Everton manager Frank Lampard has declared that Anthony Gordon is “our player” while refusing to be drawn on the likelihood that the winger would still be at the club when the current transfer window closes but admits that Dele Alli could be heading for the exit door.
During Everton’s pre-season of the USA, Lampard responding to reported interest in Gordon from Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United by declaring that the player was “going nowhere” but the 21-year-old is understood to have been the subject of an offer from Chelsea in recent days. Asked how likely he thought it would be that Gordon will still be an Everton player when the window shuts, Lampard said: “He’s an Everton player isn’t he.
“I don’t want to talk about hypothetical questions about what may be. He’s an Everton player.
