Anthony Gordon

[prefabtoon]

If it comes off there's going to be so much hair envy at the club.

 

 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Just now, Jordan said:

Really don’t want Gordon. Will really struggle to warm to him ala Colback when he signed for us. I’ve also never seen anything from him that would indicate he’s worth £35-50m

 

Any English footballer who can breathe is worth £30m.

[Geordie Boyo]

Giving his mentality it seems strange we’re after him to be honest. Doesn’t seem to fit the ED criteria. Obviously any player who does sign we’ll always have faith that ED will do a job. Can only wait and see, but it seems at least over the next two or three days there’ll be one or two signings .

[LionOfGosforth]

9 minutes ago, 54 said:

Can I ask, who cares? Transfer fee's are hyper inflated these days. Leeds just signed a striker for £30m from Hoffenheim wo has a 1 in 6 goal return. Transfer fee's are meaningless.

 

I suspect the furore is more to do with taking the amount we'd be spending on Gordon (sounds like potentially anywhere from 25-40m) away from the perceived needs for RB cover and a quality creative CM, rather than the actual amount. That said, nobody knows our exact finances with respect to ffp and what we truly have in the pot to spend this month etc

[Mountain]

1 minute ago, Jordan said:

Really don’t want Gordon. Will really struggle to warm to him ala Colback when he signed for us. I’ve also never seen anything from him that would indicate he’s worth £35-50m

 

Yeah but Colback SUUUUUUUCKED.

 

Gordon has genuine potential.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Just now, Geordie Boyo said:

Giving his mentality it seems strange we’re after him to be honest. Doesn’t seem to fit the ED criteria. Obviously any player who does sign we’ll always have faith that ED will do a job. Can only wait and see, but it seems at least over the next two or three days there’ll be one or two signings .

 

Depends why he behaves like a dick. If he does it because he really cares and wants to win, that could easily be redirected in a positive way by Eddie and Mad Dog. 

[astraguy]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11670151/Chelsea-star-Mykhailo-Mudryk-fastest-player-Premier-League-season.html

 

Alot of our players got judged playing in a poor side under Brucie, I'll let the coaches decide 

 

 

 

Edited January 24, 2023 by astraguy

[ExiledGeordie]

I’ll let Howe decide on whether he thinks a player is a fit for the team 👍

[Keegans Export]

Looking at his numbers on fbref you can see why Eddie might fancy it - not dissimilar to both Miggy and Jack Harrison who we know we were interested in.

 

Anthony Gordon (fbref)

[gdm]

20 minutes ago, Wandy said:

 

So you'd be comfortable paying £40m+ upfront for him?

You said over £25m that’s some jump to £40m

[SUPERTOON]

Edwards mentioning Ziyech on loan with an option to buy, that would be a better deal.

[worthy]

Just now, Keegans Export said:

Looking at his numbers on fbref you can see why Eddie might fancy it - not dissimilar to both Miggy and Jack Harrison who we know we were interested in.

 

Anthony Gordon (fbref)

Aye as a left back he will be superb. Tackling and radging around giving away freekicks. Not that we need to unlock teams or anything cause we have scored massive amounts of goals the last games and not squandered any chances in the final third. Gordon is not what we need at all.

[jack j]

17 minutes ago, 1892er said:

You'd think some people are buying him with their own money

When things seem to be so tight I'd rather we are spending the fucker elsewhere than that rat faced cunt tbh

[The Butcher]

1 minute ago, SUPERTOON said:

Edwards mentioning Ziyech on loan with an option to buy, that would be a better deal.

Would take both. Get both Murphy and Fraser in the sea. 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

I think we probably need to accept that we will be buying a lot of people who are fit, fast and good at pressing. 

 

Of course we need creativity and guile too, but that won't be the primary criteria, especially not at this point in our development. 

[HaydnNUFC]

Got to trust Howe as he's done more than earn that but bloody hell this is underwhelming if it happens.

 

 

Edited January 24, 2023 by HaydnNUFC

[PauloGeordio]

I’m excited to see what Eddie can do with him (hair as well mind)!

 

 

Edited January 24, 2023 by PauloGeordio

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Just now, PauloGeordio said:

I’m excited to see what Eddie can do with him (hair as well mind)!

 

He'll really be out on his own hair-wise, most of our squad are more on the conventional neat hair side.

[PauloGeordio]

1 minute ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

 

He'll really be out on his own hair-wise, most of our squad are more on the conventional neat hair side.

 Matt Targett will help him tone it down a touch, saying that Schar will be having none of it!

 

it’ll be like joining the marines, first thing, in the chair and a buzz cut. Eddie explaining hairodynamics!

 

 

Edited January 24, 2023 by PauloGeordio

[Kimbo]

See him as a Murphy replacement and this becomes far more palatable.

[HawK]

22 minutes ago, 1892er said:

You'd think some people are buying him with their own money

 

The debatable issue is if the amount of funds available is limited, due to FFP, actual funds available or whatever, is whether spending X on player A or Y on player B helps the team more. In isolation, a deal for £25m for Anthony Gordon might be a good shout.

 

But if we have an amount of money, then spending a chunk of that money on Anthony Gordon which then precludes us from then signing James Maddison because we then don't have enough left to pay is what I dislike. This is the either/or argument, it has nothing to do with player similarity or position. Purely from a budget and positional priority perspective.

[PauloGeordio]

1 minute ago, HawK said:

 

The debatable issue is if the amount of funds available is limited, due to FFP, actual funds available or whatever, is whether spending X on player A or Y on player B helps the team more. In isolation, a deal for £25m for Anthony Gordon might be a good shout.

 

But if we have an amount of money, then spending a chunk of that money on Anthony Gordon which then precludes us from then signing James Maddison because we then don't have enough left to pay is what I dislike. This is the either/or argument, it has nothing to do with player similarity or position. Purely from a budget and positional priority perspective.

We’ve got some sponsorship chunks up and coming to go into the mix also.

[Comegetasample]

1 minute ago, HawK said:

 

The debatable issue is if the amount of funds available is limited, due to FFP, actual funds available or whatever, is whether spending X on player A or Y on player B helps the team more. In isolation, a deal for £25m for Anthony Gordon might be a good shout.

 

But if we have an amount of money, then spending a chunk of that money on Anthony Gordon which then precludes us from then signing James Maddison because we then don't have enough left to pay is what I dislike. This is the either/or argument, it has nothing to do with player similarity or position. Purely from a budget and positional priority perspective.

 

understand the sentiment but people said that when we signed pope.

 

ie "we don't need a goalkeeper we should spend that money elsewhere"

 

2 weeks later we splashed 60m on Isak. 

[Tiresias]

Looks like the Danjuma deal has been hijacked by Spurs so doubt Everton will sell anyway

[buzza]

Got 40 mil champs league cash comin