Liverpool eyeing shock £100MILLION move for Newcastle star Anthony Gordon to take summer transfer spree to almost £300m
Toon could replace Gordon with another England star
GOR BLIMEY Liverpool eyeing shock £100MILLION move for Newcastle star Anthony Gordon to take summer transfer spree to almost £300m
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LIVERPOOL are weighing up a £100million move for Newcastle star Anthony Gordon.
Talks were held last summer over an Anfield switch as Toon looked to bring in cash to satisfy Prem financial rules.
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Anthony Gordon has long been on Liverpool's radar
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Eddie Howe's side are now in much better shape with the balance sheets but could have to fend off more interest from Merseyside for the Scouse winger.
Boyhood Liverpool fan Gordon moved to St James' Park from Everton for £45m in January 2024 and even signed a new contract last October.
He had six goals and five assists in the Prem last season and the Reds have committed to a summer spending spree to bolster Arne Slot's title-winning squad — already bringing in £29.5m Dutch right-back Jeremie Frimpong from Bayer Leverkusen.
His old Bayer pal Florian Wirtz is set to be the next to follow in a British-record £116m deal, while left-back Milos Kerkez is also expected to arrive for £40m from Bournemouth.
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Paris Saint-Germain ace Bradley Barcola is a target but the European champions do not want to lose the Frenchman.
That means that Liverpool could revive a move for Everton academy graduate Gordon, 24.
It comes with uncertainty over the future of Reds forward Luis Diaz.
The Colombian says he is happy at Anfield but revealed he could explore other opportunities this summer — with interest from LaLiga giants Barcelona.
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Liverpool had expressed an interest in Gordon's Toon team-mate Alexander Isak — but were quoted a whopping £150m fee for the red-hot Swedish striker.
And Newcastle could seek a loan move for Manchester City's out-of-favour England winger Jack Grealish should they lose Gordon to another club this summer.
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Reds new-boy Wirtz is set to pocket a mammoth salary at Anfield.
Sky Sports claim that the German will net a whopping £245,000 a week during his Anfield stay - TWELVE TIMES what he earned at the BayArena.
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Florian Wirtz and Jeremie Frimpong are set to light up Anfield next season
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He was the guy that worked out how to get me back." Gordon was given a recommendation to seek guidance from Walker and it clearly paid off. 'It was from Jim Stewart, who had been a goalkeeping coach at Hearts and Scotland, and he was at Rangers at the time," continued Gordon. 'Rangers had already rehabbed a guy with a very similar injury with me. I think it was a Norwegian guy. He didn't really play much in the first team. He went back to Norway, I think, and he'd managed to get him back from a very similar injury. 'He'd come in to see if he could help, and he did. So that would be the guy I would credit with helping the most. I went and got all different injections. I had PRP injections over in Barcelona with the guy that Pep Guardiola sends his players to. I had high volume injections in London. I had all the different treatments I could possibly do to chuck everything at it, but if it's one person, I would say it would be him. 'He was able to devise a programme that enabled me to build up the muscle around my knee to take the load off the tendon. I think it was a kind of unusual injury at the time. I think there's more of them happened since, but he was the one that managed to get the programme that actually worked. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'It was just purely work, long term. It was over a number of months of starting off really slow, of doing a high volume of very low weight exercise to eventually build it up over a really long period of time to get back. 'It might have got better over time, but I gave it everything that I had to get back. Once I realised there was a chance to get back, I poured everything into it to give myself that one last opportunity to get to the bottom of it. If I didn't get back, then I knew I'd given it absolutely everything. 'If I gave it one more go and still couldn't get back, then I would have retired and been at peace with that decision. Until I'd given it everything one last time, I probably would have always wondered if I could have. So between that and the determination to get back, that was the kind of factors that helped." After recovering from injury with the help of Rangers' physio, Craig Gordon signed for Celtic where he won 12 trophies. | SNS Group Why I signed for Celtic not Rangers The irony of the work with the Rangers physio is that once fit. Gordon ended up joining Celtic - where he went on to win 12 trophies. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'Rangers were in League One at the time and they already had two senior goalkeepers," explained Gordon. 'To add another one at that stage probably wasn't financially the right thing for them to do. 'They wanted me to play in a couple of reserve games to prove that I was fit enough to stay. If I had done that, then my injury insurance would have been invalid. So I couldn't do that. That was the reason why that never happened. 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I managed to go in and play 50 games my first season back after not playing for two years, which I didn't know was possible until I managed to do it. 'At certain times as a footballer you've got to be a bit selfish and go and do the thing that's best for you, and that was the best thing for me, for my career, to play at the highest level. 'Rangers took another three years to come to the Premier League, so I managed to get those three years playing in the Premier League and playing for Scotland that perhaps maybe I wouldn't have had. 'It was a difficult thing to do but sometimes you've got to do what's best." Hearts and Scotland will no doubt be delighted with the course of events. Thanks to that spell across both sides of the Old Firm divide, Gordon is still going strong. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad
