Ronaldo

Yep. In truth nobody with any sense wants either of them in the starting Xl.

They obviously didn't see us vs West Ham in late 2012.

Steady on Ian, William Wilberforce ensured that we merely employ him Ian longs for a return to the good old days. I've told him time and again that things have moved on. Needs to open his mind a bit.

We were winning games and he was running about, and at the start of the season scoring a few good goals. Those are always effective ingredients to get the mongs onside.

And people still insist there's nothing to worry about.

I understand you wanting to be optimistic but come on, this is just being wilfully dumb. Following me around again, Jermaine? No idea what this is a reference to.

Do we even have a net outlay since Ashley took over in 2007?

I understand you wanting to be optimistic but come on, this is just being wilfully dumb.

How have two people got that so wrong in the same day? You can't really compare last summer to this one, either. We've got to turn a Championship squad into a PL one.

Yep. That awful summer when we all thought Louise Taylor was wrong.

I'm quite aware of that, like. I just struggle to believe for once second he'd choose Swansea because of Clement when Rafa is the alternative. There has to be far more to it.

Because of Clement? Is that a joke?

He went after McClaren brutally more than once. I don't think he was especially well connected.

It's pitiful how far we are behind other clubs, mind. All through self-imposed disadvantages.

Who?

This is from the match thread. Sums it up pretty well:

Anita was definitely on the RW for at least the first half against Fulham, like. He was absolutely atrocious there. Hilariously so.

Going to be a god. Or not.

Such as? Like to hear this.

Pretty much everyone who played with Shearer and have been candid about it said he was only really concerned about his own performance, his own goal return. I'm not being critical of him, as such. A striker can be solely concerned about doing his job and to a certain extent should be. To say he wasn't selfish is being naïve, though. I never bought it as a coincidence that Bobby was sacked and replaced by a manager who'd just tried to buy Shearer, 2 days after he was dropped for Kluivert. That game against Celtic (iirc) in pre-season, too. Shearer was subbed off (to get Kluivert some minutes) after an hour and promptly had a go at Bobby on the touchline. Pretty fucking pathetic, like. He was days away from turning 34 at the time. As Bobby said in his book even the likes of a prime Van Nistelrooj got rested.

Are you saying he doesn't have 3 years left in him during which time he'll be significantly better than our current options? Exactly, stop being daft.

It's perfectly attainable, too. Or should be.

Generally down here in Manchester it's a bit of source of amusement to them. We were the top two clubs, we paid a world record fee in order to leapfrog them and it failed. We never competed with them again.