Anthony Gordon to undergo Barcelona medical before £69.3m move from Newcastle | Newcastle United

Anthony Gordon is because of endure a medical in Barcelona on Thursday after the La Liga winners agreed a £69.3m switch with Newcastle on Wednesday evening. Ought to every part proceed to plan the England winger is ready to double his wages to round £300,000 every week.

Bayern Munich had been favourites to signal the England winger and even noticed a late bid rejected on Wednesday however Gordon’s coronary heart was set on Barcelona and a brand new life on the Camp Nou. Accordingly a participant who additionally Liverpool swiftly agreed private phrases earlier than Newcastle and the Catalan membership entered extra protracted negotiations relating to the construction of the charge.

All events will likely be delighted to have finalised the deal earlier than Monday when Gordon is scheduled to fly to Florida to affix Thomas Tuchel’s England squad forward of the World Cup.

Though the switch window doesn’t open till 15 June, the intention is to finish all of the formalities of the switch by the weekend after which rubber-stamp the transfer in the midst of subsequent month.

Barcelona are set to accumulate a flexible ahead able to taking part in proper throughout the entrance line. Though Gordon’s finest place is sort of actually vast on the left, he’s the joint-third main scorer on this season’s Champions League after registering 10 objectives. Solely Harry Kane and Kylian Mbappé have scored extra in Europe’s showpiece membership competitors.

But whereas Gordon – who has generally been reluctant to function on the fitting – ended the season as Newcastle’s prime scorer in all competitions with 17 objectives, he tended to order his finest performances for Europe and proved inconsistent throughout a largely underwhelming Premier League marketing campaign that continuously noticed him function at centre-forward.

The 25-year-old’s versatility appeals to Barcelona’s supervisor, Hansi Flick, who appears unlikely to make Marcus Rashford’s mortgage transfer from Manchester United everlasting. Gordon will, nonetheless, face competitors from Lamine Yamal and Raphinha on the flanks on the Camp Nou. Flick, in the meantime, nonetheless retains the choice of signing Rashford – whose wages are understood to be significantly greater than the sum Gordon has accepted – on a everlasting foundation for £26m.

Whereas David Hopkinson, Newcastle’s chief government, has persistently stated the membership will solely promote “on our phrases”, he is aware of he must commerce with a view to reconstruct Eddie Howe’s facet within the wake of this season’s disappointing Twelfth-placed league end.

Howe was anxious to keep away from a repeat of final yr’s long-running, more and more acrimonious Alexander Isak switch saga that solely concluded when the Sweden striker moved to Liverpool on final summer time’s switch deadline day.

Coincidentally, Liverpool got here near signing Gordon in 2024 and the previous Everton ahead has admitted he grew to become “unsettled for some time” when that transfer foundered.

In current weeks it has turn into evident {that a} switch this summer time was in each his and Newcastle’s pursuits. The winger – whose contract on Tyneside runs to 2030 – was not concerned within the last six video games of the season for Howe’s crew, initially with what was described as a “minor hip harm” earlier than being an unused substitute within the closing 4 fixtures.