{"id":668087,"date":"2026-05-27T13:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/668087\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T13:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:13:14","slug":"anthony-gordon-barcelona-in-talks-to-sign-newcastle-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/668087\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Gordon: Barcelona in talks to sign Newcastle forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ciaran Kelly, Newcastle United<\/a> reporter<\/p>\n

There is the very real prospect that Newcastle<\/a> could end up losing their top-scorer for the second summer running.<\/p>\n

So, have lessons been learned from the damaging Alexander Isak saga?<\/p>\n

Newcastle<\/a> initially held firm after Isak pushed to join Liverpool<\/a> but the club ultimately buckled and sold the striker for a British-record \u00a3125m on deadline day.<\/p>\n

In contrast to last summer, though, when Newcastle<\/a> operated without an executive structure, the club now have a chief executive, Hopkinson, and sporting director, Ross Wilson, firmly in place.<\/p>\n

The absence of a sporting director in particular was felt when it came to handling the Isak situation and dealing with agents.<\/p>\n

There has since been a shift in tone and approach.<\/p>\n

Former chief executive Darren Eales previously said it would be “crazy” for Newcastle<\/a> to sell their best players but Hopkinson has struck a slightly different note.<\/p>\n

The Canadian said last March the club would look to “maximise the opportunity” and extract the best possible price if individuals were to move on this summer.<\/p>\n

So, rather than Newcastle<\/a> looking over their shoulder, the prospect of Bayern and Barcelona going head to head will be viewed as a potential opportunity to secure a substantial sum to reinvest and refresh a floundering side.<\/p>\n

In truth, it has felt like the club have been preparing for Gordon’s potential departure for a while now.<\/p>\n

Although Gordon has continued to train with his team-mates \u2013 his attitude has been praised by head coach Howe \u2013 he has had to make do with a place on the bench in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

Youngsters Sean Neave and Alex Murphy even came on ahead of the unused substitute against Fulham<\/a> on the final day, which was rather telling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ciaran Kelly, Newcastle United reporter There is the very real prospect that Newcastle could end up losing their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-668087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}