who are our purples now?

Pardew used to have his purples....


sir Bobby had his blue chip players.....


who are ours now?

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Originally Posted by waalsendmick

Pardew used to have his purples....


sir Bobby had his blue chip players.....


who are ours now?

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Shelvey, Lascelles, Clarke, Merino, Ritchie, Gayle in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by waalsendmick

Pardew used to have his purples....


sir Bobby had his blue chip players.....


who are ours now?

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Ritchie
Lejeune (i think he was bought for first team starter)
Clark
Lascelles (For attitude rather than first team spot)
Shelvey
Gayle (although 50/50 on this one since were prepared to sell)

Good thread. :)

Mind, when you sit down and think about it...there's a glaring gap up front given that Rafa doesn't rate Mitro but was worried enough about Gayle to put Mitro on the bench ahead of him. Begs the question 'do we really have a blue chip striker'?

Lejeune
Clark
Merino
Ritchie
Shelvey

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Originally Posted by Zippity

Good thread. :)

Mind, when you sit down and think about it...there's a glaring gap up front given that Rafa doesn't rate Mitro but was worried enough about Gayle to put Mitro on the bench ahead of him. Begs the question 'do we really have a blue chip striker'?

Lejeune
Clark
Merino
Ritchie
Shelvey

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And that is one thing we do need. An automatic Blue Chip Striker.

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Originally Posted by Zippity

Good thread. :)

Mind, when you sit down and think about it...there's a glaring gap up front given that Rafa doesn't rate Mitro but was worried enough about Gayle to put Mitro on the bench ahead of him. Begs the question 'do we really have a blue chip striker'?

Lejeune
Clark
Merino
Ritchie
Shelvey

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that list says it all.... you NEED a good spine to your team. full backs and wingers can be rotated.

we have no definite 1st choice goalkeeper and no 1st choice striker!

Several of you list Merino. He does look good, but we've only seen him play a few games! Hardly a 'purple' in the way our established star players were in the past. However, one thing I'll say is that Rafa has always known the importance of a strong squad over individual stars, and that's definitely what we've been building towards. He put together a really strong squad for the fizzy, and whilst this window hasn't been perfect, it's clear that we're continuing down the road of building for depth rather than splurging on a couple of marquee signings.

Yeah, I did pause before including Merino. I know you could point to Sissoko's Chelsea debut and compare what we all thought then with how it turned out but Merino's performance was more 'quietly' impressive, if you see what I mean.

Plus, I thought the list looked a little short. XD

we list Lejeune too..... and we've seen even less of him!

Aah, but the little we saw looked good... XD