For someone who had serious doubts over his credentials, to someone who has now just seen a £40million bid for his services rejected. It's been a meteoric rise for Anthony Gordon over the past 12 months or so at Everton.
At the start of last season, there were question marks regarding Gordon's future at Goodison Park. The Liverpool-born attacker, who is the subject of serious interest from Chelsea, has transformed himself on Merseyside, as Liverpool ECHO's Everton correspondent Christopher Beesley explains.
"Anthony Gordon has come a long way in a relatively short space of time, given that a year ago, there were still question marks over whether he would actually make it at Everton, and now he's regarded as one of the club's most valuable assets," Beesley told football.london. "He spent the second half of the 2020/21 season on loan at Preston. I remember him telling me earlier this year how this spell in the Championship had given him a real reality check over how fortunate he was to be in the Premier League and how he never wanted to drop down from it again.
