{"id":609892,"date":"2026-05-29T07:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/609892\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T07:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:31:09","slug":"bayern-munich-thought-fc-barcelona-was-bluffing-on-anthony-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/609892\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich thought FC Barcelona was \u2018bluffing\u2019 on Anthony Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Barcelona have made the first major coup of the new season by reaching an agreement to sign Anthony Gordon. The highly-rated Newcastle United winger is set to join the Blaugrana camp in a five-year contract worth around \u20ac70 million, which could reach up to \u20ac80 million if add-ons are met.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Acquiring Gordon\u2019s services was not easy, as Barcelona had to fend off competition from Bayern Munich and Liverpool. According to BILD (h\/t SPORT), Joan Laporta played a crucial role in helping Barcelona beat the likes of Bayern Munich and Liverpool in the race to sign Gordon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">The president-elect at Bar\u00e7a spoke directly to Gordon, convincing him of the club\u2019s plans and project, and how he fits into the scheme of things. This played a crucial role in convincing Gordon. Not to mention, the Englishman also spoke to Hansi Flick, who had a key impact in the deal as well. All of these factors favoured Barcelona as they were able to advance fast and beat Bayern Munich to the chase, even though the Bavarians had been pursuing Gordon for a longer period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona have made the first major coup of the new season by reaching an agreement to sign Anthony&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[53512,59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-609892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bayern-munich-transfer-news-and-rumors","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}