Ronaldo

I believe that, tbh. My dad's was on a flight with him in 2009. Said he never stopped talking about NUFC to a randomer next to him the entire time.

Kinnear said he was 6'2". Turns out this guy's 5'11". Definitely him then.

Thankfully they can't really afford to.

I don't think he will be, he'll still be heavily involved throughout the season but he's by no means a gaurenteed starter. Remy takes his place on the left wing and he's not good enough to play in the middle with the standard of players we currently have. So you think we'll be playing 4-3-3 with Remy and HBA either side of Cisse? I hope you're right like, but imo it'll most likely be Remy & Cisse up top with Ben Arfa and Jonas holding the hands of Debuchy and Santon. For pretty much the entirety of last season the formation/team we should have played seemed obvious to the fans (whether we were right or wrong) but Pardew saw it a completely different way, unless he's genuinely changed as a manager I cannot see why this season would be any different? You'd think Sissoko, Cabaye and Tiote will all play.

Shocking in the first half season after a good start in his first couple of games.

Skirge you really need to think twice every time you post.

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.