Murray doesn't want to be a bench player in the EPL - I agree but if good enough, he wouldn't be on the bench. Having said that, I think of the three he would have been the most effective had we kept him and I say this despite thinking it was a good bit of business at the time.

Jedi, as much as I love his commitment and leadership, has to play regular 90 mins to be seen at his best (as does Murray)and I would debate that his leadership qualities make up for his technical deficiencies in the way that Terry's did at Chelski.

Gayle - best natural finisher at the club when he was here. However, that didn't make him EPL quality. Couldn't be played up top on his own so you would have to adjust the whole team to suit one player. Scoring goals for fun at Championship level as we all knew he would. Playing in the best team at that level and getting plenty of chances. Good luck to him and I would have kept him over Townsend but it was the right move for him.

Before you criticise someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticise them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

Greate news, if possible get him back he will boost the whole team with his attitude like nowone else in this club seemes able to do.
He4 should never have been sold at the first time, just another of Alan Pardew`s stupid moves.

I think, if you reach deep down inside your subconscious, you already know the answer to your question.

Edited by NickinOX (06 Jan 2017 9.24pm)

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

You disagree, then agree Jedinak and Murray would only be bench warmers in the Premier. They knew they could play for a Championship team, fair play to them, they wanted to play.
On Gayle, I liked him, but is not good enough in the role he was asked to play, basically he not strong enough.
I stand by my comment, that no Premier clubs were interested in them.

Edited by Painter (06 Jan 2017 11.18pm)

I think some people miss the point about Jedinak.
I would not expect him to play every game or even a full 90 minutes.
It is the effect a player like that can have by being around.
Strength of character, being there for the other players, a positive influence in the dressing room etc.
Frank Lampard - if he were with us - would not be capable of playing all the time now but what an effect he would have.
If reports are to be believed the whole squad was unhappy with the way Jedinak was treated by Pardew and so I feel that unlikely as it is that a return to CPFC would only help us.
Jedinak or Mutch - you decide!

I said I think they can all do a job in the prem...that they could be prem players. I never said they were 1st team prem players week in week out. I disagreed that all they were capable of was champ football.

The notion that players playing well in the champ wouldn't be of any use at all to teams like ours is daft. I wish clubs had had that opinion before they took Moses and Clyne away from us...that would have been sweet.

Edited by Hudsoneagle (07 Jan 2017 10.13pm)