Anthony Gordon

Anthony Gordon has been a regular rather than a rotation option for Newcastle United in the Premier League, making 26 appearances and starting 24. Six league goals is a solid return from left wing, but the wider picture is more striking: he has added one in the FA Cup and 10 in 12 Champions League matches, suggesting his value this season has been tied as much to high-impact European output as domestic consistency. Three yellows and one red add a small disciplinary cost to an otherwise central attacking role.

Gordon's path has been relatively direct: Everton academy, a Preston North End loan, then a major Premier League move to Newcastle. The season-by-season goal record points to a player whose output rose after the move – 11 goals in 2023–2024, then six in each of the next two listed league seasons – while his current European scoring spike gives the profile a higher ceiling than his early Everton years suggested.

The transfer record shows a conventional development route until the step up in 2023. Everton sent Gordon to Preston North End on loan in February 2021, recalled him that summer, and then sold him to Newcastle United for a fee listed at 45,000,000 in January 2023. That fee, followed by a listed market value of €65.00m, suggests the move has held up in valuation terms rather than looking like a peak-price purchase.