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Anthony Gordon could become the top earner at Newcastle United in the very near future.
With a new report from The Mail saying their information is that the England international is set to be offered a £170,000 per week contract, far beyond his current deal.
Such a deal, if agreed, would see three things in play.
Anthony Gordon of course getting more cash.
Whilst in return, Newcastle United hoping this would further strengthen the chances of the player seeing his long-term future at St James’ Park. Plus of course, the longer a contract has remaining, a club is in a far stronger bargaining position if in the future other clubs do try to sign the player AND there is interest from the player and/or Newcastle United in a transfer happening.
It has been well documented for some time that the club were looking to tie down both Alexander Isak and Anthony Gordon on extended and enhanced new contracts.
In the past twelve months Newcastle United reached agreement with both Joelinton and Bruno Guimaraes on far longer contracts for both of them.
The Brazilian pair now contracted for just under four more years, until 30 June 2028, thanks to those contract extensions. The club’s Bruno Guimaraes official new contract announcement in October 2023 stated it took him up to June 2028. The Joelinton official announcement only said ‘long-term’ but across the media it was reported as also taking him up to June 2028.
As you can see from the overall view of contract situations at Newcastle United, both Anthony Gordon and Alexander Isak are also listed as having just under four years still left to go.
When they signed, the official club releases both only stated ‘long-term’ when it came to contracts, however, media reports at the time stated an understanding that the contracts for both Isak and Gordon were up to June 2028.
Five and six year contracts are the norm now for Premier League clubs when it is younger players, especially when serious money is paid that is largely based on that young player progressing to a higher level AND a far higher valuation. So clubs will obviously look to protect that higher value potential of the future.
Newcastle United committed £63m to get a 22 year old Alexander Isak and make him the club’s record signing in August 2022, so a six year contract would be an obvious minimum. At that point Chelsea were putting new signings on as much as eight year contracts!
As for Anthony Gordon, I have seen some more recent reports trying to claim Newcastle United are under pressure because his contract supposedly ends in June 2026.
It is ridiculous to believe that Newcastle United would have committed £45m on a 21 year old who had achieved next to nothing so far in his career back in January 2023, then agreed to a contract that only lasted three and a half years. Predictably, Anthony Gordon needed time to settle and only really got going once the 2023/24 season got under way in August 2023. By which time if these fantasy reports were true, he would have had less than three years left on his contract already!
As I said earlier, a number of reasons for giving your best players new contracts.
To hopefully make them feel even more wanted and valued as well as richer! Plus to protect yourself as a club.
No way you want to get into the situation that Liverpool now find themselves in, just over nine months left on the contracts of Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk and Mo Salah, arguably their three best players.
My belief is that Newcastle United will be offering Anthony Gordon a serious wage rise, in return for him signing a longer contract. However, I don’t believe that the club would make him the top earner, at best I think it would be up and around what Bruno Guimaraes is getting, the current top earner at NUFC. Or if indeed they did put Anthony Gordon on a higher amount, then I reckon they would also bump Bruno up to that.
How the Newcastle United contracts situation currently looks (via official club releases and media reports), when current deals end :
End of June 2025:
Dubravka, Schar, Wilson, Burn, Lascelles, Krafth, Gillespie, Ruddy, Lewis
End of June 2026:
Targett, Pope, Almiron, Longstaff, Ashby, Hayden, Trippier
End of June 2027:
Botman, Jacob Murphy, Willock
End of June 2028:
Tonali, Gordon, Isak, Barnes, Livramento, Bruno, Miley, Joelinton, Alex Murphy
End of June 2029:
Kelly, Hall

 
