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After relentless discuss round Arsenal’s curiosity in Alexander Isak, it appears the Swede isn’t the one Newcastle United star on the Gunners’ radar.
Hopefully all this exit discuss is put to mattress quickly by us knocking them out of subsequent month’s Carabao Cup semi-final and returning to the Champions League subsequent season.
However, for now, there’s extra chatter round potential curiosity as David Ornstein – one of the crucial dependable journalists in soccer – discusses Arsenal’s ongoing curiosity in one other Newcastle attacker.
If hyperlinks with Liverpool weren’t sufficient over the summer time, The Athletic’s David Ornstein has revealed that Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal are additionally serious about Anthony Gordon.
Talking on Sky Sports activities’ Switch Present, Ornstein admitted that Arsenal have tried to signal the 23-year-old up to now and stay large admirers of the scouse winger:
“They got here near doing one thing on Anthony Gordon up to now. Once more, I don’t suppose he can be one they (Newcastle) want to lose, however I do hear of golf equipment who’ve big admiration for him, even Arsenal amongst them, like Anthony Gordon.”
“I believe Isak can be the final resort (for Newcastle to promote). You do have to recollect, although, that there’s a little bit of a contract scenario there with him at Newcastle that doesn’t seem to have moved ahead.”
Sky Germany reported yesterday that Brentford are demanding £50m for Kevin Schade; a fellow 23-year-old winger who hardly ever begins for the Bees.
If that’s his price ticket, it makes you marvel what Newcastle would demand for an England worldwide who is flexible, speedy, solely getting higher and on target to ship double figures for targets and assists within the Premier League in again to again seasons.
Contemplating we paid £45m for Gordon at a time the place he was nonetheless uncooked, with out an England cap or any observe report of targets or assists within the Premier League, we’d be ready to demand virtually double that now.
Extra discuss of outgoings is hardly the antidote to a irritating January window to date. However, if it’s any comfort, at the very least we’re nicely protected and ready to demand big sums for our star males, with Gordon additionally signing a brand new long-term deal just some months in the past.
