England’s Anthony Gordon

[Tsunami]

Gordon really struggled when he first moved up here. The club (and Staveley personally) have been completely hands on with him and his girlfriend. Staveley had gone above and beyond in helping them.

 

What that means in terms of loyalty I’ve no idea, Gordon strikes me as a bit of a lad with a plan. If that involves playing for his boyhood team and they come calling, who knows. Let’s hope they don’t.

 

Having said that, my brother knows Lee Clark and was told that a deal involving Bobby coming back was one of many options the club had considered. Not sure how many bevvies Lee had had at this point.

[SUPERTOON]

2 minutes ago, Tsunami said:

Gordon really struggled when he first moved up here. The club (and Staveley personally) have been completely hands on with him and his girlfriend. Staveley had gone above and beyond in helping them.

 

What that means in terms of loyalty I’ve no idea, Gordon strikes me as a bit of a lad with a plan. If that involves playing for his boyhood team and they come calling, who knows. Let’s hope they don’t.

 

Having said that, my brother knows Lee Clark and was told that a deal involving Bobby coming back was one of many options the club had considered. Not sure how many bevvies Lee had had at this point.

That goes against everything Gordon has said about moving up here. He said he felt at home immediately and loved it here instantly.

[LionOfGosforth]

13 minutes ago, Coffee_Johnny said:

Well we’ve, very predictably, had Bruno, Isak and Gordon scaremongering. That’s probably it for now. Hopefully the real stories get an airing now. 

 

Doesn't seem to happen around any other club to the extent we get it. I don't see clubs "circling around" for Saka or Odegaard, or "prepared to swoop" for Watkins or Bailey or any of the cartel 6s' best players. Our players get consistently sold in the media and it's gone back decades, not a recent thing.

[Beth]

8 minutes ago, Tsunami said:

Gordon really struggled when he first moved up here. The club (and Staveley personally) have been completely hands on with him and his girlfriend. Staveley had gone above and beyond in helping them.

 

What that means in terms of loyalty I’ve no idea, Gordon strikes me as a bit of a lad with a plan. If that involves playing for his boyhood team and they come calling, who knows. Let’s hope they don’t.

 

Having said that, my brother knows Lee Clark and was told that a deal involving Bobby coming back was one of many options the club had considered. Not sure how many bevvies Lee had had at this point.

Signing Bobby Clark would be totally nonsensical, he's miles away from ever being a top 4 player.

[Tsunami]

10 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

That goes against everything Gordon has said about moving up here. He said he felt at home immediately and loved it here instantly.

He’s going to say that publically. He’d had a tough time at Everton and became a young dad a few months after joining us. My info is iron clad here. 

[Tsunami]

8 minutes ago, Beth said:

Signing Bobby Clark would be totally nonsensical, he's miles away from ever being a top 4 player.

That right? I’ll make sure my brother lets Lee know that his highly rated 19 year old son isn’t going to make it at the top 4 club he currently plays for. 

[McCormick]

5 minutes ago, Tsunami said:

That right? I’ll make sure my brother lets Lee know that his highly rated 19 year old son isn’t going to make it at the top 4 club he currently plays for. 

Christ, I hope Vlachodimos‘s friend’s brother isn’t on the forum too.

[KaKa]

10 minutes ago, Tsunami said:

That right? I’ll make sure my brother lets Lee know that his highly rated 19 year old son isn’t going to make it at the top 4 club he currently plays for. 

 

He's really highly rated isn't he? Bit of a wonder kid apparently.

 

Has already featured for their first team and scored for them too I think.

 

Would be a good club homegrown midfield replacement for Anderson.

[The Prophet]

Mark Douglas' take...

 

DID THEY REALLY CONTEMPLATE SELLING ANTHONY GORDON?

 

It depends who you ask. Insiders say the communication with Liverpool over Gordon last week was more “testing the market” for their player of the year, assessing the sort of price he could command, than coming up with a formal proposal or forcing him out of the door.

 

They have been honest about the need for player trading and the fact that everyone in their squad has a price so doing due diligence around one of their most saleable assets when they had a pressing PSR issue was responsible.

 

But it is also alarming that Gordon’s name was being floated a week before a deadline they had known about for months given his huge importance to the way Newcastle play at their best. Liverpool certainly believed there was a deal to be done – indeed sources on Merseyside confirmed the offer over the weekend, indicating it was “not for us” because they had too many wingers.

[Sibierski]

1 hour ago, LionOfGosforth said:

This is one lingering rumor I really wish would fuck off.

Just going to be there till we slap him down on a new deal. If his agent got any sense, he’ll be jumping on this shit talk to get that new deal pushed through to more favourable terms.

[The Prophet]

Romano has said there was an enquiry, but Liverpool had no intention of coming near our asking price and it went no further. 

 

Just Edwards running with this then.

[andycap]

He'll stay he's happy here we are bringing the best out of him and he's adored by the masses. 

[The College Dropout]

33 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

Mark Douglas' take...

 

DID THEY REALLY CONTEMPLATE SELLING ANTHONY GORDON?

 

It depends who you ask. Insiders say the communication with Liverpool over Gordon last week was more “testing the market” for their player of the year, assessing the sort of price he could command, than coming up with a formal proposal or forcing him out of the door.

 

They have been honest about the need for player trading and the fact that everyone in their squad has a price so doing due diligence around one of their most saleable assets when they had a pressing PSR issue was responsible.

 

But it is also alarming that Gordon’s name was being floated a week before a deadline they had known about for months given his huge importance to the way Newcastle play at their best. Liverpool certainly believed there was a deal to be done – indeed sources on Merseyside confirmed the offer over the weekend, indicating it was “not for us” because they had too many wingers.

I said the same thing earlier today. 
 

If not for the surprising emergence of Minteh - we would’ve had to go begging to Chelsea and co. got favourable shady deals or sell Gordon or the like.   That’s baaaad man. 
 

I said it before that Minteh deal is 70% great talent spotting and 30% luck.  No club would model that a 19-year-old would 4x his value in 12 months. 

[The Prophet]

2 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

I said the same thing earlier today. 
 

If not for the surprising emergence of Minteh - we would’ve had to go begging to Chelsea and co. got favourable shady deals or sell Gordon or the like.   That’s baaaad man. 
 

I said it before that Minteh deal is 70% great talent spotting and 30% luck.  No club would model that a 19-year-old would 4x his value in 12 months. 

 

I'm not sure we would have.

 

The sale of Anderson may well have been enough.

[The College Dropout]

1 minute ago, The Prophet said:

 

I'm not sure we would have.

 

The sale of Anderson may well have been enough.

The Anderson sale is a farce tbf. It’s proof that we weren’t sufficiently prepared. Scot some balance - over a quarter of the league weren’t prepared either. 

[The Prophet]

1 minute ago, The College Dropout said:

The Anderson sale is a farce tbf. It’s proof that we weren’t sufficiently prepared. Scot some balance - over a quarter of the league weren’t prepared either. 

 

Why is it proof we weren't prepared?

 

For all we know, we're so well stocked in LCM, he could have been identified as a sacrificial lamb.

[J7]

The Anderson sale was a pretty obvious one to do I thought. Along with Longstaff, it’s been talked about for months. 

[Vinny Green Balls]

10 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

 

Why is it proof we weren't prepared?

 

For all we know, we're so well stocked in LCM, he could have been identified as a sacrificial lamb.

I think more proof that we weren’t prepared would be an actual purple player. Not someone “who can do a job”.

 

i don’t know why some appear to be so desperate to make this out to be a travesty.

 

 

Edited July 1, 2024 by Vinny Green Balls

[Matt1892]

The BBC are again repeating the story of us offering Gordon to Liverpool with Quansah coming the other way, that Liverpool rejected.

 

There is no reason to believe they are lying about it, they are not click bait journalists on Twitter but a publicly owned media outlet. 
 

They have even reached out to us for comment.

[madras]

Just now, Matt1892 said:

The BBC are again repeating the story of us offering Gordon to Liverpool with Quansah coming the other way, that Liverpool rejected.

 

There is no reason to believe they are lying about it, they are not click bait journalists on Twitter but a publicly owned media outlet. 
 

They have even reached out to us for comment.

And if you respond, the next time, if you don't, it condemns you.

[STM]

6 minutes ago, Matt1892 said:

The BBC are again repeating the story of us offering Gordon to Liverpool with Quansah coming the other way, that Liverpool rejected.

 

There is no reason to believe they are lying about it, they are not click bait journalists on Twitter but a publicly owned media outlet. 
 

They have even reached out to us for comment.

 

They base alot of their reporting from what other journalists say or what they are told by whoever talks to them. It's no different to other football journalists... apart from that they don't knowingly lie. Doesn't mean they are correct.

[Matt1892]

1 minute ago, madras said:

And if you respond, the next time, if you don't, it condemns you.

The privately owned media I would say yes, the publicly owned media no.

 

As I said, they are not interested in click bait material or the latest transfer scoop. If anything their football coverage on the website is bland as they don’t write an article on anything without having it verified. 
 

They would likely have been told this by Liverpool, which the BBC believe is enough to make it factual and have given us the right to respond, which we don’t appear to have done.

[Matt1892]

Just now, STM said:

 

They base alot of their reporting from what other journalists say or what they are told by whoever talks to them. It's no different to other football journalists... apart from that they don't knowingly lie. Doesn't mean they are correct.

What are you going by to say it isn’t correct?

[STM]

Just now, Matt1892 said:

What are you going by to say it isn’t correct?

 

I'm not saying it is or it isn't. Neither do you. 

[Dr Venkman]

46 minutes ago, Vinny Green Balls said:

I think more proof that we weren’t prepared would be an actual purple player. Not someone “who can do a job”.

 

i don’t know why some appear to be so desperate to make this out to be a travesty.

 

 

 

Questions, Chuck, askin em.