Bayern lead, Chelsea watch: Anthony Gordon set for Newcastle exit at £80m
Anthony Gordon's stay at Newcastle is on borrowed time. Fabrizio Romano confirmed on Friday that the England winger has "serious chances" of leaving St James' Park this summer, with Bayern Munich leading the race and Chelsea actively monitoring the situation. Newcastle have set the asking price at around £80 million.
That fee, near €92.6m, would be the second-highest transfer ever received by Newcastle, behind only the British-record £125m Liverpool paid for Alexander Isak on deadline day last September. It also comes with a built-in cost: Everton, who sold Gordon to Newcastle for an initial £40m in January 2023, hold a 15 per cent sell-on clause on the sale price. At £80m, that hands Everton roughly £12m before Newcastle see a penny.
Bayern at the front of the queue
German football journalist Christian Falk said on Friday that Bayern Munich's representatives have already held early talks with Gordon's camp, and Romano described the German champions as the most advanced of the suitors. Gordon sits in the top three of Bayern's winger shortlist for the summer.
Chelsea, who first scouted Gordon back in 2022 when he was still at Everton, are now back in the picture as they plan a busy summer in attack. Romano described them as monitoring rather than negotiating, but Anthony Gordon to Stamford Bridge is now an active conversation in west London. Arsenal, the other Premier League name in the file, would have to outbid both.
A season that priced him in
Gordon's Champions League run is what has pushed him into this bracket. Ten goals in 12 matches, including four in the first half of February's 6-1 win at Qarabag, took him past Alan Shearer's six and gave Newcastle a new club record for goals in a single Champions League campaign. The Qarabag night also produced the fastest hat-trick by an Englishman in the competition, all three goals inside 33 minutes.
The Premier League side of his campaign is less flattering. Six league goals in a Newcastle team sitting 13th, with safety still to be wrapped up. The Magpies host Brighton on Saturday, in danger of dropping further still, and Gordon has often looked like the only forward capable of carrying them. That contradiction, devastating in Europe, marginal at home, is exactly the profile that interests Bayern most.
Newcastle's contract trump card
Gordon signed a contract extension in late 2024 that runs to 2030, which is why Eddie Howe's club can quote £80m without flinching. There is no urgency to sell, no expiring deal, and no public agitation from the player. The complication is the market: at £80m, three of Europe's biggest clubs are willing to test it.
For now the player has not asked to leave. But Romano's wording, "serious chances", and the parallel pursuit by Bayern and Chelsea suggest Newcastle are already preparing for a summer in which they are the seller, not the buyer.
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