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The intervening years saw Gordon move for a British transfer record for a goalkeeper (£9m in 2007) and encounter serious injury which looked like curtailing his career. Gordon bounced back to prolong his career; winning a bounty of honours at Celtic, returning to boyhood club Hearts and prolonging his international involvement for much longer than anybody reasonably anticipated. His insane save for Hearts at Dundee in January will go down not only as his finest but one of the best Scottish domestic football has witnessed in living memory. “That is a moment I will treasure,” Gordon said. 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Huge things were expected of the full-back when he swapped Rangers for Everton in 2022 but his career has stalled on Merseyside. Patterson needs a transfer and regular football to belatedly build on earlier promise. Changes of Everton manager and a series of injuries have hampered Patterson since his £10m switch. “I’ve experienced a lot of ups and downs,” he says. “Quite a lot of downs, to be honest, in terms of injuries.” When at Rangers, Patterson was one of a group of players fined by police for attending a flat party amid Covid restrictions. 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