Ronaldo

Had his arse handed to him by O'Hara, Cuntermole and Rosicky in the last 3 games unfortunately. Comes up with a moment of magic on the ball every game but off it he's not doing enough.

As per usual, the weak links cost us points when it matters.

4 goals in how many starts?

f***ing liability, counted more than 10 times he was out of position, no agression, doesnt attack the ball when its in the air. the kid seems comfortable as a winger, sadly he forgot he's suppose to be playing as left back. Will you please stop peddling this crap every day?

He's unstoppable down that RW. Hope it's his position forever.

Hope Pardew bollocks them for that. Pathetic.

Poor start.

Don't worry, Sky are talking about it too.

It was just as impossible against Wolves and Sunlun, to be fair.

Simpson reminds us every game by making the same mistakes.

Nail on the head this. Totally agree. Was ridiculous hearing him on Goals on Sunday the other week where he was criticising other defenders for backing off and letting the attacker get the cross in. :lol: It would be less hypocritical if Josef Fritzl were to criticise unsupportive parents.

Beye might as well have refused to play against Orient and Leeds that summer. Abysmal attitude. Bassong, to his credit, stuck out like a sore thumb against Leeds. Best player on the park by a mile.

Nail on the head this.

http://archivo.marca.com/ficheros/marca/imagenes/viana_354x215_ES.jpg Eh?

It's a player who essentially drives the team forward. That most certainly isn't either of our two.

Cabaye's not a box-to-box player either. I love the fact folk see a player with a few cultured attributes and attach daft lables. Roy Keane was that type of player, as was Vieira, Gary Speed before he slowed down, Robert Lee, Gerrard, a young Lampard......

I thought I wanted City to win, but I honestly couldn't care less now. Scum at least go for it.

Just drop it. He's no Dan Gosling.

Tiote's bloody useless in the final third. If there's a certain 'type' of CM we could do with it, it's a more refined version of Gosling, who is a box-to-box player.

Cabaye isn't exactly an ideal fit for Tiote either, but we bought him. Our policy seems to be to buy good players and let Pards do what he wants with them. He probably could be. Agree with the rest of it, though. The more I see of them the more I think it just doesn't work and won't under most circumstances. The more you see it, the more Cabaye's being moulded into a ball-chaser snapping at the opposition's heels all the time. Which is clearly a tactical thing imo. They're two good players, there's no reason why they can't work together better. They're an unorthodox box-to-box at the moment, which isn't right. Obviously, they're not helped by the ball being floated over their head all game. We don't need both of them doing that same job: interchanging attack/defense, hassling opposition. Tiote can do it on his own. It was scandalous how many times the ball fell to Tiote outside of the box against the Mackems. It should've been Cabaye cos the former can't shoot for s***. I'd like to see us sign an out-and-out defensive midfielder with Tiote in the terrier/box-to-box role and Cabaye as the attacker. I can see why Pardew is trying to get more out of Cheick, because he's too good on the ball to be restricted to the anchor man role - but he's doing it at the expense of Cabaye's attacking prowess at the moment, and the balance isn't there. The whole team's unbalanced at the moment, tbh. It's the root of our problems imo. Tiote's not a box-to-box player in a million years.

Cabaye isn't exactly an ideal fit for Tiote either, but we bought him. Our policy seems to be to buy good players and let Pards do what he wants with them. He probably could be. Agree with the rest of it, though. The more I see of them the more I think it just doesn't work and won't under most circumstances.

Cabaye isn't exactly an ideal fit for Tiote either, but we bought him. Our policy seems to be to buy good players and let Pards do what he wants with them.

No.