gbandit Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 Don’t think it’s a worry, Howe knows we needed three points today and he knew that we were going to dominate the ball in the second half. He added a more lethal striking option and a player who is world class. Don’t think there’s more to it than that. Main thing is that Gordon needs to take it on the chin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallowgate Toon Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 Thought he was unlucky to be hooked, tbh, as he'd had a far better half than Murphy. Think he has some great tools to work with. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stottie Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 Did well I thought, and we finally got to see some of that fabled speed. Still settling in, so he gets a pass on not taking that chance. The long ball for the third aside, most of Southampton's last ditch defending was actually pretty good, and we ultimately had to swamp them with wave after wave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thumbheed Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 Absolutely no doubt he'll be a very good player for us. There's only about 5-6 players in our entire squad who have come into the team hit the ground running and I see no reason why Gordon should be the exception to the other 20 odd players. I'm only gonna judge him on his qualities at the moment and he has a lot of exciting ingredients. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 Just a reminder of what Howe said about him prior to the Everton game ... No, I don’t think we have seen the best of Anthony Gordon,” he said. “There is more to come from him. We have seen glimpses of what he can do. There was a moment on Sunday when he nearly scored and showed his pace on transition. He has got so many qualities. Putting it all together for 90 minutes, we have not seen that yet." “January transfers are incredibly difficult. An individual joining a new team, totally new way of playing. For a young player to adjust to, that isn’t easy." “I am really pleased with him and I know he will be a high quality player for us in the future, and I know he is going to be the right signing for us because of the way he has reacted to the move.” Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 Both things are true IMO: - He was shite today (perhaps trying to prove too much) - He is not a write off Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wandy Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 Feel very sorry for the lad. He has barely put a foot wrong since he got here but, if anything, is trying too hard. As long as he stays mentally strong, and doesn't let this frustrating start to his NUFC career get him down, it will all go well for him eventually ....but it will be next season now for him I think. People writing him off already need to have a word with themselves. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Icarus Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 He's just at the beginning of his journey with us and is young. I'm not even remotely concerned tbh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kocunar Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 2 minutes ago, KaKa said: Just a reminder of what Howe said about him prior to the Everton game ... No, I don’t think we have seen the best of Anthony Gordon,” he said. “There is more to come from him. We have seen glimpses of what he can do. There was a moment on Sunday when he nearly scored and showed his pace on transition. He has got so many qualities. Putting it all together for 90 minutes, we have not seen that yet." “January transfers are incredibly difficult. An individual joining a new team, totally new way of playing. For a young player to adjust to, that isn’t easy." “I am really pleased with him and I know he will be a high quality player for us in the future, and I know he is going to be the right signing for us because of the way he has reacted to the move.” Full preseason with us and he will be a beast. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 1 minute ago, Beren said: Both things are true IMO: - He was shite today (perhaps trying to prove too much) - He is not a write off Beren's Paradox was established in 2023, when Beren declared that two opposing internet football arguments could in fact be true at the same time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 2 minutes ago, Wandy said: Feel very sorry for the lad. He has barely put a foot wrong since he got here but, if anything, is trying too hard. As long as he stays mentally strong, and doesn't let this frustrating start to his NUFC career get him down, it will all go well for him eventually ....but it will be next season now for him I think. People writing him off already need to have a word with themselves. 100% agree Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
80 Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 Well this was a divisive performance... To me he has confidence issues, sometimes meaning he plays safe or fails to let his legs go and be more ambitious. And sometimes meaning he looks too relaxed on the ball, which I interpret as overcompensation. I liked a fair bit of what he did, but it doesn't feel like he matches the rest of our team right now. I would guess he was partly hooked as Isak works better out left than right. For the foreseeable, I can't believe Howe and co. don't have a sound end vision for him, though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
80 Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 I also think he'd benefit from having a modern fullback behind him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tisd09 Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 I completely wrote off Joelinton and Murphy previously, I think this lad deserves some time, on another day he would have had two goals. Don’t think he’s a write off just yet Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mighty__mag Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 Thought the only thing stopping him scoring today was himself. He let the pressure of getting that first goal take it away from him. A full preseason next season, and team bonding, Eddie will have him solved. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 Honestly think he got hooked for trying to do the Isak shuffle down the left touchline and failing miserably. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 19 minutes ago, 80 said: I also think he'd benefit from having a modern fullback behind him. Burns fault again? FFS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
80 Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 5 minutes ago, Zero said: Burns fault again? FFS Yes, all of it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M1tche Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 42 minutes ago, David Edgar said: Poor is subjective and I'd say he certainly had poor moments: the shot from the low success position wide left and then just trying the same switch to the left and sprint on the defenders. Your observation about him not playing the system sounds like it is really on the money and is what I was getting at with how we needed him subbed off to get back into the game. Im not arguing that the sub was wrong at all, it was 100% the right call and would have said so at the time. he made a few decision making errors either through thinking he could get in the goos books by goign rogue or just not listening and then the 1 on 1 was a poor finish. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 Sold in a year or two. In five years he'll be one of those 'shit, I forgot he played for us' players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufcjb Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 Could have been a different afternoo had his effort went in instead of hitting the post. Hope he keeps his chin up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 1 hour ago, mouldy_uk said: Surely people aren’t writing him off already, they’ve seen what Howe has done with Joe and Longstaff? He’ll come good, but I think he’s fortunate that we are on such a good run that we don’t need him firing on all cylinders yet. This is a weird argument to me. People have suggested he’s not a £40m player and we should have spent the money on someone that is. I didn’t think he was particularly talented and I still don’t. He’s shown little in thr way of genuine quality. I like him as an impact sub again at tired minds annd legs atm. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAK Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 I thought he was ok, initially got the better of Lyeanco on the outside and had a good left foot shot, anlso hit post from Isaks pass. After initial success he tried to go inside and then out to beat the man and was outmuscled every time. Still work in progress but he wasn’t that bad, just we weren’t clicking as a team and we had a better player in a Wilson to bring on. Think he needs bringing on when we’re already winning and there’s no pressure to build up the confidence. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KetsbaiaIsBald Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 I think we should be signing players in 1 of 3 groups: 1. Obviously better first team player that going to come in and push one of our current players to the bench(in a week or 3) 2. Young players who are good enough to be on the bench between now and a year or so. all going well in 18 months or so they will be fighting for a starting place 3. Young player that go out on load. I dont want us signings player who are players that are similar level to our current players. I think Gordon’s issue is that he’s between a 1 & 2 and we played 40 million for him. I think if you can forget about the fee and think of him as a 2. He is doing brilliantly. The guy needs time. He will come good?. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnes23 Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 (edited) A mixed bag today as others have said. Plenty of endeavour and a lot of good runs to get into promising positions, he almost seemed to be the main focus of our forward play for large parts of the first half as a result of that. However, his decision making was poor, I agree that he didn't seem to be entirely in sync with our patterns of play and was perhaps playing too individually, which may have been a significant factor in his HT substitution. Too early to be writing him off for sure but it's not unreasonable to have doubts about whether he has the potential to evolve into a top-four level PL player. Edited April 30, 2023 by Barnes23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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