Gordon will sign a five-year deal with Barcelona and will be unveiled before the week is out after a deal was agreed with Newcastle late on Wednesday night.
Bayern Munich had been frontrunners to sign Gordon this summer but as the Bundesliga champions hesitated in the hope Newcastle would budge with their valuation, Barcelona struck and a deal was swiftly agreed.
The deal - £69m up-front and a further £8m-plus in add-ons - will see Newcastle pocket a huge profit on the 25-year-old, who they signed for £45m from Everton in 2023, though the Toffees are in line to receive 15 per cent of the profit.
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Liverpool and Arsenal have both long admired Gordon but it's understood the forward's preference was a move abroad and he's in line to double his wages at Barcelona.
While Gordon endured something of an underwhelming and inconsistent league campaign with the Magpies, he still scored 17 goals in all competitions, 10 of them in the Champions League, including one against Barcelona.
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After Gordon starred for Newcastle against Benfica in the Champions League, he revealed Jose Mourinho approached him at full-time and told him he's "too much".
It became increasingly obvious at the end of the Premier League campaign that Gordon was set to depart this summer.
His last Newcastle appearance in the Premier League came in the defeat to Crystal Palace in early April and the forward then missed the following two games with injury. He returned to the squad for the win over Brighton but was an unused substitute for the last four games.
Asked if he was not using Gordon because he had one eye on the future, Eddie Howe said: "When you get to this stage of the season, part of what we will be doing we'll be looking to next year, naturally, so yes.
"Anthony's just come back from injury. I think the team has played well in his absence and with a partial view to the future, yes."
Newcastle chief executive David Hopkinson has been open about the fact the Magpies would have to trade this summer as they look to freshen up their squad.
Hopkinson said Newcastle would only sell on their terms and the Magpies will be pleased Gordon's situation has been resolved so early in the window. Hopkinson has also said Newcastle must learn from last season's Alexander Isak saga, which undoubtedly had a huge knock-on effect and played a major part in United's domestic struggle.
Gordon's Barcelona move will be finalised before he links up with the England squad for the World Cup and he's set to become the sixth member of Thomas Tuchel’s squad at an overseas club, joining Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham, Marcus Rashford, Ivan Toney and Jarell Quansah.
Rashford's future is now unclear, though, after the Manchester United forward spent the season on loan at Barcelona.