Chelsea have been linked with Everton’s Anthony Gordon in a £60m deal that has confused many. Johnny Nic is most baffled as to why he’d move.
Chelsea are thinking of paying Everton a staggering £60million for Anthony Gordon despite having at least half a dozen players in a similar position, but talent hoarding is all part of their model.
If the gangling, still coltish Gordon does go to Chelsea, like many before him, he’ll likely disappear into the blue seas and rarely be seen again, except in League Cup games and dead rubbers.
If he doubts this, there are plenty of examples to prove it.
He only needs to look at Conor Gallagher who couldn’t get a game so went on loan to Crystal Palace and was their Player of the Season. Now back at Chelsea, those blue waters are closing over his head again. After a poor game last week and getting sent off against Leicester, this really talented, exciting, dynamic player will be stuck in the reserves and on the bench, his career on pause, his England opportunities strangled at birth. Another victim of the elite club hoarding instinct. If they think he’s not good enough, just let him go instead of stockpiling him to play every now and then.
He can sit on the bench with Billy Gilmour, another player who, after a poor loan period at Norwich, doesn’t even have a Chelsea squad number, will likely get little first-team football, his talent slowly but surely suffocated as he rots in the reserves. Let him go, too.
Gordon might catch a glimpse of Ethan Ampadu, who signed for Chelsea from Exeter City in 2017 and has played just one Premier League game for the club since and most recently returned from a season-long loan at Venezia after signing another three-year contract at Stamford Bridge, presumably in the hope of playing first-team football at some point.
Despite being a Welsh international, with 36 caps under his belt, although on the bench for Saturday’s game against Leicester, it seems unlikely he will ever play for Chelsea on a regular basis and will probably be loaned out once again. If he doesn’t then welcome to the also-rans, Ethan. Just let him go, as well.
Alternatively Gordon can learn from Ross Barkley, a tremendous prospect for club and country at Everton but who has played in just 58 Premier League games in the five seasons since, frequently as a substitute.
This is his last year of a six-year contract, is now 28 and will struggle to reignite a career that has fizzled out. OK, he picked up…
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