Sporting Lisbon striker Viktor Gyokeres is reportedly “furious” at his club as he feels they’ve gone back on a gentleman’s agreement over a transfer away.
According to Portuguese outlet Record, Gyokeres has long decided he wants to leave Sporting, and he felt he would be allowed to do so for less than his €100m release clause.
The gentleman’s agreement he had with Sporting supposedly meant he could leave if clubs offered something in the region of €60m, plus €10m in potential add-ons and bonuses.
It now seems the Sweden international is angry at the Portuguese giants for going back on this, with Record claiming they’ve heard from sources close to the player that he is “furious” about the situation.
Viktor Gyokeres has attracted transfer interest from Arsenal and Manchester United
Fabrizio Romano spoke exclusively to CaughtOffside a few days ago to confirm that Arsenal have considered Gyokeres alongside their top target Benjamin Sesko.
Meanwhile Gyokeres has also been linked with Manchester United alongside the Gunners in a report from talkSPORT.
Both clubs need a striker this summer, and Gyokeres’ record of 97 goals in 102 games in two seasons at Sporting is hugely impressive.
The 27-year-old might find the Premier League a bit of a step up from playing in Portugal, but he also has experience of playing in, and scoring in, the Champions League.
Can Viktor Gyokeres get his move out of Sporting?
It will be interesting to see how this saga develops now, but it seems relations between Gyokeres and Sporting now aren’t great.
It probably wouldn’t make much sense for Sporting to force an unhappy player to stay, so we’ll surely see some movement on this before too long.
It’s not clear if he’ll end up at Arsenal, United, or somewhere else, but there will surely be plenty of clubs ready to pay decent money for such an in-form goal-scorer.
Arsenal need to buy both Sesko and Gykores if they want depth in the squad and to challenge in all four major competitions. Also if either one of these strikers went to an opposition it would be a disaster, given Arsenals opportunity and their value for money price tags to get them both at a huge discount price.
Jesus and Havertz can both play also as a winger as well as keeping all the wingers we already have for at least one more year and perhaps Sane on a free transfer. So the two new strikers £54m and £67m and a new defensive midfielder £51m, is all Arsenal really need if we keep all the players we already have at the club. We should progress further this coming year with the addition of many goals and depth in the squad.
Thank you for this comment and the thing you said about our rivals getting one of them will be a disaster for us is very true. I don’t feel our club is ready tbh, they are not ruthless and don’t seem like they have ambition to me.
Agree with you Daveg
If Arsenal are serious they want to win the league this season they need to sign both strikers Viktor as no 1 and Sesko as backup that is real firepower and guarantees Arsenal title. if Arsenal sign only Sesko for me we are domed for second place again the wait will continue because Sesko cannot fire Arsenal to the league for me when city have Hallaand and pool have Salah he is still in the bracket of Kai Havertz-raw talent. He will only become a complete striker in 2-4 seasons. Arsenal need clinical finisher now to challenge Liverpool and city not a future striker
I hate these clubs whenever Man Utd comes knocking at their doors they decide to hike the price of their players just to extort money from Man Utd.Shame on Sporting.if you had a gentleman agreement,why not honor it.Let Gykores also refuse to go till his contract expires and they don’t get a penny off him.He goes as a free agent and who looses?
Gyokeres might also perform well like CR7 did when Man United signed him. So he might be lucky plus he works hard too.
Gyokeres should go to man united and be like Ronaldo there with the goals…
Signing the two players seems nice and mouthwatering, but the major question would be ” How do you keep both happy”. who would be happy staying on the bench. They are both kings in their leagues and it’s impossible to have two captains on a boat.
No player wants to lose the momentum!!!
The best solution Is to decide ASAP on the striker that suites the team before another club hijack the player.