He can't fly, he can’t see through walls and he doesn’t play for either Liverpool or Manchester City.
And yet a small stampede of high calibre clubs are continuing to elbow each other out of the way in pursuit of Everton's Anthony Gordon. Just 21 and still with some filling out to do, the Liverpool-born winger most definitely has promise and represents one of the few shafts of light amid the wreckage of two nightmare seasons at Goodison Park.
Is he, however, a £50million player? Now? While he may well be in a couple of years’ time. Some of the Premier League's shrewdest judges are convinced that his x-factor is worth investing in now.
