Ishmael

want us to absolutely destroy them

get in

haha yesss

parker has a vintage look

bellamy leading with a forearm "NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT AT ALL, AT ALL"

how do you know what the club rules state?

How fucking dare he go on a night out. Especially when he isn't fit. How fucking dare

I really don't care about it, so much so that I'm actually slightly annoyed with the apology article

Faye out of favour at Stoke for attitude problems btw. Something about warming up in flipflops away at Chelsea before putting in a half-arsed showing

I'm surprised to discover that Rozenhal is 6ft3.

xsigh we're going in circles and you're the one doing the steering good night!

Yeah, we should have given him more time to acclimatise to life in the EPL.

Faye was more that decent. Ridiculous that we sold him when we did. He fell out with Keegan. Didn't know that. I wonder why...?

I'm worried.

... who have suffered an extreme sever career changing injury and suffered mismanagement throughout.

Except for his career prospects

For me, Rozehnal needed more time and we shouldn't have sold Faye so quickly too.

Faye was more that decent. Ridiculous that we sold him when we did.

Aye, graft and determination. amongst many other qualities, yeah. Pfff, i consider that an argumental victory tbh. If you don't have graft and determination, which Luque never had, you won't make it. And he hasn't. A lot of potential, i'll happily concede as i trust VI's opinion - but never the mental abilities to make anything of a career after Deportivo and (more importantly) the injury. Unless you have a good manager who is able to get the best of his players and be strong enough to select the strongest players at that But yeah, I agree in regards to players mentality having a significant impact (obviously). Must remember the extent of Luque's injury and the social difficulties that would have surrounded it.

Don't want Shay to stand in the way of Forster's development, otherwise I'd take him back.

Aye, graft and determination. amongst many other qualities, yeah.

Barnes/Rush comparison is genuinely laughable

and yeah, as Ronaldo rightly said the blame isn't being placed solely on Shearer here.

It was shocking to see how much mobility Luque had lost upon his return. Crippled much of his game... much like another player we've been discussing Except the other player had different qualities that allowed him to compete for longer despite his physical limitations.