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Why is that cynical?

There is no next level up.

His wife loves the toon.

Everyone thinks every good player will leave next summer. This is basically permanent.

He didn't really have any chance last night, he was moved into CF so quickly. He's never going to play himself into a better zone doing that.

I think the actual match is quite a small part of the experience for a lot of fans.

Isak didn't say he was going to stay forever but it was the manner of his departure that made him a hate figure. As long as Sandro doesn't do that, c'est la vie.

Funny how the perception from players is always so different to ours. Think we need to be a bit more like them sometimes

Fair enough, I just think a lot of the time we tend to jump to very negative conclusions about Gordon. Of course he has been bad, I was just wondering why.

I really like Barnes at times, have to admit. Sometimes he looks a bit like a kid playing with bigger lads, but he's so elegant on the ball and has a ruthless instinct to do damage every time he can.

The cross by Murphy was really annoying, just needed a bit more attention and it was a tap-in.

Combining Joelinton, Burn and out of form Gordon down the same side is always going to result in some very awkward situations.

I didn't want him to start tonight but I thought he had a really good game.

Meet Jacob Murphy

Was very disappointing that Murphy didn't lay that ball on a plate for him. Looked like a certainty.

IIRC local hero has been played for most of the last 30 years, no? Sign of the times? I wasn't a regular as a kid but I can't remember a time when it wasn't played.

If not let's hope he's hiring someone privately to help him.

I mean, something is clearly wrong, everyone can see that. Could be many things, we're just speculating. I think Kaka is basically right that he needs to relax and return to a simpler, more natural game for a while.

Surely not, he's a PL player and we would have watched literally every minute he played for the last 2 years

Towards the end I think he was just trying to force something in the hope he could create a dangerous situation, because the game was basically safe and he may as well try to do something rather than just pass back.

I noticed how often he has started knocking the ball down the line, which is clearly not what he wants to be doing. I don't know if that's because he's trying to do what the fans keep screaming at him, or if he's being told to do it, or if he's just hoping he'll get an assist and get some relief or something. His strengths are reading of the attacker v defender situations, unpredictable movement, getting into the inside channels. He doesn't seem to even be trying that at the moment.

Gordon has so many attributes and is a really intelligent player. Can only think there's something wrong in his mentality or his state of mind that's holding him back at the moment. I do think it's a bit lazy to just assume it's because he thinks he's better than he is. For some reason he doesn't seem to get much generosity from people - I think because they didn't like him before he came here. He might need to come out of the firing line for a while but I back him to do well again.

One like Tonali that I couldn’t believe we had signed. He has the potential to be a really top fullback. Just please stay fit.

I think he gave the ball away around 80% of the times he got it.

Didn’t do much when he came on but it was a bit unfair to move him into the middle where he would not obviously never get the ball.