Its not weird he is just being honest, there are a lot of red tinted glasses in this thread. Salah is a better player than Rashford, does that mean I don't support Rashford? Gakpo was more productive than Antony last season that's a fact. With him having had half a season with the scouse plus pre season he is probably going to be even better for them.
Gakpo had 3 more EPL goals more in 4 games less while being a forward with the same amount of assists as Antony. That’s the same Antony who we are told is wasteful and that’s weirdly comparing two players who play in completely different positions.
The only reason to compare the two is to make a point. You can’t compare Gakpo to a number 9 because we really didn’t have any last season and Rashford shits all over him so let’s pick Antony out of the hat. Even Martial has 1 goal less than Gakpo with the same amount of assists in almost half his minutes.
Gakpo isn’t even that impressive. He may well end up so but the striker brought in to save their season only to get a goal every 3 games as their CF tells us more about Nunez than Gakpo.
I could go in the Nunez thread for about 3/4 of last season and find the same posters trying to make the same points. They’ve just moved in to Gakpo for some strange reason