Ronaldo

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.

That's it, basically. If you looked at him as a 21-year-old, especially after he scored that wonder goal for Ipswich, you'd think with experience and maturation he'd be brilliant, but his brain of mush ruined it.

I'll praise any player I dislike if they've had a good game. I might have even said something vaguely positive about Riviere at some point.

He got dropped for the final three key games for Rob Elliot. That tells you everything you need to know. Westwood was and is the best by far.

http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,93852.msg4321122.html#msg4321122 http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,92042.msg3619327.html#msg3619327 You fucking loser. And the other 100 posts where he should be nowhere near the side.

When? 11-12. Nothing sensational of course, but effective. Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought he made only a dozen or so sporadic starts that season.

When?

Darlow was the best keeper in the championship last season His stats are very good played 34, conceded 32. 34 games and 13 clean sheets. Not many better according to the stats http://www.foxsports.com/soccer/stats?competition=23&season=20160&category=GOALKEEPING&pos=0&team=0&sort=6&sortOrder=1 This is a sarcastic post, right? Sarcastic stats ?................... are you for real ? More the fact they support the ridiculous suggestion that he was the best keeper in the league.

James Perch, man. Come on.

Perch was a better player? Alan Smith was roughly the same level? I don't think much of Anita as a midfielder but the above is nonsense, like.

Darlow was the best keeper in the championship last season His stats are very good played 34, conceded 32. 34 games and 13 clean sheets. Not many better according to the stats http://www.foxsports.com/soccer/stats?competition=23&season=20160&category=GOALKEEPING&pos=0&team=0&sort=6&sortOrder=1 This is a sarcastic post, right?

Darlow was the best keeper in the championship last season

Well that's just weird, to be fair. I'll remember his hilarious performances on the right wing against Fulham last August.