Ronaldo

It's August in 2 days and you'll find people who are 'happy' with our transfer business so far.

Everyone except people with lives.

Indeed.

Loads of respect for you as a poster but this is utter nonsense.

Fair enough.

Steady on, like. We were poor but it was nothing compared to losing 0-6 at home to them 4 years ago and the plethora of other pathetic beyond words displays during Pardew's tenure.

Only you could get that so spectacularly backwards.

People still blaming him for that daft goal against Bristol City?

Would had won the league imo if KK hadn't quit. Not a chance. Dalglish did well that season points wise. For us to accumulate a further 7 we'd have had to be ridiculously good. Better than we ever were, to be honest. It took very good results at OT and Highbury to sneak 2nd.

Nolan was a wreck of an athlete and at best a mediocre footballer. He relentlessly scored goals when afforded space, though. You can't compare the two. Totally different strengths.

Striker > Keeper > AM. I'm quite surprised so many posters are relatively relaxed about the keeping situation, like. We know how poor Elliot is and Darlow was often a liability in the Championship. A good keeper like Reina would do so much more than help stop us conceding daft goals.

Shelvey and Hayden mentioned as possible no.10s on the same page? Really, there's desperation but that's just utter insanity. We either all join in mass prayer for de Jong's health or just buy a fucking no.10.

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.