Newcastle United fans called him Big Joe, a polite title that carried countless scoldings for repeated mistakes, mockery of parallel goods acquisitions, and even when winning the best player interview, the sports reporter even half-jokingly joked that "can I be honest, I have never found you so good". Scoring 11 goals in 99 games is indeed difficult to match the team's all-time transfer fee record of £40 million, but Joelinton's quiet efforts and the well-known position of coach Eddie Howe have transformed the 25-year-old Brazilian player from a parallel shooter into a midfield generator to support the Magpies through the cold winter of December.
Looking back at Jorrington's transfer in the summer of 2019, it is already confusing enough: whether it is in Vienna, Austria or Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga in the first three seasons, the league goals in a single season only hover 7 to 8 goals, but it can attract "miserly" boss Mike Ashley to suddenly be generous and finalize the franchise on the 6th after the arrival of coach Steve Bruce. Ming ming was more in Hoffenheim with partners Andrej Kramari, Adam Szalai or Ishak Belfodil, who were flexible in their positions, but were charged alone by the legendary No. 9 shirt of Alain Shearer, tall but at a loss, and gradually lost confidence in scoring goals after stumbling, as if it were a trial-and-error experiment.
However, Joe Linton's enthusiasm and struggle for training is unquestionable, including the personal appointment of fitness coaches and External FC data analysts to improve performance, so after the Magpies fans calmed down, they generally blamed management, scouting and even the coaching team for drug throwing, until last season's signing of Callum Wilson improved. The more unexpected surprise came from last month's relegation battle against Norwich, central defender Siren Clarke left the field in just 9 minutes, and new coach Eddie Howe was forced to transfer Jorrington to the midfield under the ten-man battle, and his performance of running all over the field made the team seem to discover a new continent, "He can understand the tactics thoroughly, the efficiency and coverage are unmatched, and he also has the technology of finding space and so on." ”
Since then, Eddie Howe has found Jorrington's "instruction manual", guarding the 4-3-3 or 4-5-1 3 midfield, especially monday's 1-1 draw in the Premier League, which broke out, 4 interceptions, 11 regaining possession, 13 dribbling advances, 3 opportunities to win the team, a left-sided attack cleverly through Marcus Rashford is even more amazing, teammate Sean Longstaff also spoke out for his teammates during the above-mentioned controversial visit: "We all know how good Joe Linton is, and it's shameful that all sorts of disrespectful evaluations of him are. He's the best player in every training session and you'll be happy to be his matchmate because you're always going to win. Of course, from the need for Callum Wilson to be on a months-long truce, to the personnel changes in the new boss's sharpened knife hoho's January transfer window, Jorrington's road ahead is still full of variables, but the performance of the recent battle is enough to prove that "heavenly rewards" is not empty talk.