Ronaldo

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.

Chicharito He's being linked with West Ham and LA Galaxy. If we were prepared to pay the going rate he'd be a genuine possibility and, as the author says, pretty ideal for us as an option. It's a good article overall, though it's obviously supremely annoying having to wade through 8 different pages.

Is that not meant to be funny? Inappropriate either way.

I've never really been a fan of Navas but this sums it up perfectly. Massive upgrade.

What's wrong with people?

Working class club with a large fan base has a vastly inarticulate supporter wanting the greedy owner to sign players. Whatever next?

What sort of player is he? Purely defensive or a bit of a playmaker too?

it's pathetic What is? Not like people are calling him a cunt or owt He's only ever received legitimate criticism for atrocious performances. Disco just absolutely gagging for it to be some sort of sinister anti-belgian agenda, as per. I don't agree with the personal nonsense he received on Twitter or owt but the criticism on here has been justified.

oh and i find this whole thing terribly boring - yeah sure rafa will have ambitions but he's also smart enough to know he's not going to realise them overnight with us or he'd never have agreed to come/stay i can see him being seething if they've agreed to spend £80m on players and he only gets £40m worth in the end, absolutely, but he'll be astute enough to see what's happened to the market and what that will have done to our budget and plans I can tell you now that Rafa will absolutely not tolerate a scrappy relegation battle. He's above that and so should we be, even in our first season back. To avoid that, we need more than one or two players of genuine and proven top level quality.

Virtually all of them when you set them against Rafa's ambitions, to be honest. He must be seething.

Huddersfield didn't make a £32m profit last summer, either. It's just typical reluctance to spend anything like what's needed to make the squad PL strong and balanced.

Pleasantly surprised.

I put zero stock in what Ryder says but if that's true it's absurd and pathetic even by NUFC standards.

It's really shit defending and goalkeeping.

The vast majority know how it is, to be fair. Great talent, generally a very good right winger for us, but it's long since been time to move on.