Newcastle United insisting on full Anthony Gordon valuation with zero pressure to sell

Newcastle United are now set to sell Anthony Gordon.

After three and a half years at the club, the former Everton winger to move on.

It had been heavily rumoured Newcastle United could be set to sell one of their star players this summer to help give them as much flex as possible within the financial rules, in order to do major team/squad strengthening.

As time has gone on, it has increasingly become clear that Anthony Gordon is someone who the club are seemingly prepared to trade.

This has now moved on another notch with well publicised meetings taking place between Gordon’s agents and interested clubs, talks having now taken place with Bayern Munich and Barcelona.

Indeed, yesterday (Tuesday 5 May) brought a report from Sky Germany, where they said contract terms on a five year deal had now been made by Bayern Munich to Anthony Gordon, with the intention to agree those terms and then negotiate with Newcastle United on the transfer fee.

With Gordon’s agents having these very public meetings with interested clubs, it can only be surely due to Newcastle United giving the go ahead for talks to take place. By allowing talks to be held with interested clubs, United obviously hoping this will help ensure they get the maximum possible money for the 25-year-old. Just as importantly, get a deal sorted early on and then plan accordingly to use the money to help bring in the targets Eddie Howe wants for next season. It had been previously reported that if he was to move this summer, Anthony Gordon himself wanted to get a deal sorted before the World Cup finals which are now only five weeks away.

The Newcastle United owners made a total hash of summer 2025, refusing to sell Alexander Isak and then doing a u-turn on deadline day. This totally sabotaged Eddie Howe’s pre-season preparations and having lost his two strikers (Wilson and Isak), their replacements arrived at the very end of the summer 2025 window, weeks after the season had started and zero pre-season with their new NUFC teammates.

So what about the transfer fee?

Every single transfer story in any foreign media about any Newcastle United player potentially leaving, they without fail always have a ridiculously low valuation. Normally based on what NUFC originally paid and/or the rubbish online sites that they quote who ‘specialise’ in making up transfer values of all players based usually on a stupid algorithm, largely based on last time they were sold.

Throughout last season, the media on the continent would regularly claim Alexander Isak was going to move to one of their clubs, such as PSG or Barcelona. However, when it came to the supposed valuation of the player they would always talk about a figure far closer to the £63m Newcastle United signed Isak for in August 2022 after he had scored only six league goals for Real Sociedad the previous season, rather than the £100m+ valuation reality that the striker had turned into after proving himself over a number of seasons in the Premier League (the £130m that Liverpool eventually paid!).

We see the same with say Italian media when they fantasise about Sandro Tonali returning to a Serie A club, referring to a supposed £55m valuation (which NUFC paid for him back in summer 2023) or close to that, rather than accepting that his true valuation has soared due to his time at Newcastle. Exactly the same to be honest with media in the UK in many cases, just look at when Lewis Hall or Tino Livramento are speculated on, transfer nonsense spewed out that talks more of the level of transfer fees that Newcastle paid for them as inexperienced kids, rather than the excellent England internationals they have turned into under Eddie Howe’s guidance.

In the case of Anthony Gordon, the Spanish and German media now going on about the Newcastle United winger supposedly not worth more than £60m, even no more than £50m. Well they wouldn’t even be having talks with the agents if these clubs thinking that was going to be their top bid.

Newcastle agreed a £45m (initial £40m plus £5m in potential future add-ons) with Everton back in January 2023 as a 21 year old who had played not many games up to that point.

Three and a half years later, Anthony Gordon is a first choice England international, he is Newcastle’s top scorer this season with 17 goals so far, he has shown he can play through the middle as well as both wings, has especially impressed in the Champions League and so on.

I think he will end up leaving Newcastle United for £80m+ and is worth it.

Yes, Newcastle United DID sell Alexander Isak in the end BUT only because Liverpool gave them more far more money than any Premier League club had ever paid for a player before!

Newcastle United will 100% keep Anthony Gordon if no club offers the right money.

What is for sure as well, is that Newcastle United are under zero contract pressure to sell below their valuation. He still has over four years left on his current NUFC deal and so fantasy figures in German and Spanish media of a £50m-£60m transfer fee are laughable.

The whole idea of Newcastle United selling one of their key players would be with the intention of getting the kind of transfer fee that would then make a huge difference to their ability to invest in new signings of their own. Selling one of their best players on the cheap would make no sense whatsoever.

This is how Newcastle United contracts currently look (via official club releases and media reports), when current deals are up:

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