Ronaldo

Shelvey off a striker? You're a having a laugh with that one. He has nothing like the mobility to play that role.

Same as Ryder, '10 things we have learned from Rafa's interview' article, followed by '10 things we have learnt from the 10 things we have learnt article'. Sounds like neither of you know who Craig Hope is, tbh. Rafa's quotes tonight pretty much prove he's been right every step of the way.

Surely that ties in with our persistent reluctance to give decent wages and contract lengths to players over 30, though?

To get players of Bellamy or Robert's class now we'd absolutely have to smash our transfer record, and you know it.

In Spain, the CL, and there were more than flashes of his ability in his debut against Man U. We bought a brilliant player, he just suffered an injury and was never the same.

Anyone who saw Luque before his injury against Fulham knows how good he was.

He was replacing pretty much the worst starter in our PL history, to be fair.

Nah, Spurs game doesn't mean anything. We'll still have loads of time to sign players after that. Can't wait for deadline day.

We've signed 2 players with virtually no experience of top level football and another who did OK in Spain. Stop exaggerating. The summer's been an abject failure so far. Juxtaposition of those two sentences is interesting. Was literally thinking that :lol: You might want to start literally thinking about how poor we often looked in the second half of last season, then. While you're at it start thinking about the pace and quality disparity of the two leagues. At this point I'd expect us to have something like the foundations of a PL side to put out. We absolute cannot find a PL Xl from the mess of a squad we have right now. Not even close. Getting better sad sack Says who?

We've signed 2 players with virtually no experience of top level football and another who did OK in Spain. Stop exaggerating. The summer's been an abject failure so far. Juxtaposition of those two sentences is interesting. Was literally thinking that :lol: You might want to start literally thinking about how poor we often looked in the second half of last season, then. While you're at it start thinking about the pace and quality disparity of the two leagues. At this point I'd expect us to have something like the foundations of a PL side to put out. We absolute cannot find a PL Xl from the mess of a squad we have right now. Not even close.

We've signed 2 players with virtually no experience of top level football and another who did OK in Spain. Stop exaggerating. The summer's been an abject failure so far.

I know.

Just think about how poor we looked when Gayle wasn't fit to score the goals for us to get the upper hand in games. 11th is a pipe dream right now.

Two posters, admittedly.

Starting an inexperienced kid in the PL in the position that requires experience above all else. Honestly, it offends me how thick people can be at times, mind.

I say that's a ridiculous suggestion. On loan to a Championship club who'll start him would be perfect.

Yep. Rafa'a ruthless but there's got to be more to it than his awful kicking.

It was absolutely falling apart at the seams when I went in 2004 to the point looking back I'm surprised it was UEFA approved or whatever. But wow, it looked so fucking good. Set against the sunset it's one of my favourite first hand images as a football fan.

I meant re. the initial post, like. Every one of us should be worried at this point.

Should have been pretty obvious I was being sarcastic. Apologies that it wasn't.

Well the manager is not chilling about it that's for sure

Vile human, signing for a vile club. Yep.

Not in 2017 he's not. Well, Mitrovic/Perez obvs. He's injury prone, uninterested and firmly on the way down. Total wrong fit.

For what reason?

Chill. We've got like a week till it's even August.