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Absolutely. Tagged along last year and really enjoyed it. Good day, good people. 👍

It’s also a difficult season to judge midfielders/attackers on, as we haven’t really had a ‘functioning’ striker all season.

I normally agree with most of your posts, but I disagree with the majority of what you’ve just said. That’s football I guess, all about opinions. I’d rather keep a player we know can reach those top levels and help him get back there, rather than sell him and keep the players we know can never reach those levels. You choose to dismiss his good stats so that you can focus on the bad stats, and again talk about body language and ‘he looks like’ to justify the criticism. I don’t post much, but this topic has so much nonsense in it I can’t help myself. A drink helps as well 😀 im starting to think it’s inevitable he leaves in the summer, but we’ll be a worse team for it and the critics will just move onto someone else 🤷🏻‍♂️

I don’t pay attention to what players have to say off the pitch, what haircut they have , what clothes they wear, what their body language suggests, what books they read etc… I judge them on how they play. If you apply the same level of scrutiny/analysis to all of our attacking players, Gordon offers more than all of them. It’s honestly not even close! Yet people seem determined to judge him to a different standard to the other players and force him out of the club, it’s absolutely crazy. Getting rid of your best players is not the answer, just look how losing Isak has worked out. We have problems to sort, Gordon is not one of them.

Were you this upset when Bruno didn’t let Nick take the pen against Brentford?

Yep. He’s created a drama out of nothing. Totally unnecessary.

So you want him to give the pen to nick so he can pad his stats?

That really is over the top. We won. He scored. He played well. As has been the case for a while. Really don’t get why people feel the need to slaughter him. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Criticism of Gordon is ridiculously over the top. When he came on, he scored one and help set up 2 (inc his pen) and people are still giving him grief 🤦🏻‍♂️ We should be happy him and barnes are both playing well and contributing, rather than looking for negatives. His miss shocking mind 😬

😂 just leave the vuvuzela at home this game!

Nope. Was watching it as well. Absolutely ridiculous!

Isak staying for 3 more years and then leaving on free is probably better for the club finances long term than selling him this year or next. He is the differential to the teams we are competing with for champions league places. Why give up that advantage? if we sell him and get his replacement wrong, it would set us back years. Hopefully he signs a new contract without a release clause. But only sell if he asks to leave.

Selling isak is utter madness. It sends the wrong message to current players and also any we are trying to bring in. Yes, it gives us a short term boost to PSR but will almost certainly leave us weaker at CF, the key position on the pitch. Qualifying for CL for the next 3 seasons means we can name our price for sponsorship deals etc… and probably triple 🤷🏻‍♂️ our commercial income in that time. Solving our PSR issues for ever 😂 To do that we need Isak.

Its the length of time we had to suffer pardew that puts him at the top of my list. twice as long as Bruce! 🤮

I’d say for this window we don’t really want to be taking risks and probably need to go for the more expensive solid/reliable picks for RW/CB. We then have a pretty strong team/squad which gives us the base to look at more risky (cheaper) signings in future windows.