TRon Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 We should sell him in the summer, but I wouldn't sell him now (unless we have Saudi money). I wouldn't mind keeping him, but as a back up, and I'm not sure he'd be happy with being a squad player. But he's really not good enough if we do get serious money to spend in the summer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHoob Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Erm, selling Richie would be disastrous. Aye, mentalists. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Even if we get taken over, I wouldn't want to sell him right now as he'd be a handy squad player to have. Mind I don't rate him at all! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Lol. Matt Ritchie is comfortably in our top 5 players. Our fans can be right weirdos. Thats actually a very good question. Who would people say are our 5 best players? I'd go with: Merino, Lascelles, Shelvey, Ritchie, Atsu. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinitely Content Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Lol. Matt Ritchie is comfortably in our top 5 players. Our fans can be right weirdos. Thats actually a very good question. Who would people say are our 5 best players? I'd go with: Merino, Lascelles, Shelvey, Ritchie, Atsu. Exactly the same for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Lascelles, Merino, Gayle, Atsu and Murphy in that order. Certainly our most important players anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Lol. Matt Ritchie is comfortably in our top 5 players. Our fans can be right weirdos. Thats actually a very good question. Who would people say are our 5 best players? I'd go with: Merino, Lascelles, Shelvey, Ritchie, Atsu. Tells you everything when they are considered our best players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinitely Content Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Gayle & Murphy better than Ritchie & Shelvey Fair enough, fair enough. Entitled to your opinion ofc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLiaaamx Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Ritchie slows us down far too much and contributes nowt in general play. How good can you be on set pieces alone? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Gayle & Murphy better than Ritchie & Shelvey Fair enough, fair enough. Entitled to your opinion ofc. Murphy is very raw, but you can see the potential in him to become our best player. Gayle I just don't really like as a player tbh, and considering his play style doesn't really contribute to the overall team, and he is only there to put the ball in the back of the net, he hasn't done it enough this season for me, and has even missed a fair few chances that he should have scored. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Gayle & Murphy better than Ritchie & Shelvey Fair enough, fair enough. Entitled to your opinion ofc. Gayle scores us goals, Ritchie and Shelvey don't and while Ritchie does create them (mainly from set pieces) he could never do what Murphy did to set up Perez for our winner against Stoke. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ritchie Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 All this grief I'm getting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinitely Content Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Ritchie slows us down far too much and contributes nowt in general play. How good can you be on set pieces alone? That's just not true though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Anyway it should never be about our best players, it should be about our important players that make the team tick that much better or gives us what we need. I'd have the 5 I chose over any of the others first in my starting 11. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinitely Content Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 All this grief I'm getting. #justice4matt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 All this grief I'm getting. Deserve it for your defence of Pardew! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altamullan Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 All this grief I'm getting. I think you’re a cracking player mate. Keep yer chin up http://www.beerleagueblog.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Tortise-Beats-Hare.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Anyway it should never be about our best players, it should be about our important players that make the team tick that much better or gives us what we need. I'd have the 5 I chose over any of the others first in my starting 11. Ofcourse, thats true In terms of most important players, i'd probably go: Lascelles, Shelvey, Merino, Atsu, Yedlin in that order. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinitely Content Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Gayle & Murphy better than Ritchie & Shelvey Fair enough, fair enough. Entitled to your opinion ofc. Murphy is very raw, but you can see the potential in him to become our best player. Gayle I just don't really like as a player tbh, and considering his play style doesn't really contribute to the overall team, and he is only there to put the ball in the back of the net, he hasn't done it enough this season for me, and has even missed a fair few chances that he should have scored. Ritchie is the punching bag of the week for some bizarre reason. He's a very good player and we would probably be in the bottom 3 without his contribution this season. Enough said really. As for Gayle, he's okay. Nothing more. Our best performance from a striker all season was from Perez last game, despite having not played in that position for years. Says it all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conjo Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 We need him right now, regardless of who we might possibly potentially get in January. At the moment him and Lascelles seems to be the top two influencial players in our squad that keeps the others on their toes and spurs on the never surrender attitude we've been lacking for years. Edit: I don't really rate him as a player either btw, but we can't risk losing the good squad mentality we have when in a relegation battle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Ritchie is not a very good player like, he is extremely limited and quite average. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 We'd be absolutely mental to sell anyone bar Colback / Mitro IMO. Squad is shite enough as it is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Ritchie is not a very good player like, he is extremely limited and quite average. While that might be true (I think it's very harsh, personally) the context here is that he's still one of our better players as things stand. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 I was determined to not put Ritchie in my top 5, but there's nothing else. After Merino, Lascelles & Atsu there's only really Shelvey, Gayle, Yedlin, Clark and that can't be right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 We'd be absolutely mental to sell anyone bar Colback / Mitro IMO. Squad is shite enough as it is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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