{"id":39471,"date":"2026-06-13T01:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/39471\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T01:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:30:19","slug":"reasons-why-arsenal-gave-barcelona-a-free-run-at-e80m-anthony-gordon-transfer-explained-as-newcastle-icon-backs-england-star-to-shine-at-camp-nou-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/39471\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons why Arsenal gave Barcelona a free run at \u20ac80m Anthony Gordon transfer explained as Newcastle icon backs England star to shine at Camp Nou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No deal was done, though, and Gordon has stepped out of his professional comfort zone. Quizzed on whether he is surprised that top-flight teams in England did not pose greater opposition to Barcelona\u2019s big-money agreement, Newcastle legend Waddle &#8211; speaking in association with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newbettingsites.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NewBettingSites.uk<\/a> &#8211; told GOAL: \u201cI think he was linked with Arsenal, probably for that left-hand side because they&#8217;ve not really had anybody fixed out there. So, Martinelli and whoever, they&#8217;ve not really got that position and thought, \u2018I&#8217;m going to have that shirt, that&#8217;s my shirt\u2019. Saka probably has on the right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArsenal were looking probably at a cheaper option of saying, \u2018we&#8217;re not paying whatever, 80, 70, 60 million\u2019. They were looking at a lot less than that, I think.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s come out of the blue, that move, whether they were impressed when he played the two games against Barcelona, whether they saw something there that they were interested in. [Lamine] Yamal on one side and Anthony Gordon on the other looks quite promising. But time will tell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s done well at Newcastle. He actually did, for me, have his best games as a number nine. His pace, his movement, suited the way Newcastle play &#8211; they play on the front foot. Barcelona&#8217;s quite similar, even though, obviously, the heat factor comes into a lot of their games. But I wonder if they&#8217;ve looked and thought, we can play him as a nine, because [Robert] Lewandowski&#8217;s obviously been released. They haven&#8217;t really had a lot of options.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey&#8217;ve been linked with [Julian] Alvarez at Atletico Madrid, who&#8217;s a good player. But maybe they&#8217;re thinking, if we get Gordon, he could be a nine or an 11. So, it could be a good bit of business by Barca.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No deal was done, though, and Gordon has stepped out of his professional comfort zone. Quizzed on whether&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15577,366,92,1563,85,1875,100],"class_list":["post-39471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-a-gordon","tag-arsenal","tag-barcelona","tag-exclusive","tag-laliga","tag-newcastle-united","tag-premier-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}