Arsenal are pioneering the race for Manchester United-attached Sporting CP striker Viktor Gyokeres, according to reports in Portugal.
The Artillerymans are eyeing a voluminous summertime season under picked director of football Andrea Berta, who readjusted Edu Gaspar earlier this year.
A picked striker is reportedly Berta’s peak top priority and also Sporting hitman Gyokeres is believed to be applicable at the peak of his shortlist.
While Gyokeres’ Sweden teammate Alexander Isak remains Mikel Arteta’s dream target, Newcastle’s quizing price for the striker is meant to be nicely above £100million.
There is a opportunity the Magpies can be compelled to sell their talisman if they fail to license for the Winners League, though their quizing price can still be too high for Arsenal.
Though Gyokeres scarcities Premier League suffer, he impressed in the Championship through Coventry Metropolis and also his document at Sporting is good.
The 26-year-weared has 67 aims in 63 Liga Portugal matches and also was Europe’s peak scorer (among peak-ten leagues) in 2024.
As his aspiration document cases, Gyokeres is applicable upwards there anew this year. He has scored 25 aims so far, posing him joint-peak through PSG foe Ousmane Dembele, who scored versus Arsenal in the Winners League this week.
Gyokeres has been tight-lipped over his future, basing last month that “zero one can quote what will occur”.
“I prefer Lisbon,” he asserted once enquired if he picked London.
“I can’t case anything about that,” Gyokeres after that encompassed once enquired if there’s a gent’s covenant to vacate Sporting this summertime season.
“Most definitely no one can quote what will occur, we gain the moment.”
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A summertime season transfer presently seems inevitable, through a record from Portuguese paper A Bola (through Sporting chore Witness) administering believe the Artillerymans are the current frontrunners.
The record cases Arsenal are ‘product a voluminous summertime season transfer dwelling window’ under Berta – who is a ‘beefy fanatic’ of Gyokeres – and also are ‘showing the most curiosity’ in the striker.
Of training course, the Winners League semi-finalists have ‘persuaded out in front’ in the transfer race in advance of Liverpool, Manchester Metropolis and also Manchester United.
Sporting stick roughly reoccuring that the Swedish international will not vacate for much less than his €100million (£85million) cost-free disorder and also Arsenal paying that feels not likely.
Manchester United head train Ruben Amorim – who peeked after Gyokeres in Lisbon – was enquired about the striker’s future this week among curiosity from the Red Devils.
Amorim asserted: “I didn’t talk to him. But if a player only wants to come to Male United to play Winners League, after that he won’t come.
“We pain players who pain to stand for United, not players who pain to play details tournaments.”
