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Love him!

He's a bone idle shithouse. Disguised by the fact that our midfield is better than last year. He offers pace and a wide threat that barton couldn't dream of, but he's frustrating as fuck because he could be way better.

I can understand why pardew didn't bring ben arfa on, or santon for that matter. It was a seriously competive game that hung in the balance and he was hoping to just see it out. Which we did - just about. Ben arfa though has to play. He's the guy you build your team around. If it means best / ba / whoever coming off early in the second half against spurs then so be it. We need to get him involved, so he can start influencing things.

How much time would yous give him? Half an hour?

But didn't Enreeq provide cross after cross for Carroll when they were at Newcastle, about a dozen a game according to Phil Thompson.

I'd normally be predicting our downfall, but i honestly think we'll build on the blackburn performance. And our centre midfield will look even better. Somebody qoute this so i can't delete it at half time tomorrow when i look a right tit.

Couldn't care less.

I've slated him but credit where it's due, he's winning me over. At times i think he looks really clumsy on the ball, but bizarrely effective. The turn for his goal against fulham, the turn and shot at qpr, and a similar turn today. They don't look fluid at all but he still beats his man and gets the shot away. He's our first option up front now for me like.

The accuracy of his passing is outstanding. The floated 30 yard diagonal pass to a winger, if it were a Gerrard or a Lampard doing that the lads on match of the day would be batting themselves off.

Somehow, i think this is the best we've played all season.

Get him off, he's fucking shit!

This. I'd give another game or two, hopefully when Ben Arfa gets back Tiote can get back to winning the ball and laying it off sharpish.

As good as Rooney is he'll be absolute dogshit again by February, mark my words. He'll get to 30 goals in all competitions then do nothing for 4 months, ensuring a pathetic European Championships. Shearer had peaks and troughs, like every player, but Rooney has major lows.

I started day dreaming there about s.taylor and r.taylor forming colo / enrique type understanding at the back. Then just thought, naaaah.

Man, that everton video on dailymotion. Some of it is downright obscene! The bit where Colo's motoring up the left wing and Ben Arfa therads the ball through, 1-2 back to Ben Arfa, just shows the quality we have. Ok it's not that deep, but we have some serious talent in our side. Can't think of another centre half in the league that woulkd even attempt that.

Came across as a quite shy and nervous young man. Nothing at all to dislike about the lad or for Steven himself to feel embarrassed about. So he threw the cards on the floor, so what?

As crap as it sounds, i reckon Gameiro would be fucking class in our side. With Ben Arfa behind him and Cabaye / Tiote behind him. jesus wept we'd walk into the Europa League.

Like i said, i'd know roughly where i fitted in and what my value was. You're always going to ask for more than your're worth anyway, again that goes for any line of work. As a player you'll know how much the club rate you, and crucially how much they need you, so why pay somebody to negotiate for you? If the agent is capable of getting an extra 20% it's because the club, for whatever reason, are willing to pay it. So yeah, i'd just aim high and haggle. But like somebody else has said, most footballer are fucking retards.

In days gone by when a footballer needed to supplement his income by opening supermarkets etc, they i can see why they'd need an agent. But today i dont see why they'd need one, unless they were lazy, stupid or both. If i played for a premiership club i'd know roughly where i fit in, in terms of players who were on a similar level to me. And football won't be any different to any other workplace, everybody knows ehat everybody else is earning. So why the hell would i pay somebody 15% (is it?) to go an ask for me?

Prove who wrong? The vast majority on here consider him our number one striker. That's not saying a whole lot though.

Never rated him, but i'll gladly eat my words if he turns out to be decent.

We fucking stink.

Who's this cunt commentating? Jesus wept, he makes Craig Burley seem decent.

Think you're being a bit harsh on Ba. Perhaps. But we don't look like we're ever going to score. Two games into the league, we're finding our feet, i know it could all change within 90 minutes this luchtime. We'll see...

I don't think we'll get a striker in either. 12 months ago we had Shola and Carroll, fair enough Carroll had come on leaps and bounds in the championship but most didn't expect him to get ten goals in the top flight, let alone go for £35m. I just think our board have this belief that somebody else, Best or Ba will step up and do what Carroll did. Which is quite frankly lidicrous, but there we have it.