Ronaldo

If your brain is pretty basic, perhaps.

I don't like DMs. I hate them, in fact.

Or my Fifa 4-2-4: Sissoko Cabaye Ben Arfa Cisse Gomis Remy

Ben Arfa Cabaye Sissoko Gomis Cisse Remy Christ that looks awesome.

I don't see why he couldn't play just off the striker. Collecting the ball, operating the channels and hovering around the edge of the box/arriving late. I just think we'd get overrun. At least if someone like Marveaux was there he'd be able to drop deep into tight spots, get the ball and drive us forward with his dribbling.

Gouffran isn't a second striker, man. Not at all.

Yeah. A lot of us (myself included) had our footballing education during 93-97. It's a tough act to follow for any owner, let alone this unambitious cunt.

I didn't know it was that good, to be honest. That's impressive.

Except penetration. Sissoko, Cabaye, Marveaux is the best we can put out, though it's far from perfect.

That lot will never work with anyone close to SBR as a manager again. They all admit it, too. Fair play.

We'd expect far more from him centrally, though. Obviously we all forgive the fact that he creates very little and doesn't beat players because it's not really his game. Through the middle he'd have to justify his selection through goals, and he doesn't have the strongest track record of doing that.

An isolated £8m signing is sure to put the 19th richest club in the world in debt.

Europe and manageable debt, yeah. It's called ambition.

How anyone can defend our recruitment policy is beyond me. Oh good, we got this one cheap: we'll finish 16th with no debts. Quality.

Pretty accurate, to be fair.

We were in debt during 93-97 too. I'd hate to contemplate a return that shite.

So we do have reasons for signing the player other than he's going cheap yeah? Ok fair enough, I know what you mean, it would be nice for price to be less of an issue than it is. I just hate the whole "oh no this club has bought a more expensive player than we have" thing, as if there's a league table for who has spent the most on a player. Who would you rather have, Ben Arfa at £5.75m or Stewart Downing at £20m? Price is always the most important factor. Balance of Price and Ability is, which is what we do and we do it well. Can't disagree with that. So well in fact we've finished in the top half once since 2006. New transfer system has only been in place since we went down. We've done very well in terms of transfers since then, not their fault the managers a loon. No, not one bit. At all. Not their fault there's one goalscorer in the squad either.

Oh so we look for players that add to the quality of the squad, who offer potential resale value and who are within our financial means. Sounds more realistic than "cheap" players, cos we'd have just gone out and landed Can't Control... Within our financial means. We're the 19th richest club in the world being consistently outspent by clubs who get half our attendances and you dare to actually to defend this bollocks? No business supporting NUFC whatsoever.

So we do have reasons for signing the player other than he's going cheap yeah? Ok fair enough, I know what you mean, it would be nice for price to be less of an issue than it is. I just hate the whole "oh no this club has bought a more expensive player than we have" thing, as if there's a league table for who has spent the most on a player. Who would you rather have, Ben Arfa at £5.75m or Stewart Downing at £20m? Price is always the most important factor. Balance of Price and Ability is, which is what we do and we do it well. Can't disagree with that. So well in fact we've finished in the top half once since 2006.

So we do have reasons for signing the player other than he's going cheap yeah? Ok fair enough, I know what you mean, it would be nice for price to be less of an issue than it is. I just hate the whole "oh no this club has bought a more expensive player than we have" thing, as if there's a league table for who has spent the most on a player. Who would you rather have, Ben Arfa at £5.75m or Stewart Downing at £20m? Price is always the most important factor.

With no resale value and no real use to the squad other than being better than Shola.

Oh no I had my heart set on an expensive player this summer as well, don't care who it is as long as he's expensive Well, it would be nice to target a player for reasons other than he's going cheap.

Surely Kinnear's not going to be allowed to talk about money, is he? Why not? He is the richest man on the planet... Don't forget, 'Mike's lost a billion pounds' in the recession.

While what you put makes sense, just think about who our manager is. Shola RW, Cisse RW, hoofball to Cisse etc. Is it so far fetched ?. I know, dude. I'm holding onto the fact that when Ba left and Gouffran/Sissoko came in we used far less hoofball.

No, in a word.