Exactly 12 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.
[Gordon's season was ticking along nicely on Tyneside until a red card against Brighton & Hove Albion](https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/that-ship-sailed-80m-newcastle-31835403) 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 as his team-mates were immortalised.
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 on Monday.
As Newcastle look for ways to grapple with PSR, it's a move that can't be fully ruled out, but by the same token, [Eddie Howe has said on numerous occasions he doesn't want to sell his best players.](https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-united-issue-fresh-warning-31773921) It feels a bit strange that in a summer in which Newcastle want to buy a right winger that they'd be prepared to lose the man on the opposite flank to fund it.
For all the talk about Gordon last summer, there were no denials from either club, and it felt like a deal that could be done at one stage especially as Newcastle drifted close to the PSR health check deadline without a solution to get their accounts back in order.
In the end, Newcastle completed deals involving Elliot Anderson, Odysseas Vlachodimos and Yankuba Minteh to get themselves out of a hole.
Liverpool, meanwhile, still have options on that side of the field with Cody Gakpo and Luis Diaz, but the interest has always been there, according to sources close to the player.
It's definitely one to keep an eye on as the window swings open for business again today. We have seen events take a dramatic turn in the past.
If Newcastle can fund a couple of incoming deals at the expense of losing one star, a Gordon exit could be on the cards, especially after CEO Darren Eales has made clear that every player has a price.
The player himself seems happy though, or relatively happy after the season fizzled out for him a bit last term. Gordon also scoffed at talk of the move last autumn when things settled down.
He said to Sky Sports then: "I have heard so much talk this year about my future, where I am going, where I want to go. Without anybody asking me.
"All I have heard is ‘When is he leaving’ which is… who said I was ever going to leave? I am very, very happy here.. I love this place. I love playing football here."
Just over a year ago, it was a transfer that never got off the ground. Newcastle's initial response seems to be that is the case again as things stand.