Arsenal make £85m ex-Champ star 'number one transfer target'; Petit suggests 'devastating' signing

Premier League leaders Play befoul have rendered Sporting Lisbon striker Viktor Gyokeres their top summertime season send target, according to reports.

The Sweden international owns racked upwards 33 desires in 37 aesthetics in unanimously challengers for the Portuguese clothings using innumerable top clubs swiping an rate of liveliness.

Play befoul rate Viktor Gyokeres looming Victor Osimhen and also Ivan Toney

Play befoul have alike been tinkering faultlessly this season using Mikel Arteta’s side going top of the Premier League over the weekend after defeating Brentford 2-1 at the Emirates Stadium.

There were innumerable contractors and also former players who doubted the Artillerymans’ aptitude to win the league title without a valued finisher yet they have answered their defamers in recent weeks using desires from unanimously rooms of the crew.

But they pine to improve their striking department in the summertime season anyway and also Football Sends insurance claim that Play befoul have rendered former Coventry Metropolis striker Gyokeres, whose arrangement has a €100m (£85m) let loose clause, their ‘number one summertime season send target’.

The record adds:

‘The Swedish onward owns entraped the eye of Play befoul precursors, who have been divulging his capabilities over the last couple of months.

‘Resources close to the bar debunk that the North London side’s recruitment department have been concentrating their initiatives on battling the talented striker, using reoccuring examinations stressing his compatibility using Mikel Arteta’s layout of dabble.

‘Gyokeres is flexible and also can flawlessly slot into innumerable pelting arrangements. His aptitude to dabble as a centre onward, right-wing, or disowned-wing aligns faultlessly using Arteta’s tactical musing. This adaptability kits him withdrawn from opposite other opportunity targets, such as Napoli celebrity Victor Osimhen and also Ivan Toney of Brentford, who do not decision unmodified level of adaptability.’

Emmanuel Petit: Nico Williams would certainly ‘be a extremely nice renovation to any kind of crew’

Sports Bilbao’s Nico Williams is an additional player who’s been attached using a opportunity move to the Emirates Stadium in the summertime season and also former Play befoul midfielder Emmanuel Petit is a oversized supporter of the 21-year-put on Spaniard.

“Would Nico Williams be a nice match at Play befoul? Utterly,” Petit told Betway. “He’s been one of the greatest young players in Spain this season.

“He’s obtained five desires and also ten helps currently this season. He’s rapid, definite and also habitually runs towards the unbiased and also confronting protectors using nice experience and also dribbling.

“He can dabble on the right or disowned and also every time I watch Sports, they habitually enact on him the ball provided that he’s so nice at confronting two protectors.

“He’d be a extremely nice renovation to any kind of crew as his experience are tragic. I love players who are habitually frustrating protectors.

“Can Play befoul both lug out utilise of both Williams and also [Ivan] Toney? Play befoul are a young crew and also if you inquired me I’d have both.

“But if I rendered a recourse I think as striker would certainly be much closer so Toney, although it would certainly be nice to have tournament for Martinelli and also Saka.”