Anthony Gordon

[magorific]

3 minutes ago, 80 said:

Hard to see him not getting our player of the season award as things stand. Still raw but he's taking a lot of responsibility on and becoming totemic for us.

This Botman boy might have a shout. The young lad Trippier also looks a prospect.

[Turnbull2000]

Would be the senior England squad if playing for the old big six or West Ham. Can't believe the turnaround from last season.

 

 

Edited September 27, 2023 by Turnbull2000

[Vinny Green Balls]

Love that he thinks he needs to get better to make the England squad. This kid has a good head on his shoulders. Pretty obvious why they were desperate to get him. 

 

 

Edited September 27, 2023 by Vinny Green Balls

[54]

He absolutely needs to be in the next England squad.

[Holloway]

a few loose first touches, but what a fucking handful he is. Give him licence to roam

[wormy]

6 hours ago, Paully said:

love this!

 

 

 

Fucking mad a difference him becoming one of ours makes. Properly feel for him in the first clip now for some reason. Like he was some tortured soul that needed to be saved from the hell that was the scouse mackems.

 

Great shift tonight.

[Turnbull2000]

Enjoying this again...

 

 

[Lotus]

He looks confident and sure of himself and that’s putting the shits up the defenders he’s facing.

I’m hoping his pace and willingness to run at players will mean they stand an extra yard off him and that gives him that fraction more time to play a mean pass. 
And if they get tight, knock it down the line and test their hamstrings ?

[Kid Icarus]

He's going to be absolutely fucking knackered by the end of the season like

[alexf]

I think he made a really important decision to leave his boyhood team and join us to develop. We would not be seeing this level from him if he was still at Everton. Howe and the coaching staff have fast tracked his development remarkably. Even in just the short time he's been here you can see the improvements in his game already. 

 

Obviously got himself into peak cardio fitness this summer which helps, but he looks to have filled out abit more aswell and has shown good strength in his duals. 

 

No pressure on the boy as he's still developing, but he's already surpassed my expectations of him for this year so keep going lad.? 

[Mattoon]

He didn't give a great perception at Everton, was known for diving and really wound me up as an opposition player. I hold my hands up though, although he didn't start well, he held his hands up and worked hard to get to where Howe envisioned him and he's probably surpassed expectation.

 

He's had a great season so far, ran tirelessly, harried and harassed defenses to win the ball back and ran his socks off to get us forward. As I said in another thread he turned the game with his tenacity to win the ball back right across the pitch and fired not only the crowd up but the players too. Typified the change in approach to the game 2nf half today.

 

I wasn't impressed when we got him, wouldn't let him go for anything at the moment. Brilliant attitude on the lad, deserves the plaudits he's getting for the work he's put in, long may it continue.

[timeEd32]

15 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

He's going to be absolutely fucking knackered by the end of the season like

He really does need some rest at some point or he’s going to hit a wall in the spring. But we may just need to lean on him for a bit here given the injuries.

[LFEE]

Was great to see that bite he was famed for at Everton (high speed press and forceful tackle) return tonight. Absolutely lifted the crowd just when it was needed. Don’t want us to take that edge out of him. He starting to feel at home at SJP after some very good away performances.

[huss9]

16 minutes ago, timeEd32 said:

He really does need some rest at some point or he’s going to hit a wall in the spring. But we may just need to lean on him for a bit here given the injuries.

one more yellow and he gets his rest.

think it might be the same for bruno, or is it just 5 [remier league yellows?

[Paully]

Unreal this!

 

 

[PauloGeordio]

7 minutes ago, Paully said:

Unreal this!

 

 

“Our” Anthony 

[GeordieDazzler]

I think even Kovacic respected that one

[Dan Gleebals]

Brilliant challenge. Gets that wrong by a split second and thats probably a red!! 

[Choppy Chop Chop]

1 hour ago, Paully said:

Unreal this!

 

 

Wow just wow

[LFEE]

9 hours ago, LFEE said:

Was great to see that bite he was famed for at Everton (high speed press and forceful tackle) return tonight. Absolutely lifted the crowd just when it was needed. Don’t want us to take that edge out of him. He starting to feel at home at SJP after some very good away performances.

Sometimes it’s a simple game. Never underestimate a single great tackle at SJP and the effect it has on a game…

 

https://Twitter.com/j_lke3/status/1707274903865507975?s=46&t=DDNXUN2PoOBhgKmoF77zNw

[jackflap]

Gas that it's taken all of a month of his first full season at the club to totally disprove the widespread notion that we overpaid for him

[PauloGeordio]

????♥️

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Liked the signing but he's been even better than I could have expected. Has everything. 

[HawK]

I think most scepticism around him joining last January was more to do with us seemingly weak in other positions, notably left back, and us relatively stacked where he would be playing. I was supportive of the player when he joined and wanted him to do well, but I would be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed that we hadn't gone out and signed a 40m left back instead. Discussions around budgets and FFP were absolutely rife and no-one really knew if we had any more money to spend, and if we did, it should go to filling the biggest holes in the team.

 

Gordon signed when Almiron, Murphy, Maxi, Joelinton were on the wings with an argument at the time for Isak playing wide and possibly Anderson breaking into the team on the flanks rather than in the middle of the pitch.

 

To me, Gordon signing didn't seem to make sense at the time, regardless of his undoubted potential. I also think it's fair to say that none of us believed he had the quality when he joined to instantly displace Maxi or Almiron (who'd just come off an insane purple patch) and Maxi was still living off that City performance.

 

As we've now had another transfer window under belts, it's become abundantly clear that the club are creating a foundation to build a team from for the future, not just now, with the signings of Hall and Livramento. In hindsight, the Gordon signing makes a lot of sense. Players of a certain mindset, age and potential. Whilst most of us loved Maxi, he was never going to last long in Howe's Newcastle Utd, he's just not that type of player. I was so used to the club's approach of sell-before-we-buy that I hadn't even considered they'd be looking to sell someone on already at the club to make room for him after Gordon joined.

 

Also, I think his move to us has made him as a player, I don't see him getting player of the tournament with the U21s if he was still with Everton. This club - from Stavely to Howe, the coaches and to the support he's received from the fans of the club has brought him on to a whole new level. 

 

After years, decades of mis-management and at best a scatter-gun approach to squad-building which wasn't exclusive to just Ashley's reign, it's quite disconcerting to slowly realise that the people running our club actually know what they're doing and they might be better at it than us fans. Part of my identity as a Newcastle fan has centred around following a club that sort of bumbled about as best it could, to one that resembled an Outlet-store masquerading as a football club. It's hard to start trusting something you've spent the best part of 30 years in my case distrusting. I guess I feel like one of them chimps kept in a cage for 30 years in a laboratory who finally gets released to a place where they can see the sky for the first time.

 

 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Good post but that should've all been clear at the time.