View: Liverpool should recall Kaide Gordon from Norwich loan
Liverpool should recall Kaide Gordon from his underwhelming loan spell at Norwich in January.
The 20-year-old was sent to the Championship club to experience regular first-team football at senior level but it has not worked out.
The promising talent has featured just nine times for the Canaries in the second tier, starting just once and missing 12 games, either as a result of not being in the squad or remaining on the substitutes bench.
He has played a total of 172 minutes, which is simply not good enough for his development and the Reds should recall the former Derby County man.
Liverpool need to end Kaide Gordon loan
For starters, the move is not serving its purpose, to give him regular game time in a higher quality environment than the academy.
Secondly, if he returns before the FA Cup third-round clash with Accrington Stanley, he could add to the seven first-team appearances that he has made for the Anfield club.
Arne Slot has shown that he is willing to give the Merseyside club’s young talents a chance to impress in and amongst the senior squad, with Trey Nyoni handed his first start for the Reds in the EFL Cup win over Southampton (18 December).
Gordon made his debut when starting in an EFL Cup match against Norwich in September 2021 and signed his first professional contract soon after.
He became the club’s youngest-ever goalscorer in the FA Cup in January 2022 against Shrewsbury and started in the EFL Cup semi-final win away at Arsenal the same season.
He signed a new long-term deal after returning from a brutal injury halfway through last season that had kept him out of action for the whole of the 2022/23 season and now needs to kick on if he is to make it at Anfield.
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