A relatively surprising switch hearsay involving Liverpool has emerged over the weekend.
On Sunday, the Every day Star reported (through Every day Specific) that the Reds are eyeing a ‘shock transfer’ for Anthony Gordon, who was just lately named Newcastle’s Participant of the Season and has a valuation of £100m+ at St James’ Park.
The 23-year-old is believed to have caught the attention at Anfield, with LFC chiefs exploring potential targets for this summer season’s switch window, the primary below Richard Hughes’ watch as sporting director.
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Gordon was truly on Liverpool’s books as a boy earlier than being launched after which becoming a member of Everton, the place he graduated via the academy ranks and into the primary crew earlier than a £45m transfer to Newcastle in January 2023.
The winger – who cited Steven Gerrard as his childhood footballing hero – has hit double figures for each objectives and assists within the Premier League this season, and he should’ve finished a lot proper to be deemed the membership’s finest participant forward of 20-goal predator Alexander Isak.
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The sale of a kind of attackers is eminently attainable this summer season, with the Magpies reportedly below strain to promote key belongings with the intention to adjust to Monetary Honest Play rules.
Nevertheless, regardless of loads of footballers representing each of Merseyside’s top-flight golf equipment over time (as our personal Peter Kenny Jones explored intimately in his good e-book Crossing the Park: The Males Who Dared to Play for Each Liverpool & Everton), we’d be very stunned if the Reds transfer for Gordon this summer season.
Nearly as good a season as he’s had, it’d be troublesome to justify a nine-figure switch charge when Michael Edwards and Hughes may absolutely land an attacker of comparable high quality for a extra reasonably priced sum. We wouldn’t be inclined to learn an excessive amount of into this explicit hearsay.
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