Elliot Anderson (now playing for Nottingham Forest)

[TRon]

2 hours ago, Gottlob said:

He's 21 years old and has just moved to a new team. Descriptions like 'competent', 'short of top level', 'decent', 'solid', 'average', etc. would probably be generous for some of the recent performances by Lewis Hall and Tino Livramento, and they'd also be more than apt for the likes of Dan Burn, Emil Krafth and our new signing Lloyd Kelly. I think Anderson would have been a useful member of the squad. He's added a bit of grit to his game, passes the ball nicely and has better close ball control than most of our midfielders, which is something we lack especially in the final third, plus he'd have been another option down the left if we're looking to free up Barnes and Gordon. I think it's a shame we had to sell him.

 

We only sold him because our backs were to the wall. It's not like we even got great money for him considering we had to take their cast off keeper for £20m to make it happen. Ideally I am sure we would rather have kept him as a squad player who we could develop, but that is just how PSR is screwing the game in general and lots of clubs are having to make such pointless deals.

[PauloGeordio]

 

[HawK]

"some" familiar faces?

[Sibierski]

Back in England fold and with u21s. 

[huss9]

i wish him all the best. hope he becomes a top player.

[Lish007]

Forest fans raving about him. I do miss this lad... it's a shame we had to sell him as I think he is a very good player. Maybe probably tried too hard with us and will find his way without pressure from us at Forest. 

 

Then come back to us!! On a free

[Coffee_Johnny]

Both Anderson and Armstrong went for similar floated chips over Pope in the recent games. Apropos nowt, but it is a low probability unusual goal attempt and stood out that two of our previous players fancied trying it. 

[maybe_next_year]

Reminds me of a young Yankuba Minteh 

[Newcastle Fan]

Only saw the first half yesterday but he was impressive, assisted the goal and we doing a lot of good work both recovering the ball and moving the team forward.

[Rafalove]

Reading the Forest forum, they really are raving about him. With one saying he’s in the same level as MGW. Who would have no doubt cost us an arm and a leg if we had tried to sign.

[TRon]

22 minutes ago, Rafalove said:

Reading the Forest forum, they really are raving about him. With one saying he’s in the same level as MGW. Who would have no doubt cost us an arm and a leg if we had tried to sign.

 

From what I've seen he's getting to play centre midfield though, which I always assumed was his favoured position. Don't think he got that opportunity here much, he was mainly played on the left where he consistently ran into defenders.

[Ben]

I always liked Anderson but I wasn't exactly disappointed when we sold him 

[Gawalls]

On 29/08/2024 at 09:16, KDT said:

Thought he played ok last night but definitely still glimpses of why he probably wouldn't get to where we want to be as a player, yes I know Longstaff has his limitations but I get the feeling with Anderson that nobody is even sure where his best position is. Longstaff for all his technical issues still shows a decent footballing brain (making good forward runs, offers a bit of a goal threat & his actual positioning sense in both attack and defense is good) I don't really see any of that with Anderson for now. 

His corner was better than any of ours

[Boey_Jarton]

From the Forest forum. 

 

"We've got one here, one of the first names on the team sheet now. I can't believe Newcastle chose to get rid of him and keep Longstaff"

 

[Skeletor]

Yeah well... Vlachodimos... he's....gah....

 

[duo]

2 minutes ago, Boey_Jarton said:

From the Forest forum. 

 

"We've got one here, one of the first names on the team sheet now. I can't believe Newcastle chose to get rid of him and keep Longstaff"

 

Because the rules the elite clubs brought in forced us to - simple really

[Gallowgate Toon]

It's too early to say with him really - I'm just happy for him that he's likely to get consistent game time.

 

That video of him looking at our fans on Weds was pretty sad, tbh.

[Holloway]

50 odd games for us, didn't see anyone raving about him tbf

[Rafalove]

43 minutes ago, TRon said:

 

From what I've seen he's getting to play centre midfield though, which I always assumed was his favoured position. Don't think he got that opportunity here much, he was mainly played on the left where he consistently ran into defenders.

 

 

Tbf, he played there 16 times last year.

[duo]

8 minutes ago, Holloway said:

50 odd games for us, didn't see anyone raving about him tbf

tbf I thought he was decent towards the end of last season - even go as far to say he was one of our better players.  He never had a proper run of games which is something he'll get at Forrest.  I hope he does well - I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't want to leave. 

[TRon]

10 minutes ago, Rafalove said:

 

 

Tbf, he played there 16 times last year.

 

As part of a midfield 3 where he was more left side I believe. From my recollection he ended up drifting wide quite a lot and running into defenders.

 

The one game of his which really stood out in memory is where he came on as a sub and I remember commenting he'd had more impact in 20mins than Longstaff had the whole game.

[Holloway]

13 minutes ago, duo said:

tbf I thought he was decent towards the end of last season - even go as far to say he was one of our better players.  He never had a proper run of games which is something he'll get at Forrest.  I hope he does well - I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't want to leave. 

Aye,decent for sure,think he could have been a valuable squad player for us for a few more years, can't argue with the fee,though

[duo]

4 minutes ago, Holloway said:

Aye,decent for sure,think he could have been a valuable squad player for us for a few more years, can't argue with the fee,though

We got nought for him really as we had to pay £20mil for a keeper we don't want. It is just on the 'books' it shows as a £35Mil sale.

 

 

Edited September 1, 2024 by duo

[Holloway]

20m? Whatever the ins and outs of that deal are it was either sell him and Minteh or lose a purple, nobody else is generating those sort of funds 

[Lish007]

I reckon he'll be back!