Anthony Gordon

Uh, Raphinha with 11.

Lamine Yamal, Anthony Gordon, uh, w- with the assists.

Look, you can-

They've played a lot of the weaker teams though

Mm-hmm.

But he's taken that model, uh, hasn't really, well, he has added to it in a sense.

He's brought Anthony Gordon and Adeyemi.

Now, if you'd have said to, to, to us last year, "Barcelona are gonna sign Adeyemi from Dortmund and, and Anthony Gordon from Newcastle, and that's gonna somehow make the squad better and help make them better, and Raphinha's gonna go and play striker," you'd be, "They're stupid.

It's a different country.

Not everybody, like an Anthony Gordon or even Kylian Mbappé, you know, can speak Spanish already when you arrive and, and would fit in straight away and settling in straight away.

So I don't know, but w- I think we all thought after what happened at Villa last season, this was a key summer-

Yeah

But what you see from this Barcelona side, with Rafinha effectively playing as kind of a nominal number nine, Gabriel Jesus can play across that forward line, as can pretty much all of this team.

Adeyemi, Anthony Gordon, all of them are useful in multiple positions.

And so when you put it in the context of where they are, I think that Hansi Flick has looked you know, with what he has available to him, they clearly couldn't get the number nine that they wanted through the door.

And he's gone, you know what? Maybe we don't need to be playing with that out and out number nine.

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lost? Who have they lost? Bruno

Guimaraes, Anthony Gordon, Tenali.

Those are three massive, massive players.

Massive players.

Then Newcastle closed the doors because they already sold in the summer transfer window so many important players.

They made very good profit from Tonali to Anthony Gordon, Bruno Guimaraes, so they didn't need and they didn't want to sell any other players.

So that's why the Luis Sol deal didn't happen.

Now he signed a new contract.

For sure he had possibility in Turkey, but he didn't want to go to any Turkish club at this stage of his career.

So nothing really happened in July and in August in terms of concrete conversations, concrete negotiations.

Again, Barcelona were probably the most likely destination in April, in May, before they decided to say, OK, we stop the conversation, we go for Anthony Gordon.

But since that moment, Marcus Rashford already had a conversation with Michael Kerrick.

Sure.

After we went one-nil up with Anthony Gordon's goal, which was a brilliant goal, right?

Yeah, yeah.

He was paid for those 35 minutes.

I'm going to put...

Barnes on the right bear with me now because I earlier I was going to I was going to bring Baz Tory into the team but I think I'm going to have him on the bench now again I'm putting I'm putting MFP on the left wing and I know we bought him as a striker he wants to play as a striker but I just think this is maybe what I do more so than what MJ will do I'm putting Willock in the number 10 okay and I'm putting Wiese up top because we don't have a Sula, we obviously don't have a Lange either and this is what I'm going with because then they could switch as well Fernandes Pardo and Wiese at times and it's just I think we get something more from I think Fernandes Pardo would eventually grow into that kind of number nine but I don't know if he's just ready for it yet because I remember when I was talking about him saying that we should sign him it was kind of as a Gordon replacement who could potentially go on to play up top or kind of do that kind of ESAC role let's say but I don't know about putting him in there straight away and I think then having Willock there would offer more to the midfield a bit more to the midfield than Wiese would do like for the back and having the attacking abilities.

So that's why I switched it this way.

And I'm having Barnes on the right, even though Barnes has an excellent job and has been on the left.