Anthony Gordon of Newcastle United looks on from the substitutes bench prior to the UEFA Champions League 2025/26 League Knockout Play-off Second Leg match between Newcastle United FC and Qarabag FK at St James' Park on February 24, 2026 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)placeholder image
Anthony Gordon of Newcastle United looks on from the substitutes bench prior to the UEFA Champions League 2025/26 League Knockout Play-off Second Leg match between Newcastle United FC and Qarabag FK at St James' Park on February 24, 2026 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images) | Getty Images
Arsenal are reportedly eyeing a £75million move for Newcastle United winger Anthony Gordon.
Gordon joined the Magpies from Everton for £45million in January 2023 and has gone on to establish himself as a key player for club and country.
The 25-year-old won United’s Player of the Year award at the end of the 2023-24 campaign and is this season’s top scorer with 14 goals, four of which came during last week’s 6-1 win over Qarabag in the Champions League.
As England prepare for this summer’s World Cup, Gordon is a certainty to be on the plane to North America.
Newcastle United respond to Anthony Gordon to Arsenal links
And according to The Sun, Gordon could be changing clubs in the same summer, with Arsenal interested in landing the winger for £75m. The report, however, was met with a spiky response from Newcastle boss Eddie Howe.
“I was hoping that you'd answer it because it's your industry that's creating those stories and for me it's, as I said, I am slightly secluded from it to a degree,” Howe replied when asked why his players were regularly linked with leaving. “If you don't read it, you don't know who's being linked with who.
“Isn't it not just part of modern-day football that everyone's linked with moves these days and not just Newcastle players, but a lot of other clubs potentially have the same issues? I don't know.
“I think it's irrelevant really. I think it's how the players take to that. If the players absorb it and it affects them then of course that's a negative, but I think they will become robust enough to ignore it and concentrate on playing.
“I think these things only come into focus really when windows are open or that's for me when the players should be, if at all, thinking about their futures. Because in the meantime, everything they do in between affects their future and all they can do is play at their best level and that's what I'd encourage them to do.”
“I'm not sure there's a lot I can do about that,” said Howe. “I've not seen the story, so it's news to me. But we're mid-season. We're in the middle of some of the biggest games of his career, and who knows what's going to happen internationally with him in the summer as well.
“He's got no time to look left or right. It's got to be fully focused on straight ahead and the next game and trying to be as good as he can be.
“I've been really impressed with him the last few weeks. I think he's been in a good place, playing in a central position. I think he's done really well.And we want him to continue that good form.”
Anthony Gordon has already addressed Arsenal speculation
Gordon had been loosely linked with Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United before his future hit the back of a national newspaper on Friday.
Speaking last week, Gordon said: “It’s the same old, same old. I haven’t heard anything, they might want to tell me before they tell you (the media).
“I have gone through enough transfer stuff now to know that it is all a load of rubbish. I am focused on me and focused on the team, I am focused on right now.
“You look too far in the future and you start to underperform. And believe me I have done that (before) and I am not going to do that now.”
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