The time is finally right for Richard Hughes to strike Anthony Gordon deal

Liverpool came within a whisker of adding Anthony Gordon to their squad ahead of the 2024/25 season.

The Newcastle winger was for sale owing to his club’s poor PSR outlook - with his Euro 2024 campaign interrupted by transfer negotiations.

But the deal fell apart because the Geordies managed to sell players elsewhere - including Yankuba Minteh and Elliot Anderson.

There is a good argument to be made that Liverpool should have taken advantage and bought all three that summer as right now their prices have only incresed.

Gordon speaks out about transfer interest

Gordon, 24, is on fire this season in the Champions League - becoming the tournament’s second-highest goalscorer behind Kylian Mbappe in midweek.

The England international netted his seventh, eighth, ninth and 1oth goals of the European season - in the 6-1 hammering of Qarabag.

Boyhood Red Gordon has also got two assists in the prestigious competition - leading to inevitable questions about his future and in particular another Liverpool link.

“It’s the same old, same old,” he is reported to have said. “I haven’t heard anything. They might want to tell me before they tell you. I have gone through enough transfer stuff now to know that it is all a load of rubbish.

“I am focused on me and focused on the team, I am focused on right now. You look too far in the future and you start to underperform.

“And believe me I have done that and I am not going to do that now.”

The time is right for Anthony Gordon

Gordon signed a new long-term contract at St. James’ Park after the breakdown of his Liverpool move and amid so much uncertainty around the Anfield side’s attack they would be well-advised to take another shot at signing Gordon next summer.

Mohamed Salah looks set to leave along with Federico Chiesa and there is no doubt that improvements could be made in the case of Cody Gakpo.

Why not Gordon?

He is a known Premier League quantity, is proving himself on the biggest stage and would no doubt jump at the chance to return to Liverpool.

Having left the club as a boy - before pursuing a career with Everton and Newcastle - Gordon has got unfinished business on Merseyside. Richard Hughes should definitely take another look.

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