00:00Knowing what we know now about the winger market this summer,
00:02was Anthony Gordon to Barcelona actually great value?
00:06Hear me out, Gordon is 25 years old and reportedly cost Barcelona 70 million euros.
00:11Now, when that transfer went through at the start of the summer,
00:13most people couldn't believe it.
00:1570 million for Gordon.
00:17But Arsenal's hunt for a left winger throughout the summer shows how scarce that market is.
00:21Morgan Rodgers went for 117 million,
00:24Barca at 120,
00:25Cody Gakpo was touted as 80 million,
00:27Mudrick has a buy option for 75 million and Savino costs Spurs 85 million.
00:32Is Gordon really much worse, if at all worse, than most of those players?
00:36I don't think so.
00:37Sure, he might not be as exciting as some of the other wingers I just mentioned,
00:40like Barca and, well, Barca.
00:43But he is a high-functioning, versatile player who is an incredible athlete.
00:47He registered three assists in his first three Barcelona games
00:49and the fact that a team of Barcelona standing was willing to act so quickly for him in the summer
00:54shows how highly he's rated in the football world.
00:56If Gordon hadn't moved so early in the window, where would he have ended up?
01:00Would City or Arsenal have made him their marquee left-wing signing instead of Zolis or Ndi?
01:04Would he have made that move to Liverpool he wanted?
01:06With Anthony Gordon, you know what you're going to get.
01:09And for a top winger, that is valuable.
01:11Just how high a ceiling is in European football, we'll find out this season.
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