Gordon has enjoyed a mixed season for Eddie Howe’s side, scoring only three Premier League goals this season, but firing on in cyclinders in the Champions League.
Four goals in the first leg of Newcastle’s play-off tie with Qarabag brought his tally to ten in as many games in Europe for his club this season.
And that sensational form on the continent appears to have caught the attention of several English clubs ahead of the summer transfer window.
Liverpool were linked with a move for Gordon in previous summers, while Arsenal have also been credited with interest in the 25-year-old, who joined Newcastle from Everton for £45million in January 2023.
Manchester United are also reported to be monitoring the England international as they look to bring in a high-quality natural left winger to bolster their attacking options further.
But, according to The Sun, it is the league leaders Arsenal who are currently leading the race to sign Gordon, a player who Mikel Arteta has long coveted.
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Gordon is attracting interest from several English clubs (Picture: Getty)
Left wing is a position that the Gunners contemplated strengthening last summer, and could revisit in the summer. Gordon predominantly plays off the flank, but has shown his versatility and led the line for Newcastle in recent weeks.
Despite signing improved terms before the start of the season, Leandro Trossard is only under contract until June 2027, while Gabriel Martinelli’s future could come under doubt also after repeated interest from clubs abroad.
However, signing Gordon will not come cheap, with the report adding that Newcastle have set a £95m asking price for Arsenal or any other club looking to sign the forward in the summer.
Gordon has scored ten goals in the Champions League this season (Picture: Getty)
Newcastle will reach the UCL semi-final 😳 With Newcastle’s route in the UEFA Champions League, it seems very plausible Eddie Howe’s side can reach the semi-finals of the competition. If they beat Qarabag in the play-offs, they’d come up against Chelsea or Barcelona in the round of 16, and then either Club Brugge, Atlético Madrid, Liverpool, or Tottenham in the quarters. Could they make it that far? #championsleague#newcastle#footballnews#ucl#newcastleunited
After piling more misery on Tottenham last weekend, the Gunners are once again five points clear at the summit. City can reduce the gap to two points once again if they beat Leeds United at Elland Road on Saturday before Arsenal host Chelsea on Sunday.
Crucially, City have a game in hand on their rivals. The two also meet at the Etihad in late April on what could be a defining afternoon in the title race. Before that, they will also collide in the Carabao Cup final for the first silverware of the season in a contest that could set the tone for the rest of the campaign.
Arsenal have been here before and ended the season devastated and empty-handed. Nervous draws against Brentford and Wolves demonstrated there will be off days while injuries to key personnel at this stage can make or break the season.
For now, Mikel Arteta and his squad have their fate in their own hands. Keep winning and a first title in 22 years beckons.
Gunners legend Parlour was part of the last squad to lift the trophy in 2004, one of three he won under Arsene Wenger, and believes a favourable run-in for his old side should see them over the line – even if they have to wait until the last day of the season.
Sitting down with Metro this week courtesy of BetMGM, Parlour gave his predictions for each of Arsenal’s remaining league games this season.
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The Arsenal legend gazes into his crystal ball as the Gunners prepare for their final 10 league games of the campaign.
Chelsea (H)
These will have been two big games, against Tottenham and Chelsea in a week. If they get through them with two wins, that puts them in a very decent position.
The place will be buzzing. This will be the first weekend in a long time where they have had a week off too so they should start brightly. If you score first against Chelsea, they can crumble. They are a bit flaky at the back and they will give up opportunities. I don’t think too many of their players get into this Arsenal side.
Verdict? Arsenal win
Arsenal swept aside Tottenham in the north London derby (Picture: Getty)
Brighton (A)
Brighton are safe now in the middle of the table, not challenging for Europe, but comfortable. Those are the teams you want to be playing. So I'll go for a win.
Verdict? Arsenal win
Everton (H)
You’ve got to have that as a win.
Verdict? Arsenal win
Bournemouth (H)
Two at home in a row – I have to go for another win.
Verdict? Arsenal win
Arteta will hope there is plenty more to celebrate this season (Picture: Getty)
Manchester City (A)
I always say, against your rivals, and this is what we always tried to do against Man United, win at home and draw away. So I’ll go for a draw. City will need to go out and win the game and we know Arsenal can hit you on the break.
Verdict? Draw
Newcastle United (H)
Newcastle aren’t great away from home and we’ve had good results against them recently. I look at those home games and they have to be wins.
Verdict? Arsenal win
Fulham (H)
This is sounding like a good run in!
Verdict? Arsenal win
Arsenal still fighting on four fronts (Picture: Getty)
West Ham (A)
That could be tricky. A lot depends on where West Ham are by then and if they still have a chance to stay up. It could be tricky. I might put a draw down for that one but it is hard to call at this point.
Verdict? Draw
Burnley (H)
Burnley will probably be down by then so you would expect a win.
Verdict? Arsenal win
Crystal Palace (A)
Oliver Glasner will be leaving so I suppose maybe he will want to go out on a high, especially at Selhurst Park. But they will be safe. they could still be in the Conference League at that stage too which could make a difference.
Verdict? Arsenal win
Will Arsenal get over the line as champions?
If it goes down to the last day of the season, I would be delighted. I know how hard it is to win the league, but the run in does favour Arsenal slightly. This weekend is a very big one, especially for Arsenal.
First things first, Arsenal have to take care of business against the Blues on Sunday.
Arsenal and Chelsea have met three times this season with the Gunners dumping their London rivals out of the Carabao Cup across two legs.
Chelsea’s only defeats under Liam Rosenior came in those games but there has been plenty of fight shown, coming from behind in the league and in Europe against West Ham United and Chelsea.
Parlour believes the midfield battle will be key where Declan Rice and Moises Caicedo will do battle but believes Chelsea’s inconsistent streak – coupled with doubts over goalkeeper Robert Sanchez – could be their undoing.
Chelsea have not won in three meetings against Arsenal this season (Picture: Getty)
‘Arsenal are coming off a really good result against Tottenham but you have to be wary of Chelsea because they have quality players,’ Parlour said.
‘Midfield is going to be very important as usual, they have Moises Caicedo, Enzo Fernandez and Cole Palmer who can be so dangerous. In wide areas they are dangerous too and Joao Pedro is in really good form up top.
‘But it is all about Arsenal being at home. The place will be buzzing. If you score first against Chelsea, they can crumble. They are a bit flaky at the back and they will give up opportunities. Robert Sanchez can be a brilliant goalkeeper, or he can have a nightmare. I don’t think too many of their players get into this Arsenal side.
‘Chelsea’s problem is their consistency. There was talk of them challenging for the league and they were up there at the at the start but you don’t know what version of them is going to turn up. Chelsea can go to Leeds and lose 3-1 or go to Man City and get a win or a draw.’
No league wins in 2026, an ever-expanding injury list, no real identity and anger in the stands. None of this points towards a happy ending.
New manager Igor Tudor was quick to channel the spirit of his good friend and former Spurs boss Antonio Conte in the aftermath of the chastening defeat to Arsenal last weekend.
‘Where is the goal of this club?’ he asked, ‘Where is the goal of this team?’
Given he’s not expected to stick around past the end of the season, the answer for now should just be: ‘To not get relegated, mate.’
To be fair to the Croatian, he was asked what Spurs need to do to get out of this situation, and ‘having a goal to work towards’ is decent advice for a club that has looked rudderless for a while now.
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In the Premier League you tend to get what you pay for, and while they’ve spent big in terms of transfer fees, a restrictive wage structure has stopped them from taking that extra step to consistently finish in the upper echelons of the table.
Spurs are NOT part of the Big Six anymore 😟❌ Tottenham are just four points above the relegation zone in the Premier League after their 4-1 defeat to Arsenal, and as a result, are no longer a Big Six club according to Spurs fan, Izzie, and their owners need to invest in the team to get them back to that point. #tottenham#premierleague#bigsix#relegation#arsenal
Former Spurs midfielder Danny Murphy said as much on Talksport this week: ‘My gut feeling says that they’ve got too much quality. It doesn’t mean that it can’t happen but I’d say no, looking at their fixtures there are some games there that I’d expect them to pick up enough points so I think they’ll be OK – just.’
Will they? Sure, the likes of Conor Gallagher and Xavi Simons aren’t players you’d normally associate with a team that goes down but can any of us really say, with confidence, that Spurs have too much quality?
What about West Ham? They’ve been awful this season but have looked good in recent weeks and have a talismanic figure in Jarrod Bowen who, along with Crysencio Summerville, looks to have made it his only mission on Earth to drag them out of the bottom three.
Nottingham Forest, meanwhile, have the likes of Elliot Anderson and Morgan Gibbs-White in midfield and a settled side that – lest we forget – finished 7th last season.
Take Spurs’ injuries away and yes, their players are too good to go down, but we don’t live in that world.
The reality is that Spurs’ best fit player also happens to be their captain Cristian Romero, whose tendency to lose his head and get sent off has already cost them points this season, and who won’t return from his latest suspension for another two games.
Cristian Romero has been sent off six times in all competitions since joining Spurs in 2021. (Picture: Neal Simpson/Sportsphoto/Allstar via Getty)
When are Tottenham's injured players expected back?
James Maddison – cruciate ligament tear. Next season.
Dejan Kulusevski – knee problem. Mid-March.
Mohammed Kudus – hamstring. April.
Rodrigo Bentancur – hamstring. April.
Wilson Odobert – cruciate ligament tear. Next season.
Pedro Porro – hamstring. Next game.
Kevin Danso – toe. Next game.
Destiny Udogie – hamstring. Mid-March.
Ben Davies – broken ankle. Next season.
Lucas Bergvall – ankle. April.
Pedro Porro and Kevin Danso could be back in the side this weekend which, given Tudor’s preference to play a three-man defence with wingbacks, would strengthen them significantly after Archie Gray and Joao Palhinha played out of position in the north London derby.
What do Tottenham need to stay up?
It’s not over until it’s over. While a four point gap is nothing for clubs at the top of the table, it’s a lot for West Ham – who also have a massive goal difference deficit – to turn around. One thing’s for certain: Spurs need to find a win from somewhere, anywhere. Sunday’s trip to a Fulham side with European ambitions of their own would be a great place to start.
Looking at their fixtures, the real key for Tudor will be fixing Spurs’ awful home form. Since the start of 2025, they’ve won just four home games in the league. That’s four wins in 23.
Away fans have been having much more fun at Tottenham this season. (Picture: Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal via Getty)
The points needed to stay in the Premier League
Traditionally, clubs that were fighting relegation aimed to hit 40 points to secure safety, but that number has dropped in recent years as the gap in quality between the Premier League and Championship has grown and newly-promoted sides find it more difficult to stay in the decision.
27 points, which both Spurs and Nottingham Forest have reached already, would have been enough to stay up in the past two seasons.
However, Leeds United and Sunderland’s success this season signals a change, at least for this year, with it looking likely that Spurs and the other sides in the relegation battle will need to get closer to the 40 point mark than you might expect.
2024-25: Leicester City relegated in 18th with 25 points.
2023-24: Luton Town relegated in 18th with 26 points.
2022-23: Leicester City relegated in 18th with 34 points.
2021-22: Burnley relegated in 18th with 35 points.
2020-21: Fulham relegated in 18th with 28 points.
2019-20: Bournemouth relegated in 18th with 34 points.
2018-19: Cardiff City relegated in 18th with 34 points.
2017-18: Swansea City relegated in 18th with 33 points.
2016-17:Hull City relegated in 18th with 34 points.
There are home games to come against Crystal Palace, Nottingham Forest, Brighton, Leeds United and Everton. In a normal season you’d expect a couple of wins at the very least here, but given the toxic atmosphere around the Tottenham Stadium this season, it can be hard to picture what a home Spurs win looks like.
Away from home, their record is comparatively good: five wins, four draws and four losses. The only problem is they have a pretty tricky set of away games left, against Fulham, Liverpool, Sunderland, Wolves, Aston Villa and Chelsea.
It’s easy to make the argument that they’ll struggle in nearly all of those games, but two wins and a few draws would probably be enough to just about steer clear of the disaster that would be a relegation.
Postecolgou’s Spurs finished 17th on 38 points last season. It wouldn’t be a surprise if things looked the same after the next 11 games.
As one of the top seeds, Bayern know they will face one of Bayer Leverkusen or Atalanta in the next round and they are likely to be the overwhelming favourites to progress regardless of who they are paired with in Friday’s draw.
Harry Kane has been in sensational form for the German champions, scoring eight in eight in this year’s competition while netting 28 times – more than double his closest rival – in the Bundesliga.
After Inter Milan eliminated Bayern at the quarter-final stage last term, the England captain will be hoping he can continue his extraordinary goalscoring exploits to help put things right this time around.
According to Khedira, Bayern are the ‘absolute number one’ team to come out on top, as long as they manage avoid the kind of injury woes that derailed their campaign 12 months ago.
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Bayern finished second behind Arsenal in the league phase (Picture: Getty)
Kane has scored eight goals in eight matches in Europe (Picture: Getty)
‘For me, it will be crucial that Bayern Munich go into the knockout phase reasonably rested,’ the ex-Real Madrid and Juventus midfielder told German publication Kicker.
‘But the most important thing in this crucial phase will be that their spine, their absolute top players and game-changers, are healthy and fit, especially mentally.
‘Then, for me, they are the absolute number one, even ahead of Arsenal.’
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Who is more likely to win this year's Champions League?
Bayern Munich
Arsenal
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Arsenal breezed through to the last 16 with a 100 per cent record (Picture: Getty)
Bayern were without three of their star men in Manuel Neuer, Jamal Musiala and Dayot Upamecano when Inter beat them to a place in the semi-finals last season.
‘At this level, no squad can really compensate for that,’ Khedira explained.
‘That’s especially true when Bayern’s squad is deliberately kept smaller, consciously consisting of younger players and talents.’
Newcastle will reach the UCL semi-final 😳 With Newcastle’s route in the UEFA Champions League, it seems very plausible Eddie Howe’s side can reach the semi-finals of the competition. If they beat Qarabag in the play-offs, they’d come up against Chelsea or Barcelona in the round of 16, and then either Club Brugge, Atlético Madrid, Liverpool, or Tottenham in the quarters. Could they make it that far? #championsleague#newcastle#footballnews#ucl#newcastleunited
Although Bayern and Arsenal are Khedira’s most fancied teams, the 2014 Champions League winner believes PSG, Real Madrid, Liverpool and Manchester City could all realistically lift the trophy in May.
‘I also see Barcelona as a great team, but not as favorites,’ Khedira added.
‘I have a huge respect for Hansi Flick and I also like their style of play because it’s simply attractive to watch.
‘But they can’t seem to get their defensive problems under control.’
How to watch the Champions League draw on TV and live stream
The draw for the next round of the Champions League takes place on Friday February 27 at 11am UK time.
It will be available to watch on TNT Sports 1 and free of charge on the TNT Sports YouTube channel.
