo, prime for prime. There's very, very little Shearer did better than Ronaldo and the things he did do better can simply be attributed to Ronaldo having no cause to use such qualities.