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They were nothing alike. Even though Shearer had pace in his younger days, it was nothing compared to the blistering pace that Ronaldo possessed. I've never seen a player being able to dribble with the ball at such pace. I've seen clips of Shearer doing exactly the same thing for Blackburn and scoring, maybe Ronaldo might have been quicker, but did Shearer have the ability to do the same? Yes. Did Shearer ever get the ball from the half way line, dribble past 6 people and then bury it? Did he s****. Did Ronaldo ever hit a ball into the top corner from miles out like Shearer did against Chelsea? The point of my post was more a comparison of the twos phenomenal talents, I don't really care about who was better, everyone is entitled to their opinion. I'm certainly not arsed or petty enough to ring my Dad to dig out the 92/93 goals video where Shearer dribbles half the length of the field and scores. Shearer would get the edge in my eyes because he was my hero growing up, but I don't care if other people disagree. I just find it false to call Ronaldo several levels above or in a different league to Shearer. Especially since Shearer in his prime was being courted by Man U and clubs across Europe at around the same time Ronaldo was signing for Inter Milan. Aye, he did actually. Cool. Like I said, I really don't care enough to get into a heated debate, both their abilities followed similar, both were astounding young players, suffered serious injuries and lost a step over time but managed to adapt their game to continue to score on a regular basis. Only difference for me is that Ronaldo played for some of the best teams in Europe and one of the best international teams of his day. Whereas Shearer played for a England side that was pretty average and a Newcastle side that had brief spells at the top but were largely midtable.

They were nothing alike. Even though Shearer had pace in his younger days, it was nothing compared to the blistering pace that Ronaldo possessed. I've never seen a player being able to dribble with the ball at such pace. I've seen clips of Shearer doing exactly the same thing for Blackburn and scoring, maybe Ronaldo might have been quicker, but did Shearer have the ability to do the same? Yes. Did Shearer ever get the ball from the half way line, dribble past 6 people and then bury it? Did he s****. Did Ronaldo ever hit a ball into the top corner from miles out like Shearer did against Chelsea? The point of my post was more a comparison of the twos phenomenal talents, I don't really care about who was better, everyone is entitled to their opinion. I'm certainly not arsed or petty enough to ring my Dad to dig out the 92/93 goals video where Shearer dribbles half the length of the field and scores. Shearer would get the edge in my eyes because he was my hero growing up, but I don't care if other people disagree. I just find it false to call Ronaldo several levels above or in a different league to Shearer. Especially since Shearer in his prime was being courted by Man U and clubs across Europe at around the same time Ronaldo was signing for Inter Milan.

They were nothing alike. Even though Shearer had pace in his younger days, it was nothing compared to the blistering pace that Ronaldo possessed. I've never seen a player being able to dribble with the ball at such pace. I've seen clips of Shearer doing exactly the same thing for Blackburn and scoring, maybe Ronaldo might have been quicker, but did Shearer have the ability to do the same? Yes.

Shearer 409 goals in 796 appearances (including internationals) 0.51 goals per game Ronaldo 420 goals in 620 appearances (including internationals) 0.67 goals per game So yes, Ronaldo's strike rate is better, but you have to take into account that a lot of those goals came playing for a top side in the Brazilian league and that Ronaldo played in 97 international games in comparison to Shearer's 63. Both suffered serious knee injuries in the mid-late nineties and lost a yard of pace meaning that they had to adapt their game and both pulled it off pretty damn well. There is no basis to say that Shearer wouldn't have just as well playing in the teams that Ronaldo did. Shearer and Ronaldo in their youth were both very similar players, people seem to forget that whilst at Southampton, Blackburn and in his first season at Newcastle Shearer actually had pace, and was a scarily good player because of it. The two players finishing abilities are very comparable, both were deadly in front of goal but Ronaldo had the extra touch of flair about how he did it, that does not make him a better finisher than Shearer by any means, just different styles. Ronaldo had more flair about his play but Shearer was better in the air. Therefore to call Ronaldo several levels above Shearer as a finisher and as a footballer is false in my eyes, especially when you take into account Shearer's magnificent ability to cross a ball and hit one hell of a free kick. As Disco says Shearer's reputation on the worldwide stage suffers from the fact he never played abroad, or for Manchester United, he'd be spoken of as one of the world's greatest if he had there is no doubt in my mind. Ronaldo's contribution to world football is one of the greatest ever and will never be forgotten, however, Shearer's longevity and goalscoring ability in a team that towards the end of his career was lagging in mid table, should never be undermined. The two are my favourite strikers of all time and I think tit for tat arguments about who was better are pointless.

Fantastic player, favourite centre forward after Shearer.

Not really. We've scored plenty without Carroll. The lack of any foresight to sign a striker in the summer, is costing us. Only sporadic though, we've only scored more than once twice without him in 7 games. Fair enough, still everyone except those in charge could see that we needed another striker in the summer, and we've dropped points because of their idiocy. Hopefully Ireland and Ben Arfa will provide more goals from midfield when they return. True, it's just frustrating as a good finisher we would be well up the upper half of the table. As only against Fulham we've played badly in the league this year. Aye. All ifs and buts though, a bit more composure against the Mackems and Spurs and we'd be on 36 points and pretty much safe imo. Still in the grand scheme of things and given events off the pitch we've done very well.

Huge game. Howay!

Not really. We've scored plenty without Carroll. The lack of any foresight to sign a striker in the summer, is costing us. Only sporadic though, we've only scored more than once twice without him in 7 games. Fair enough, still everyone except those in charge could see that we needed another striker in the summer, and we've dropped points because of their idiocy. Hopefully Ireland and Ben Arfa will provide more goals from midfield when they return.

Not really. We've scored plenty without Carroll. The lack of any foresight to sign a striker in the summer, is costing us.

We havent moved away from them since this morning, still a 5 point gap 6 effectively with goal difference, win on Tuesday and its 8 effectively 9. We're not there yet, but as people have said we're not far off.

Bit of a buffer starting to develop between us and the bottom four sides. Our superior goal difference is massive. Really should have beaten them today like, Shola can't come back quick enough, but we have twelve games left and a lot of them are against teams in the bottom half. A win on Tuesday would put us a magnificent position.

HTL!

Was pretty bad like. Europe was fun though Man I wish they still ran the intertoto, I miss European games.

Chopra was sold to Cardiff in the summer.

When you look at it, that team was never gonna do anything in the league so overall we didn't actually do that bad FA Premier League 13th FA Cup Third round Carling Cup Quarter-finals Intertoto Cup Winners UEFA Cup Round of 16

Just read up on that 2006-07 season. I remember us being turboshit in the league but pretty good in Europe. Martins got 17 goals in all comps that year, Sibierski 8, Shola 5 (constantly injured), even Luque got 2 in Europe. Pretty decent return from our strikeforce. I will never not be annoyed when thinking about the AZ Alkmaar game though. Fucking Louis Van Gaal, think Dyer hit the post when through on goal to win it for us as well. Useless cunt.

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Realisticallly we'll probably sign Elmander and Bothroyd (unless Cardiff go up) on frees. Ship Xisco back to Depor for a cut price fee, all about profit with this regime. Would love to see us try and bring back Bellamy but I can't see that happening.

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We've been linked with a move for Ilan by some twat agent on twitter.

Physioroom says 16th Feb.

Good stuff For all his faults Shola is the best we've got at the minute and if he get back earlier and chip in with the goals that consolidate our PL status it'll be worth it.

Beckham not fit to wear the shirt He's not worthy of a place anymore but Beckham has put England on his back and carried them to a win on countless occasions. Rooney, well that's just daft, brilliant player that had fuck all support in the World Cup. Terry and Rio are in decline but who else, apart from Cahill, do England have that is any better? Lampard and Gerrard are still good enough to have a place in the squad, but its questionable at best whether they should be starting. Gerrard has the edge over Lampard. The rest, yes I agree. I'd pick Hart Simpson Terry Cahill Cole Lennon Wilshere Barton Johnson Carroll Rooney Bench Foster Rio Lescott Walcott Gerrard Lampard Bent

Sorry neesy, you're going to be coming 2nd again this year