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I think Gordon will play a lot over the rest of the season, likely on the left side. He’s a target we’ve clearly been tracking since the summer but the price was too high then, all of our long term/well scouted targets have hit so far which makes me trust that Gordon will be a good fit. Like anyone I don’t want to really judge him based on the performances I’ve seen because I think Lampard is a fucking joke of a manager, it’s like rating the players under Bruce tbf - so I’m happy to wait and see how he does for us but I’m excited we’ve brought another player in. I don’t give a flying fuck what the Everton fans opinions are on him tbh.

Sky committing to it too so looks to be done.

Dyche would probably be a good appointment for them, he’s the level of manager that suits Everton imo a bottom half PL manager for a bottom half PL side. They’ve been pretending they’re something else with some recent managers who still barely could get them into the top half so it’s nice to see they’re getting an appropriate manager, the same way Allardyce and Martinez suited them. Hopefully they go down as it’s more than needed for that club, their fans for whatever reason think they’ve been relevant in the PL era simply because they hung around the league, hopefully they stay down for a good while too but I’d assume their owners will carry on pumping shit loads of money into their club as they’ve done for years now. It would be best if they got a new owner like Ashley once they went down as similar to Dyche that’s the type of owner that second rate community club should have.

I think it’ll be new contract or hair colour aye.

I honestly hope some of them are taking the fucking piss but sadly I don’t think they are.

Apparently they’d demanded he turn up today after trying to cover for it the first day or so. There’s a good chance he was promised a move after the summer and Everton now trying to play hardball again with a good offer on the table is forcing his hand.

Two sides with fucking mountains of cash and pull, who could go after and possibly sign a ton of players in football have chosen to go after Anthony Gordon - at some point maybe they should think he might actually be decent? They can dress it up in their head that he’s similar to Watmore or whatever shite player they thought showed form but the thing is no one ever come in for him. He’s Evertons best performing player over the last two seasons, as much of a basket case as Everton are they’re still miles ahead of the mackems. Additionally the geniuses that are slating Gordon also wrote pages and pages about how shite Botman, Burn, Trippier, Pope, Guimeraes, and Isak were.

I love how much we are getting under people’s skin. Everton are welcome to this bigger club than Newcastle if it means something to them but sorry Jordan’s points are shite, the won things argument is decent but the counter point is the last time they won anything was 27 years ago? So basically any active player that remembers them winning it will be close to retirement, so let’s not pretend they’re overflowing with silverware. The whole “never been relegated” stuff is completely overstated, in that time in the PL they’ve achieved nothing they’ve finished 4th once and other than that have had a couple of spells in the Europe League, just loitering around the league doesn’t make them big. The point about our owners is weird, as that applies to every club in the league you’re whinging about fans saying they identify with their club again not about Newcastle. As I say I’m not bothered who is bigger, it’s irrelevant. To any current footballer we are the bigger draw and that’s what matters.

This is literally the type of thing managers come out with when playing top sides, essentially saying they’re simply too good for us to deal with but we tried to stay in the game. We’re obviously really shit though.

Again just fucking absurd by their lot, many comparing Diallo to him - worth mentioning that whatever some think of Gordon him and Diallo are similar age and Gordon so far has attracted £60m bids from Chelsea, and real strong interest by us - a team that whatever the mackems think has massive draw now so we have a lot of options and he’s seemingly our number one, compared to Diallo who has played half a season in the Championship, Manchester United have had precisely no desire to bring him back and he’s had no interest besides Sunderland. I’m sure the kid is a talented player but Manchester United also paid around £40m for him iirc and he’s far and away more unproven than Gordon at this point - it also further underlined how misguided their point is when the main player they’re trying to compare him to isn’t some diamond they unearthed for cheap but a bloke that cost similar to what we are bidding for Gordon.

So his best case scenario is we win the league cup and they win the FA cup? He wouldn’t prefer to win the FA Cup and us to go out to Southampton? Do they fucking engage their brains while making up these weird imaginary scenarios, or is it just drivel on autopilot? Why is he even acting like them winning the FA Cup is some plausible scenario, they’re only in the 4th fucking round they need to win 5 more rounds to win the thing. It’s absolutely barmy, it’s like us saying “I seyz to me mam imagine if they got promoted in the play offs next seyyyson and we won the Champions leyyyug? Tha would be the best fing eva”, it’s so fucking weird they got promoted and are a middling championship side which is good for them given where they are but they’re acting like they’d pump a side 3rd in the premier league that are currently the best defensive unit in the top 5 European leagues and among the highest scorers in the Premier League. It’s just ridiculous, they even have the brass neck to call us deluded in the same posts

Aye has to be an old link, Chelsea have Hudson-Odoi, Mount, Ziyech, Fofana, Pulisic, Lukaku, Aubameyang, Joao Felix, Mudruyk, Sterling, Broja, Madueke, Havertz, and Nkuku (signing in summer) as forwards on their books, so that’s 14 with at least 9 of them currently registered in a 25 man squad, I know they’re mad but they surely won’t go for another forward player . Their focus looks to be back on Enzo Fernandez, honestly though at the point Chelsea are at, and given where we are/our trajectory there’s surely going to be some players in Gordon’s position that would pick us over them as the playing time alone would be a huge difference.

So that blokes evidence that they are better than most the PL is that they beat a side who weren’t good enough to be in the PL? I’m happy for them to keep thinking this is all some huge fluke, as it’ll just make it even harder for them to deal with as we stay at this level and even kick on. It looks like we could be in the first final we’ve been in for fucking donkeys years and all they’re bothered about is Trafalgar Square and outrage at Murphy for waving at a player who committed an outrageous foul and proceeded to shove, grab and scream at our players aye Jacob Murphy was definitely the problem in that scenario. It’s interesting that the whole of the Premier League has suddenly become absolutely shit at football the exact time we got new owners, a new manager, and claim to have turned things around. It’s also weird that in the cups it’s all PL sides at the end of the tournament, given they are all shite and lower league sides are definitely better. I look forward to possibly being in Europe next season as I’m going to make a wild prediction that this bizarre coincidence will also be inflicted upon the top sides across Europe “Real Madrid are shite now marra, Stewie would put five past them looking at them tonight FTM marra we’d be the best team in yooorup”. They’ve lost it.

What League is his shit club even in? Nice to see they’ve got more friends though, Lower league friends. Bunch of losers.

Agree with this, I don’t rate him based off what I’ve seen but fully trust Ashworth, Howe etc so if they see a player I’m in full support. Some of his stats this season compared to other attacking mids/wingers and that aligns with what AgentAxeman says, clearly hard working and a good presser. I think while his offensive stats are weak he’s scored 3 of Evertons 15 goals and I don’t imagine they have a ton of opportunities for him to show that side of his game. We will see I guess, but they’ve not really missed so far with their first choice players (Wood I saw more as a bit of a panic buy/quick fix).

Brilliant post. Some of the misses tonight were appalling in a performance I am buzzing about, I thought we went away to a resurgent side and were comfortably the better side but some of the chances missed were staggering - mostly by Joe, Willock, and Longstaff. All extremely hard working and put in good performances but as you point out that type of finishing is now a regular issue and Howe simply needs investment to raise the quality of finish, to be fair to Joelinton he had two goals (absolutely fucking nowt wrong with the one ruled off) but there was also a number of brutal misses. Longstaff is the most interesting one for me as I think it’s really exciting to see how many really good shooting chances he gets, while he has been missing a lot the exciting bit is whenever we do get a higher quality striker of the ball in that role they’re going to score some amount of goals. Isak looks magic btw, he cut them to bits as if they were nowt. Pope is simply a brick wall, genuinely staggered at how good a keeper he is. The comments from the mackems are hilarious btw, fucking no idea how they can all watch that and say we parked the bus and got lucky

They’re the same as mackems tbh, they love Lampard because he throws his hands up and blames players and they just follow that. Gordon was the best young talent in England according to the same fan base 6 months ago (again same as the mackems whenever a youth player has a good game), maybe he has been shite but who could blame him? Their fanbase blockaded his car and angrily confronted him after a game I’m not sure I’d show much desire to stay around and help as a 21 year old. If our recruitment staff decide to get Gordon, and we sign him then I trust them especially over a bunch of bitter scouse mackems. They need relegated honestly, it’ll be good for the league to get rid of another club that does absolutely fuck all besides linger round the bottom half.

They surely can’t think that was a pen, I saw a replay of the incident on Twitter and he’s clearly miles outside the box - you’d take it obviously but how could you be remotely angry at people saying it’s not a pen.

Big dominant game from the new Michael Carrick in this one.

While I don’t rate Gordon I’m warming to the idea because it’ll be fucking immense to pluck him from Everton and watch their heads melt.

Similar to the Spurs wankers are these bellends. Spent the most in the league over the last decade, just spent mental money this past summer but they complain about their owners. I saw a discussion recently when the spending was brought up and the response was “but that’s the clubs money, the Glazers don’t spend their own” isn’t this exactly what we were accused of wanting Ashley to do?

They’re tragic, let them have it as it’ll only make them even fucking angrier when it inevitably goes tits up. Hope they enjoyed winning the nappy ripper derby, it’s the only one they’re going to get for the foreseeable.

Agreed, that’s why I feel we need more quality in the forward positions, especially left wing.