Guesswork over Gordon on repeat

TWELVE months on from the whirlwind of speculation surrounding Anthony Gordon’s future at Newcastle United and those Euro 2024 Liverpool links, here we are again with the left-sided forward subject to Sunday headlines on a possible Toon exit.

- By LEE RYDER Chief Newcastle writer [e-mail] @lee_ryder

Gordon’s season was ticking along nicely on Tyneside until a red card against Brighton and Hove Albion cost him a place in the Carabao Cup final and the chance to face his boyhood favourites at Wembley. Instead, Gordon had to watch on from the stands.

He did pick up his season again but wasn’t able to add to his nine goals and seven assists for the season and his form never fully hit the heights we had previously seen.

Gordon’s big problem was getting past Harvey Barnes, who ended the season strongly and grasped his opportunity with the ex-Everton man banned for three games.

And so on to the summer with the Scouser again linked with Liverpool, this time for £100m according to a Sunday tabloid across the weekend. Could that happen? The story was the first Newcastle chiefs had heard of it when pressed yesterday.