2022/23 Anthony Gordon

[Colonel Getafe]

I know you can't judge how much players will improve but in terms of how they perform in the Premier league he's better than Salah was at his age like.

For the sake of playing devil's advocate, one could argue Dele Alli was a world-beater at 20. Now he's backup to the likes of Gray, Gordon, McNeil and Rondon. Think we have to go on the here and now.

 

[blue to the bone]

We need to get the best possible deal we can. Push Chelsea are far as we can. They just paid over 60m on a decent but hardly exceptional left back

We need to get it done soon though so we can reinvest It also. Anything around 50 million is a very good deal

 

[navidson]

It’s the precedent it creates and image it projects to. We’ve always sold our best players in the PL era, we however always made sure we got a fair price and then some to compensate, we were always obstinate and “don’t want to sell“. We never sold two of our best players in one window, not to my memory unless it really suited us.

Now it seems systemically the Spurs and Chelsea’s of this world can come and say - let’s just throw them 50 mill and take their best players - be great bench options. What’s more sad is some are more then happy to grab the penny’s that fall from the CL top table.

If we do this, we are admitting we are on the same level of the Palaces of this world - probably worse as they had the gumption of realising what they had in say a Zaha.

The prospect of moving into Bramley Moore Dock with us playing in the Championship is utterly terrifying - and potentially catastrophic for the club

It's hard to be principled when the stakes are so high

 

[Jebus_lives]

Rondon and Gordon are the last real legacy of Benitez - they must be purged

 

[Leylo]

McNeil looks like a squad player to me, hopefully we make a few more signings and he can be an impact player off the bench, or a starter every other game

Looking like a championship player hope I'm wrong

 

[Toff33Blues99]

Fair enough Dave. Sounds like you know more than me.

My own view, FWIW is that Bill is clearly now more involved, and surprise surprise we are back to selling our young players again. I dont think that fella really listens to anyone.

Far to easy for a certain section of our fan base to go to the default of blaming anything negative on Bill, it's ridiculous. KT especially will have a big say on this

 

[Chrismac]

If we dont reach agreement with Chelsea though we may forget all about looking at any of their players on loan this window. They'll 100% be using it as leverage to push this through.

 

[Leylo]

Rondon and Gordon are the last real legacy of Benitez - they must be purged

Wtf

 

[andy4efc]

I can also see lots of stuff Gordon can do but broja can’t. Gordon is the best outlet when it comes to quick counter, fast turnover. Gordon dribbles better. His direct running causes defence to break shape. Something broja will struggle to provide. I don’t see broja as far superior in every aspect of his game. I don’t see why we can’t keep Gordon and sign broja on loan. The desperation to get rid of Gordon is very weird.

But it’s not a straight swap. We would have the expiration that we would replace z Gordon with another and they play different positions so to compare both doesn’t work.

Nobody is desperate for Gordon to be sold but some of us can see this big picture on what doors it COULD open.

 

[Tony1985]

Been out all day and just catching up with this. I’m a big fan of Gordon and love the fact he’s a local lad but if anyone offers us anything north of 45 million I would snap they’re hand off and run.

Maybe do a deal of cash plus Broja or Gallagher or both.

 

[Neiler]

If our best players are never better than Richarlison or Gordon that isn't the worst arrangement.

They won’t be.

*Rhymes with Iwobi.

 

[andy4efc]

You don’t accept the first offers. No club ever dors.

You wouldn’t walk in a car dealers and accept the first offer they make.

 

[JohnRoss23]

Thank goodness we have a well known for investing money wisely!

 

[TheBigIguana]

You don’t accept the first offers. No club ever dors.

You wouldn’t walk in a car dealers and accept the first offer they make.

If I took my car to the dealership tomorrow and they offered 20k I'd sign the papers as fast as I could before they realized they'd screwed up

 

[riddick]

If Lampard is looking at the squad as a whole and thinking that the targets he and Thelwill want to bring in would transform the team whilst minimizing the loss of Gordon, then it's a sound move to shift Gordon. We could bring in 3 players for that money.