Paris St-Germain on Tuesday, Real Madrid on Sunday, and eyes on the Ballon d'Or ceremony on Monday. This is a glamorous week for Barcelona's Anthony Gordon, whose club-mate Lamine Yamal and international team captain Harry Kane are vying for the big individual prize. Gordon played the full 90 minutes in Barcelona's Champions League epic against PSG and will likely have a significant role in the Clasico.
As for the Ballon d'Or, he is not shy about his ambitions to be in the conversation for that one day, too. "I've always dreamt of that since a kid," he told the media at the recent England camp. "I've never had a limit on what I can do in life because I understand that the people who are there at some point weren't there.
"I believe anyone can achieve anything they put their mind to - they just need a lot of luck. "Things like that are about preparation. When preparation meets luck you get that kind of opportunity.
So I'm trying to do everything I can to be the best player I can be. Hopefully I get a lot of luck and then we'll see." His critics might say that dream is fanciful. But Gordon's self-confidence and improvement mindset has taken him to another level this year.
He was a surprise signing by Barcelona in May, given they could have landed his England team-mate Marcus Rashford for £26m after a positive loan spell. But their £69.3m spend signalled their belief in the potential of 23-year-old Gordon. Buoyed, Gordon went on to have a standout World Cup with England, scoring in the semi-final against Argentina and ousting Rashford as his country's first-choice left winger.
Two assists on his Barca debut in August made him an instant hit with his new club's supporters. There have been four assists in 10 LaLiga games so far, with his first two goals for Barca coming after the last international break - when his three goals in three games for England included a fine breakaway effort against Spain. The heights of Kane and Lamine Yamal are stratospheric but Gordon sees Barcelona as the ideal place to continue to climb the ladder - and show Premier League viewers there are many more qualities to his game than some assume.
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