Anthony Gordon (now playing for FC Barcelona)

[Heron]

8 minutes ago, Cf said:

And as much as I shout FOR FUKES SAKE GORDON when he skies yet another effort I'd say LW is the least of our worries atm.

I think our wingers are our biggest worry tbh, there and goalkeeper.

[Erikse]

23 hours ago, Heron said:

I think our wingers are our biggest worry tbh, there and goalkeeper.

 

Agree. Bruno is soon going to be our topscorer at this rate. Barnes is our top scoring winger in the league with 3 goals, ahead of Gordon who's at pens. Wolte hasn't gotten that much service, which again is partly due to the wingers. There has been so many tight scorelines where more quality on the wings would have won us several points.

 

Most teams has wingers who can either create something our of nothing, or who are really efficient. The top teams have wingers who do both of those. We have wingers who does neither, except the efficiency of Barnes when he's in form, and Murphys crossing ability (which we haven't gotten much out of this season anyways).

 

I thought that maybe Elanga would be able to create something out of nothing, but it just hasn't happened yet.

 

 

Edited January 1 by Erikse

[Cf]

14 minutes ago, Heron said:

I think our wingers are our biggest worry tbh, there and goalkeeper.

 

RW is the main issue there I think. We're just a bit unbalanced which won't be helping LW out. 

 

I'm not saying LW isn't an issue but in terms of priorities I think it's further down the list. 

[Tiotes Witch Doctor]

Was our brightest attacking player the whole time he was on the pitch, provided an assist and was involved in the build up the second goal aswell.

 

Lost the goalscorer running into the box for their goal, didn't look like he could be arsed to track back and his play acting was embarrassing, starting to really dislike him but at least last night he offered something.

 

Don't understand why we don't switch wings during the game though I always think Gordon has looked decent on the right on the rare occasion he's been used there and Barnes is just not suited there at all.

[Zero]

The reason why Gordon has to play on the left is rather simple:

 

Gordon is the only player in our club that can dribble past opponent and carry the ball to the final third. And unfortunately he can only do this on the left side where he has option to cut in. 

 

[CPL]

1 hour ago, Heron said:

Nothing to do with scapegoating. If you want to see scapegoats see Murphy for his whole time here, Dan Burn for a lot of his time here. Gordon has got off scott-free with multiple poor performances for virtually all 2025 until he picked up the red versus Brighton and then Liverpool.

Agree with your points totally. I just hate the fact that there always has to be certain members in the squad that get shit from the fans. It helps no one. 

[Kid Icarus]

6 minutes ago, CPL said:

Agree with your points totally. I just hate the fact that there always has to be certain members in the squad that get shit from the fans. It helps no one. 

I can't think of a player in recent memory whose been given more rope by our fans than Gordon tbh. Getting off to a brilliant start does wonders for player's reputations.

[Ginola14]

have defended him a lot but that miss where he skied it over after Bruno played him in really sums up his finishing lately 

 

he just needed a bit of composure to place it 

 

surely that's something he should be working on in training 

 

overall I think he's mostly good but that was another awful miss 

[Kimbo]

I can’t understand why some players can’t strike a ball. When it was laid off for Gordon from the free kick or for that chance where he skied it, I had no confidence he would get a decent connection. He’ll always scuff it or sky it.

[Kid Icarus]

Tbf I've been much happier with his last two performances. He's still been sloppy, still lost his man, still been stroppy and still not been clinical. The difference in the last two though is that he's kept going and despite all of the above, still done a lot of good. That's what you want to see from a player in that situation and it's how they re-find their form.

[Interpolic]

There's clearly been agreement behind the scenes that Gordon will never play right wing for us again, and I'm still salty about it. I'm not seeing anything useful from Gordon on the left that he couldn't do on the right, and it's been that way for some time. 

 

Barnes is most potent from the left side while Gordon skies and scuffs shots from there almost every single time. The home game against Burnley where he hit 2 shots sweetly appears to be an anomaly. No way Barnes doesn't do better with that chance Gordon skied last night. 

[Begbie]

46 minutes ago, Tiotes Witch Doctor said:

Lost the goalscorer running into the box for their goal, didn't look like he could be arsed to track back

To loose something, you must have had it in the first place. He was just walking around as he use to do, and never had the player. I really dont know or understand how the coaching team doesnt see it, as it happens every game. Also wonder how many goals we have conceeded where he didnt track his man..

[alexf]

Echo some of the comments. 

 

He's had a few good moments recently where he helps win the ball back high up and also crossing the ball in with intent.

 

However...the lack of effort going backwards at times was pretty poor. Losing his man for the the goal and for that chance where he lost the ball and just lay on the floor for ages whilst we cleared it off the line. Also going down and staying down every time Walker breathed on him. 

 

His finishing is atrocious now and I don't understand how he's gone so backwards in that regard. Every shot now is skied or scuffed.

 

As others said, his style is knock and run so I don't understand why he can't be switched with Barnes who is proven at cutting in and scoring great goals from the left. 

 

All Gordon can do is run down the line and scuff a cross on his left, he would be better running down the right and crossing with his stronger foot. 

 

Eddie needs to be asked why he won't consider this option. We are taking away a potent attacking option by nullifying Barnes threat.

[Holloway]

2 hours ago, Keefaz said:

He's fine, isn't he? He gets dogs abuse on here.

Loads of posts go: he was good(or better than previously),lets get that quickly out of the way, then gets absolutely slaughtered for all kinds of shite. Agenda driven patter staring you right in the chops, it's kind of amusing 

[aussiemag]

What would be an acceptable transfer fee for him? I would snap your hands off for 70 mill. 

[KDT]

He’s our biggest attacking threat, why are we selling him? 

[Zero]

43 minutes ago, alexf said:

Echo some of the comments. 

 

He's had a few good moments recently where he helps win the ball back high up and also crossing the ball in with intent.

 

However...the lack of effort going backwards at times was pretty poor. Losing his man for the the goal and for that chance where he lost the ball and just lay on the floor for ages whilst we cleared it off the line. Also going down and staying down every time Walker breathed on him. 

 

His finishing is atrocious now and I don't understand how he's gone so backwards in that regard. Every shot now is skied or scuffed.

 

As others said, his style is knock and run so I don't understand why he can't be switched with Barnes who is proven at cutting in and scoring great goals from the left. 

 

All Gordon can do is run down the line and scuff a cross on his left, he would be better running down the right and crossing with his stronger foot. 

 

Eddie needs to be asked why he won't consider this option. We are taking away a potent attacking option by nullifying Barnes threat.

 

Because his left foot has no striking power and he doesn’t have the cut-in option when playing at the right hand side, thus make his opponent a lot easier to contain him.

 

Did you ever think about the possibilities that he even can’t knock and run when playing at the right? 

[Zero]

14 minutes ago, KDT said:

He’s our biggest attacking threat, why are we selling him? 

people thought we can buy a much better winger (no matter right or left) with that amount of money and make us stronger.

 

I don’t agree with that btw. Look at Mbeumo and Semenyo where we have no chance to get, and the one (Elanga) we just bought….

[Taylor Swift]

25 minutes ago, aussiemag said:

What would be an acceptable transfer fee for him? I would snap your hands off for 70 mill. 

Would you really? 
 

Elanga cost £55m and he can’t dribble past his man. 
 

We have no dribblers in the squad, except Gordon.

[Lush Vlad]

1 hour ago, Kimbo said:

I can’t understand why some players can’t strike a ball. When it was laid off for Gordon from the free kick or for that chance where he skied it, I had no confidence he would get a decent connection. He’ll always scuff it or sky it.

Thanks for reminding me about that free kick  Good God that was bad. 

[Geordie Ahmed]

36 minutes ago, Lush Vlad said:

Thanks for reminding me about that free kick  Good God that was bad. 

I liked the idea behind it but having Gordon the one to play it to instead of Barnes was madness

[Lush Vlad]

15 minutes ago, Geordie Ahmed said:

I liked the idea behind it but having Gordon the one to play it to instead of Barnes was madness

The execution was all horrible. Didn’t really fool them or work room for the shot and like you say. Having Gordon as the one to take the shot was madness. 

[alexf]

2 hours ago, Zero said:

 

Because his left foot has no striking power and he doesn’t have the cut-in option when playing at the right hand side, thus make his opponent a lot easier to contain him.

 

Did you ever think about the possibilities that he even can’t knock and run when playing at the right? 

 

I've seen him have a decent game at right wing when we played arsenal at home in the league last season. So he can do it and he put in a great cross for the winning goal in that game. There are probably other examples aswell. 

 

But irrelevant to that, I think Barnes' strengths on the left out way the strengths of Gordon for me based on the last 12 months. He also links with Hall far better than Gordon does. 

 

There is some weird seniority about Gordon, the way he demands the penalties and even taking control of that free kick last night. It's probably to do with his character compared to Barnes and probably refuses to do what he is asked on the right whereas Barnes seems more timid and just does what he is told by Howe.

[Fak]

 

[Craig]

Thing that frustrates me the most is he doesn't seem to have the intelligence to know when to take a risk and when not to so constantly seems to give the ball away in dangerous positions where the defenders behind him have already gone forward.

 

The shrugging or the diving as part of losing the ball doesn't help either.