Barcelona have already made £69m Anthony Gordon decision after Newcastle United transfer talks leak
Newcastle United transfers: Anthony Gordon has been linked with a move with Barcelona this week.
Newcastle United forward Anthony Gordon could be on the move this summer, with several top clubs interested.
The latest club linked with the 25-year-old is Barcelona after a video surfaced on social media leaking Gordon’s representatives meeting with Barca sporting director Deco.
The England international has also been linked with Bundesliga side Bayern Munich, as well as Arsenal and Liverpool domestically.
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A ‘complicated’ transfer for Barcelona
Now, Barcelona expert and Spanish media personality Gerard Romero has responded to the Gordon transfer speculation.
On his YouTube channel, Romero said: “Obviously, the high price of Newcastle makes the operation quite complicated. But let's see how the whole situation evolves.
“We are in a market that is going to be very long. Newcastle's owners are rich,Newcastle is not rich, because Newcastle has to comply with the rules of the Financial Fair Play.
“The problem Newcastle has is that when Saudi Arabia arrived, they couldn't sell anyone. So when they started signing, they had nothing to compensate for those expenses. They had no income. So Newcastle has problems with Financial Fair Play.”
Newcastle chief executive officer David Hopkinson suggested back in March that major signings this summer would have to be facilitated by player sales. And Gordon, at 25 and on the back of the best scoring season of his career, is viewed as one of the club’s biggest assets to sell.
“It is being said that they might sell Yoane Wissa, who is a footballer who has signed this season,” Romero added. “But Wissa, first point, he signed this season, second point, he has less market value than Gordon, and third point, he is not wanting to leave, as Anthony Gordon is doing.
“So my feeling is that Anthony Gordon will leave, because Newcastle will not cry a lot when he leaves. It is complicated.”
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Barcelona won’t meet NUFC’s asking price
While Romero believes Gordon would be a ‘great signing’ for Barcelona, he believes his club will be priced out of a move.
“I'm going to say something, this is a personal opinion of mine,” he continued. “Gordon would be a great signing. [But] I think that Barça cannot face this transfer.
There is interest. Deco is moving as a sports director has to. I also think he is moving well and for a long time.
From here we will see if it is economically possible. I don't see it as an economic operation right now.
“What price does he have? How much does it cost? The value of the transfer market is €60million [£51.8million] but it is true that some clubs, Bayern and Liverpool, are behind and are willing to offer up to €80million [£69million]. It is a number that Barça will not pay €80million for Gordon.”
It’s understood Newcastle value Gordon at around the £80million [€92.7million] mark, meaning a move to a club willing to come close to that sort of figure is most likely this summer. Gordon’s contract at Newcastle runs until 2030 though Bayern Munich are said to have submitted a concrete five-year proposal for the winger, subject to a fee being agreed.