Ronaldo

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.

Carroll was born with the make-up for tremendous physical advantages which not even our 'academy' could negate.

In an ideal world, yeah. Not just for the sake of it though, like signing replacing Cabaye with McCarthy, for example. Nobody suggested doing it just for the sake. If we have options, and of course we do, I'd rather we didn't fill the remaing gaps in our squad with players with no PL education/experience.

The North East just doesn't seem to produce good sportsmen across the board. I think it's partially a problem with mentality.

I would like to have at least 3 English/Scottish players in our first 11. That said, value for money will always come first with this lot so it's pretty pointless to even debate it. If Cabaye gets sold off, and unfortunately he most certainly will in the next 18 months, I'd like to see his replacement be a Brit. McCarthy would be great.

He's also playing against Preston. I don't remember Jonas doing anything like that against Preston.

Like Ba would take a cut in pay to come back here, man. Dream on and forget about the selfish, goal-bonused mercenary cunt.