Ronaldo

I'm looking forward to it, just not where NUFC is concerned.

The first one is fucking abject.

Have to agree with you there, bored with the lot of it and couldn't give a shite. Yeah, Cisse's my favourite and frankly the thought of him leaving doesn't bother me massively. Guess this is what it feels like to support a club that has to take two steps back either side of a step forward in the name of being sensible.

Aye, right. 22 and is a regular starter for one of the top clubs in the country who he's played well for all season. No chance he'll ever be much good.

Henderson's a good player. Could easily turn out to be worth £15m fwiw.

Darren Bent above the budget of one of the richest clubs in world football.

He's a different colour. Surely they were just taking the piss too?

As if teams haven't won the WC with far worse players than Trevor Sinclair and Danny Mills.

When the alternatives are Tiote and Anita there really isn't an alternative, as tidy as the latter generally is.

That 3 is easily the best we can put out.

The ones you've mentioned that I haven't disagreed with, Carrick especially.

Brilliant quotes from Suarez basically saying he cannot stay at Liverpool.

Very good passer, beautiful, but never a playmaker.

The best attacking midfielder the PL's ever seen. Not a playmaker at all.

Modric can drive a team forward, that's the difference.

That's exactly how I see him. Problem is, central playmakers rarely work in this league.

Not if Colo isn't replaced.

Who said he was creative? I've just said the exact opposite. He just isn't anything approaching a defensive midfielder.

I think he is, he's certainly not a play off the main striker like we had him doing on a regular basis, or a winger. Box to box midfielder/defensive midfielder. He certainly isn't our creative midfielder that's for sure. I don't think his end product is much to worry about in the slightest. Defensive midfielder, man. Come on.

Cabaye is one of our slowest players by far.

Oh good, one midfielder making runs forward in a 4-3-3. That's a big reason why we don't score goals.

Who's a defensive midfielder, Sissoko? Rubbish.

That was the puzzler for me, as I said in another thread his numbers are pretty much in line with say, Yaya Touré's, even a bit better. He's not going to be Frank Lampard but his end product is just fine. He isn't really creative is what the scout is getting at. Obviously he makes thinks happen because of his running and presence.

I said Cabaye wasn't mobile enough a year and got exactly this reponse. He may cover very good distance but he's static on the ball, can't dribble, rarely makes the type of Sissoko runs we need to support the striker and is generally all used up by 70 minutes. Lovely footballer in a sense but I do think the PL isn't the least suited to him out of the big 4 leagues.