Arsenal star appears twice in most expensive uncapped English players list as Gordon lurks

This lot, including a current Arsenal starter, went for big money despite being uncapped by England at the time. Anthony Gordon would go top.

20) Harry Maguire (Hull to Leicester, £17m, June 2017)
Long forgotten is the Harry Maguire who rocked up to his first England gathering at St George’s Park carrying some of his belongings in a black bin bag. That innocent, naive 24-year-old had only been at Leicester for two games before his first England call-up in August 2017, with his actual debut coming a few months later. Gareth Southgate had considered giving Maguire the international nod during his time at Hull but the “defender that is very comfortable with the ball” ended up going down before coming up smelling of roses.

19) Aaron Ramsdale (Bournemouth to Sheffield United, £18.5m, August 2020)
A Sheffield United player during both of his England U18 appearances and the first five of his 12 England U19 caps, Ramsdale was signed by top-flight Bournemouth for £800,000 in January 2017. The keeper eventually broke into the first team for the 2019/20 season, suffering relegation as the club’s Player of the Year. Sheffield United, in their second season back in the Premier League, signed their academy product back for £18.5m and were subsequently relegated themselves with Ramsdale named Player of the Year.

18) Alfie Mawson (Swansea to Fulham, £15m to £20m, August 2018)
“The last time I spoke to him I was at Swansea in the thick of things in the relegation battle and he said realistically if you want to get back into it obviously the Premier League is a must,” said Alfie Mawson, explaining the influence Gareth Southgate had over his decision to leave Swansea upon their drop to the Championship in 2018. The centre-half had made a 27-man England squad that March as part of a late push for the World Cup squad, but did not make it off the bench against either the Netherlands or Italy.

Wycombe Wanderers at the age of 28, to save you a Google.

17) Keane Lewis-Potter (Hull to Brentford, £16m rising to £20m, July 2022)
It seems unlikely that Keane Lewis-Potter will have activated any of the £4m worth of add-ons which would theoretically take his Brentford move to the £20m mark. The 21-year-old has made two Premier League appearances from the bench and scored his first goal for the Bees in their League Cup victory over Colchester. A senior step-up would ideally be next after four England U21 caps and one goal, all of which have come in…