Howe urges Newcastle to hand two stars new contracts as Liverpool make interest known

Newcastle United are planning to open contract talks with Antony Gordon after Euro 2024 at Eddie Howe’s request with Premier League rivals Liverpool still circling around the England winger.

HITC understands that, despite ranking as the third-most expensive signing in the club’s history, the £40 million acquisition from Everton remains one of the lowest-paid players in Newcastle United’s squad.

That will most likely change, however, if Anthony Gordon puts pen to paper on a new deal at St James’ Park.

Manager Eddie Howe has made it clear to Newcastle’s hierarchy that he wants Gordon – and striker Alexander Isak – tied down to new deals. The Merseyside-born attacker has only two years left on his current contract.

And Newcastle appear willing to oblige with Howe’s wishes.

HITC have been told that Newcastle want to open talks over fresh deal once Gordon returns from international duty with the England national team. Gareth Southgate’s side face Switzerland in the quarter-finals on Saturday.

Liverpool still sniffing around Newcastle’s Anthony Gordon

Liverpool remain interested in bringing the boyhood Reds fan back to the club where he began his career as a youngster before making his name on the other side of Stanley Park. A summer move back to his hometown was on the cards before the Profit and Sustainability deadline passed on July 1st.

Newcastle are no longer under any pressure to cash in having let Elliot Anderson and Yankuba Minteh join Nottingham Forest and Brighton and Hove Albion for combined fees in excess of £60 million.

“Anthony was my last signing at Everton. He was a boy we looked at a few times, as did Liverpool,” Neil Dewsnip, the now Plymouth director who brought Gordon across Merseyside to the Toffees as an 11-year-old, told BBC Sport recently.

“He was a little bit of a late developer. Physically immature. (But) we could see he had potential. The academy did well to stick with him. It was about being patient and keeping him in the system. In the past, players like Anthony might have been left behind but, as he got stronger, he came into his own.

“He was always very single-minded even back then. He knew what he wanted and what he needed.”