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Anthony Gordon will bring different things to Barça.

The first thing you point out is that he is a player

who will allow you to attack spaces, and what does this tempo thing mean?

His timing when arriving is very good, attacking spaces,

not only because he is extremely fast,

we must remember that he is the player who sets,

or who set the highest peak speed

of the entire last edition of the Champions League,

at 34 km per hour.

More than Raphinha, more than Ferran, more than Vinícius, more than Mbappé.

The fastest guy in the Champions League is Anthony Gordon.

The highest peak. 34 km per hour, yes.

He is very fast, he is extremely fast,

he is better technically than people say,

but above all, he has very good timing when arriving.

Tempo is that moment you choose to arrive in the box,

at the precise moment to finish, to avoid being offside,

he has very good timing, he attacks spaces very well,

and Flick surely loves that,

and therefore Barça can benefit a lot from it.

So, the first point is that he is a very fast player,

34 km/h peak speed in the last Champions League,

the fastest player in Europe, and this will allow attacking spaces.

He is a player who presses a lot

and has a high capacity to repeat efforts.

Yes, he presses very well, directs the pressing well,

this speed, this intensity,

he uses it to press high, he's very good.

He averages 2.2 recoveries per game,

which is very high for an attacker,

for example, Raphinha, who we all say is a great presser, has 2.1.

Therefore, this will also be useful for him,

Barça starts from the left, starts from the center,

from wherever it may be to be able to do it, and then that it's a travesty.

That is to say, what Barça is bringing in here is not a different profile,

but rather replicates the same profile, we'll talk about it later,

but the same profile they have with Raphinha, with Ferran.

Therefore, it's a travesty, going into spaces and repeating efforts.

We already explained that Barça had detected

that in certain matches they lacked energy,

high-intensity matches,

especially when they didn't have Raphinha,

and that there was a report from the club's technical staff

highlighting that the podium of players

with the greatest capacity to repeat high-intensity efforts in Europe

were Raphinha, Anthony Gordon, and Barcola.

He is a footballer who scores goals.

For me, he has goals in him, but he doesn't have the numbers of a leading player yet,

that's obvious, but for me, his upward goalscoring trajectory is so clear...

In the last three seasons, he has 12 goals,

9, and 17 this season, with 10 in the Champions League,

and above all, I think he has goals in him

because he shows great determination in his actions.

I mean, obviously, Newcastle doesn't create as much as Barça,

but every time he gets a chance

where he can score, he goes for it with great determination,

so this leads me to think that Barça can double his numbers.

And as we mentioned before, he is a player

who brings versatility and alternatives for Hansi Flick.

Absolutely, and that's what excites me most about his signing,

because if Barça bets on a player for 70 million plus add-ons,

I understand that he's not coming here to be a fourth forward,

so he will be more of a starter than an alternative,

if he is a player who replicates those profiles we mentioned,

this leads me to think that maybe Flick has something in mind,

that there is some change of role for Raphinha,

there is some possibility that we might see Lamine more on the inside,

which allows him things on the tactical board that he wouldn't otherwise,

and the thing is, I really want to see what the coach has planned,

because I think he has something up his sleeve.