2020/21 Anthony Gordon

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Lanolin said:
You can see that he’s a good footballer. One of the things I really don’t like about the criticism unsworth gets is it’s very clear that all the recent young players to come into the side are really well coached. They know how to play the game, they work hard, they can cover different positions etc. The issue is that none of them have so far shown that they’ve got the natural ability to be any more than a decent squad player. At the moment, the same applies to Gordon. He’s got plenty of time to show more, but right at this moment he just doesn’t look to have enough to his game to cause teams problems at this level. He’s neat and tidy and you wouldn’t cringe seeing his name on the team sheet, but I think it’s pretty easy to see why he doesn’t get picked more often.
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I've never really understood the aversion to Unsworth to be honest. Its partly down to unrealistic expectations of how many lads should be passed up. Partly down to 1 or 2 people on social media who in my view think their view of running a club is the only way, and where deviation occurs it has to be wrong. They have influence for sure. I think hes ok. But crucially Brands likes him. So really you cant slate Unsworth while praising Brands.

You are right in Gordon, he fits in and knows his responsibility with and without the ball. I think he has special attributes, his speed and character ge if direction are exceptional, he has good vision and a good shot. He also has a knack of scoring scruffy goals. It's quite a "package". He just doesn't put it together yet consistently. At 20, not many do. He can do more than lots of others can though.

We are not going to be giving him 30+games to hone his skills though, like we did under Martinez. He will play when he is ready to.show his best consistently. To a degree it's the transition from being a mid table team to one that sees itself differently. Ancelotti is ahead of that curve.

Gordon did very well in lockdown, but he was at times a shining light in a terrible performance. That is not going to be the basis he is selected on. He will either live up to the expectations on him, or not make it. I'm glad we now have a manager who has those expectations.

The same for Brainthwaite, Kean, Nkounkou etc. If they wont respond to that challenge, they will never be top 4 players anyway.
 
Expected Anthony Gordon to take his chance yesterday and do a bit more than he did. I didn't think he was terrible during the Sheffield game, just thought he may have played like he had a point to prove to the manager; which was pretty much what Bernard did when he replaced him.
 
Turns out Carlo is a world class manager. I got frustrated during that barren run, was sure Gordon would improve us immeasurably, sorry Carlo
 

catcherintherye said:
I've never really understood the aversion to Unsworth to be honest. Its partly down to unrealistic expectations of how many lads should be passed up. Partly down to 1 or 2 people on social media who in my view think their view of running a club is the only way, and where deviation occurs it has to be wrong. They have influence for sure. I think hes ok. But crucially Brands likes him. So really you cant slate Unsworth while praising Brands.

You are right in Gordon, he fits in and knows his responsibility with and without the ball. I think he has special attributes, his speed and character ge if direction are exceptional, he has good vision and a good shot. He also has a knack of scoring scruffy goals. It's quite a "package". He just doesn't put it together yet consistently. At 20, not many do. He can do more than lots of others can though.

We are not going to be giving him 30+games to hone his skills though, like we did under Martinez. He will play when he is ready to.show his best consistently. To a degree it's the transition from being a mid table team to one that sees itself differently. Ancelotti is ahead of that curve.

Gordon did very well in lockdown, but he was at times a shining light in a terrible performance. That is not going to be the basis he is selected on. He will either live up to the expectations on him, or not make it. I'm glad we now have a manager who has those expectations.

The same for Brainthwaite, Kean, Nkounkou etc. If they wont respond to that challenge, they will never be top 4 players anyway.
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Psg first teamer, former juve starlet Kean?
 
Didn’t do too bad last night, was a tough ask up against a wing back and a right centre back. Thought he did well getting back and helping the team when he needed to.

It probably suited Bernards game being able to come inside into space, would have liked to have seen Gordon do that but he stuck more to the wing and when Godfrey did get forward it got really congested out there.

Bernard does seem to be better coming off the bench, so wouldn’t surprise me to see the same again against City
 
If he plays again let him and Iwobi swap side. He can run with the ball on the right and Iwobi on the left can cut inside, if things aren’t going well.
 
Bigduke1234 said:
Turns out Carlo is a world class manager. I got frustrated during that barren run, was sure Gordon would improve us immeasurably, sorry Carlo
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Same with the Nkounkou MUST play at left back. Why isnt Carlo playing the only left back at the club.
Clean sheet after clean sheet later.
They've disapeared.
 

Country Mac said:
You’d have thought Ancelotti was leaving out Messi the way people were going on. Loan him out and give him some regular football.
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Think will keep Bernard till next summer at this point. Gordon needs minutes to develop maybe a loan in Jan will do him good.
 
Seeing Premier League under 23s like Man City and the Kopites being knocked out of that phoney cup that we didn't enter by League 1 and 2 sides shows there isn't the amount of young talent out there that we'd like to believe
 

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