In-form Newcastle sign off 2024 at an interesting point in the club’s evolution. They sit fifth and are in the last four of the Carabao Cup, but that does not obscure the fact that at times it has been a sobering year of frustration and uncertainty, the vagaries of the Premier League’s financial fair play regulations checking their progress and making it feel as if everyone in the squad has their price.
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Read MoreCombined with the exit of minority owner Amanda Staveley, who set the tone from the boardroom, it frayed some of the certainties around the club.
Four successive wins have backed up the club’s belief that Eddie Howe is an elite manager and with the team flying again, Gordon believes now is the time to address the notion that Newcastle aren’t a big enough team to retain their star players or compete for honours.
“When we play well it’s like ‘He’s got to move from Newcastle’ but that’s not the reality. We’re fifth in the table, we’re a top club ourselves. It’s a load of rubbish really.”
Anthony Gordon celebrates scoring against Aston Villa (Photo: Reuters)“I think it’s easy (to say things) from the outside to say but we actually live it. We live our lives at the football club,” he says.
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“The project doesn’t really mean much to us, we all want to win now,” he says.
“We’re trying to win now, we’re trying to win Cups now, we’re trying to get back into the Champions League and if we do that then it’ll no longer be called a project will it because it’ll be what we want it to be.”
“My performances are going to say that the best,” he says.
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Read More“I’m here to win a trophy, I’ve got a lot of goals ahead of me before I think about anything else.”
“This period coming up is going to be massive for us because I know these last few games have been really good but it won’t mean much if we don’t carry on, especially away from home which is where we’ve got that challenge in front of us,” he says.
“We’ve got to keep consistency and then with the Cup semi-final afterwards it’s going to be a really interesting run of games.”
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