‘No doubt there’s talent there’ – Alan Shearer gives his verdict on Anthony Gordon’s transfer to Barcelona

“I’m surprised though that Barcelona are paying £70 million for him, plus add-ons because I didn’t think that Barca had that type of money. I mean, although maybe they’re playing a smart game, and they’ve now got that money to spend. What they now do with Rashford is a question, whether they have both Rashford and Gordon, I don’t know,” he added.

“I thought that it was more Bayern Munich that Gordon would go to, because there have been that many rumours about the German side. But Barcelona have come in late and yeah, I was a tad surprised that they could get that amount of money together, albeit you don’t have to pay all of it up front, it’s over the length of the contract.”