{"id":617239,"date":"2022-08-31T13:23:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T17:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=617239"},"modified":"2022-08-31T13:23:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T17:23:05","slug":"everton-stay-anthony-gordon-chelsea-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/31\/everton-stay-anthony-gordon-chelsea-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Target Set to Stay With Current Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/David_Ornstein\/status\/1564978843861094401\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Ornstein<\/a> of The Athletic has reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/31\/chelsea-trying-triple-swoop-before-deadline\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea\u2019s<\/a> pursuit of Anthony Gordon has finished. This has come as a result of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/31\/everton-james-garner-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Everton\u2019s<\/a> high asking price for the attacker, who Chelsea do not believe to be worth more than \u00a340 million.<\/p>\n<h2>Anthony Gordon to Stay at Everton<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Final fee in Wesley Fofana from Leicester to Chelsea deal understood to be \u00a369.5m fixed, no add-ons. Also believed that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#CFC<\/a> value Anthony Gordon no higher than \u00a340m so have no interest in going beyond that for Everton attacker @TheAthleticUK <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LCFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#LCFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#EFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bY5HJo5CsL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/bY5HJo5CsL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Ornstein (@David_Ornstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/David_Ornstein\/status\/1564978843861094401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 31, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>No Move for Gordon<\/h3>\n<p>After scoring Everton\u2019s only goal in a 1-1 draw with Leeds United, it looks as if the winger will remain at the club this season. Manager <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1564738963402854401\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frank Lampard<\/a> came out after the game saying he was \u201cvery confident\u201d that Gordon would still be his player at the end of the window. Also adding that a sale at this point would make little sense as he is too important a player for the team to lose.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lampard on Anthony Gordon: \u201cI\u2019m very confident he\u2019ll be our player. Deadline to decide to sell him has passed\u201d. \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udd35 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#EFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s too important a player, he\u2019s shown his worth. What good what it do us to do anything with Anthony now?\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MUF45p8d8I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/MUF45p8d8I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1564738963402854401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>The Gordon Transfer<\/h3>\n<p>After Chelsea\u2019s 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/31\/tottenham-sign-sheffield-united-academy-star\/\" target=\"_self\">Spurs<\/a>, Sky Sports reported on air that the Blues had submitted a bid for Anthony Gordon. This revelation was met with bewilderment from the Sky pundits who at the time felt Chelsea were in greater need of a striker than a winger. Since that moment the links with Gordon never seemed to disappear.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-professional footballer and Sky pundit <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/skysportspl\/status\/1562154876049756160?s=21&amp;t=-ltIaFPQxaIPcwIYypxbew\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alan McInally<\/a> on Soccer Special gave his analysis of the player, mentioning he heard <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/24\/chelsea-new-offer-for-anthony-gordon\/\" target=\"_self\">Gordon wanted to leave<\/a> Everton but suggested the deal made little sense for many reasons. One being that going to Chelsea he would not be a guaranteed starter with the club having a plethora of wide players. He also that this move would not be assured success as better players than he had gone to the club and struggled.<\/p>\n<p>However, whilst stating all this, McInally never criticised him for his ambition. He was much more reserved about the player&#8217;s true ability.<\/p>\n<h3>Gordon to Lead Everton<\/h3>\n<p>Everton have had a poor start in the league so far, failing to win in any of their opening five games. The one positive, however, is Gordon staying. Two goals in his last two games signify the first time in his Everton career he has scored in consecutive games.<\/p>\n<p>Lampard has put his faith in Gordon to lead this team from the front and with the World Cup coming up soon for Gordon it is about continuing this form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Ornstein of The Athletic has reported that Chelsea\u2019s pursuit of Anthony Gordon has finished. This has come as a result of Everton\u2019s high asking price for the attacker, who Chelsea do not believe to be worth more than \u00a340 million. Anthony Gordon to Stay at Everton \ud83d\udea8 Final fee in Wesley Fofana from Leicester [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4217,"featured_media":617256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11,2,3,7188],"tags":[3263,8611,9277],"class_list":["post-617239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everton","category-chelsea","category-featured","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-anthony-gordon","tag-chelsea-transfer-rumours","tag-everton-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}