Liverpool get major £75m Anthony Gordon green light

Liverpool sporting director Richard Hughes ripped up Mohamed Salah’s £400k per week contract one year early.

The Egyptian King is out of contract at Anfield - free to choose a lucrative new deal at another destination. But his departure now leaves Liverpool short a right-sided attacker.

Given the transfer hints dropped by Arne Slot - and Liverpool media - over the course of a disappointing season we should not expect an exact stylistic match to Salah.

Instead we are likely to see a different kind of attacker arrive - a right-footed forward with speed and one-v-one ability.

A shortlist has been drawn up with three potential candidates - including Yan Diomande, Bradley Barcola and Anthony Gordon.

Diomande, Barcola and Gordon on the shortlist

Diomande, 19, is valued at €100m and the possibility of the Ivorian remaining at RB Leipzig for one more season cannot be discounted.

Barcola meanwhile may consider a Paris Saint-Germain exit in order to garner more starts but there are plans for PSG to offer him a new contract.

Gordon - recently linked with Bayern Munich - looks set to depart Newcastle this summer. A versatile attacker the 25-year-old England international can cover any of the three forward positions.

And with a Bayern deal stalling over the Magpies’ £75m valuation it looks like a deal with Liverpool could loom back into focus.

Liverpool told Anthony Gordon is most attainable target

The deposed Premier League champions made an attempt to sign Gordon back in 2024 - before he put pen to paper on a new Newcastle contract.

And a report in TEAMtalk now claims that powerbrokers inside Anfield now believe that Gordon is the most gettable of their three declared summer transfer targets.

“Alongside Barcola and Diomande, Gordon remains one of the key names still under serious consideration internally at Liverpool,” the report reads.

“The Newcastle winger is viewed as potentially the most attainable option currently on the shortlist.”

Gordon flattered to deceive in the Premier League last season - scoring only six times across an uneven campaign. But the England international did manage 10 goals in 12 Champions League matches - emphasising his credentials to do it at the highest level.

He has been appreciated at Liverpool for a while now - and it’s thought he would jump at the chance to return to the club he left as a schoolboy.

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