Everton are set to receive a boost to revenue if former academy star Anthony Gordon's transfer to Barcelona goes through. The Cateloinian giants have agreed a near £70M transfer fee for the 25-year-old England international.
BBC Sport previously reported the clubs were in advanced talks as they looked to agree a fee. These had been described as positive and it is claimed that a deal has now been struck worth in excess of €80M (£69.3M).
Gordon is expected to finalise the formalities of his move before he flies out with his England team-mates to the United States for a training camp before the World Cup.
Everton are thought to be in line for 15% of any extra profit on the initial £45M transfer they received from Newcastle Utd in 2023.
Would you credit it?
We are expected to believe the national rags and the hyperventilating 'it's a done deal!' merchants on social media who are currently having a collective meltdown over the news that Everton's former Academy graduate, the boy who swapped Kirkdale for the Bigg Market, is on the verge of completing this £69.3M (€80M) move to Barcelona.
Yes, that Barcelona. The same Barcelona that was, until approximately five minutes ago, entirely bankrupt and trying to pay its electricity bills in unsold Spotify premium vouchers.
And do these sums really add up?
According to reports, Joan Laporta has actually opened his mouth and confirmed the deal, while Anthony is allegedly flying out to Spain to pocket a cool £300,000 a week.
For those keeping score at home via the standard ToffeeWeb ledger of perpetual grievance, here is how the financial trajectory of Star Boy Gordon looks:
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January 2023: After falling out with some fatuous fans, he pushes through a messy, unedifying exit from Goodison Park. Newcastle pay £45.6M. Bill Kenwright's ghost presumably sighs.
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May 2026: After a season where he supposedly didn't even kick a ball after April due to a hip injury, Barcelona rock up with nearly £70M in a briefcase.
Let that sink in. A player whose primary attributes at Everton were running very fast in a straight line, looking incredibly pale, and falling over in the penalty box, is now apparently the chosen successor to inherit the turf once graced by Lionel Messi and Ronaldinho...
The Champions League Mirage
The justification for this astronomical fee is that he’s hit 10 goals in 12 Champions League games this season for Eddie Howe's lot. Fine. Credit where it's due; he found his shooting boots on the continent.
But let’s not pretend he’s been ripping up the Premier League, week-in & week-out. Newcastle didn't even manage to qualify for Europe next season, and yet Barca are treating him like the second coming of Johan Cruyff.
Rumour has it Hansi Flick sees him as a versatile option who can play across the front line now that Robert Lewandowski is packing his bags. We see him as a lad who will get about three matches in La Liga before the notoriously fickle Nou Camp crowd realizes his first touch frequently goes further than his actual shots.
The Inevitable Bitter Pill
What does this mean for Evertonians? Mostly, another heavy sigh. If there really is a 15% a sell-on clause hidden in that original £45M deal, maybe Angus Kinnear can scrape together enough loose change to buy a squad player from the Championship who can actually control a football.
But watching a lad who threw a tantrum to leave L4 suddenly getting unveiled at the Camp Nou while we are still counting pennies and staring down the barrel of modern football's grim realities? It's enough to make you sick.
Expect the official announcement by the end of the week. This one has "Disastrous loan move back to West Ham in 18 months" written all over it.
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2 Posted 27/05/2026 at 20:53:18
3 Posted 27/05/2026 at 21:21:30
To be honest I can't really recall any soundbites from either FSG or their board members mentioning that their plan is to ensure we challenge for the top 6 (or is it 7...8??) Euro places. They simply bought out Moshiri & blanced the books to stop us going tits up and maybe they think that's enough?
I'm still hoping that Moyes will be gone when his 2.5 year contract runs out... or Iraola comes charging down Everton Brow like a Spanish Conquistador.
4 Posted 27/05/2026 at 21:41:49
I thought we had a clause...
5 Posted 27/05/2026 at 22:04:51
We get 15% of anything over the £45M we got when he went to Newcastle, so the BBC are saying.
6 Posted 27/05/2026 at 23:15:29
The sell-on fee according to BBC is 15%, so £14M.
7 Posted 27/05/2026 at 00:27:04
Under Dismal Dave we took a mere two points from the eighteen available from our final games.
Those games cost Freidkin way more £millions than what the comparatively minimal kick-back from Gordon's transfer will make available to his development of Roma.
Sigh.
8 Posted 28/05/2026 at 08:43:58
According to Sky Football.
9 Posted 28/05/2026 at 10:03:44
Might pay for a centre-forward's left toe.
10 Posted 28/05/2026 at 10:19:12
Barcelona's transfer dealings rarely make any sense.
11 Posted 28/05/2026 at 10:37:10
Yes, and giving him £300k a week in wages, takes some believing that unless they are selling Yamal for half a billion!
12 Posted 28/05/2026 at 10:53:25
And proof football has lost the plot.
13 Posted 28/05/2026 at 11:01:47
Shades of Tommy Gravesen.
14 Posted 28/05/2026 at 11:25:28
He has been bang average.
15 Posted 28/05/2026 at 12:09:22
We get 15% of that profit so around £3.75M.
16 Posted 28/05/2026 at 13:07:00
17 Posted 28/05/2026 at 13:10:22
Surely that can't be right, he must have a fantastic agent if they pull that off.
18 Posted 28/05/2026 at 13:37:32
19 Posted 28/05/2026 at 14:19:04
Newcastle will be delighted too. It will be interesting to see if Barcelona will get the best out of him... interesting.
20 Posted 28/05/2026 at 14:27:33
Perhaps that our two outfield England players are good enough to play for Ireland... but don't seem to be interested?
21 Posted 28/05/2026 at 15:16:17
Makes no sense.
Just proves I know nothing about football!
22 Posted 28/05/2026 at 22:24:46
Good, yeah, but Barca forward.
Perhaps I havnet paid him good enough attention.
23 Posted 28/05/2026 at 23:42:18
24 Posted 28/05/2026 at 00:01:28
Erm???? Young Deggers from Walton Vale is available for £0.7 mill and we might be able to snatch a 40-something from somewhere.
25 Posted 28/05/2026 at 00:52:35
And future potential youngsters can see it as a positive pathway. Hopefully, one day when we can challenge the top spots, we can retain them.
26 Posted 29/05/2026 at 10:17:25
Getting nearly £50 mill for Gordon is a very good piece of business for us. We've sold other players for less and will have missed them far more.
I don't think he'll make it in Spain but if he does fair play and hopefully as Lester says it will help shine a light on our youth system. The more successes from our youth system then the more likely other good young players will join us.
27 Posted 29/05/2026 at 10:34:08
People slaughter Benitez, (if you would have told me I’d be on an Everton website, defending the fat Spanish waiter, ten years ago, I’d have told you to fuck off!) but when Gordon returned to Everton, after being allowed to go to Preston, by Ancellotti, he was very straight with the kid and told him he never had the stamina to last a game.
Gordon, then started getting stronger, and suddenly started doing a lot better.. He did very well for us under Lampard, but there was something I still didn’t quite like about him, (Just my own opinion) even though it was clear that he was improving.
I don’t watch a lot of football now so I can’t comment on Anthony’s progress, but in the game at Goodison, a couple of years ago, (his first game playing against Everton, at Goodison) it looked like he had improved massively and had become a real genuine talent.
On that performance I could easily see him becoming a success in Spain, because when he plays in between the lines, just off the centre forward, he his very clever at finding space.
28 Posted 29/05/2026 at 10:43:47
He might dive a lot, but that pace is lethal & wins you football matches.
29 Posted 29/05/2026 at 10:55:23
I agree with you Dave, in that he seems to have improved since he went to Newcastle, but I still think it's an odd transfer.
30 Posted 29/05/2026 at 11:12:39
31 Posted 29/05/2026 at 18:50:48
32 Posted 29/05/2026 at 20:26:30
I mean, great for the lad etc but just doesn't sit well with me how he got there.
33 Posted 29/05/2026 at 21:36:03
And La Liga does not open theirs until 1 July. So how is he a Barcelona player?
34 Posted 29/05/2026 at 22:06:03
Hopefully, Gordon wins the golden boot for England and ends up costing those Geordie Maggots millions because the transfer has already been agreed, just like agreeing to sell Lineker early probably cost Everton another million or two in 1986... 🙈
35 Posted 29/05/2026 at 22:27:39
Gordon always had pace but he's added much more to his game since he left.
I am not sure I would want to dwell on who we bought with the £45M....
36 Posted 30/05/2026 at 01:21:30
Hopefully this will help us to keep Tyrique George on the books!!!
37 Posted 30/05/2026 at 11:34:43
I still can't understand how Barcelona are spending this money and are still looking to buy more but are supposed to be in massive debt. I thought it was Real Madrid who got out of this state of complete debt but got away with it two or three times in the past.
38 Posted 31/05/2026 at 02:21:26
Barca with their payment clearly imagine him becoming a tree-like regular superstar for them.
Hmm......... I personally doubt it, but his sale does provide us with enough cash to continue to employ our various poorly paid behind-the-scenes minions upon whom the various way more successful clubs than us rely upon to promulgate success as a whole-hearted enterprise.
Freidkin, the all but silent one owner. won't now have to spend an ounce of the interest on his peculiarly acquired fortune to ensure the futures of the many "menial" staff at Everton.
Major result - Hallelujah to him, as gullible USA based TW'ers might espouse!
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1 Posted 27/05/2026 at 20:29:36