Viktor Gyökeres has been nothing short of sensational this season, he started where he left off in the last Campaign and has arguably been the best striker in Europe this season. This is perfectly reflected in the statistics with the Swedish international already boasting an impressive tally of 27 G/A for club and country this season.
The sum is made the more impressive considering it’s made mostly of goals, indeed he has 20 goals and 7 assists which makes him one of the hottest players in Europe currently! If he continues to score at this rate, he’ll most likely smash his tally of 43 goals and 14 assists for Sporting last season which is pretty astonishing to say the least.
His impressive form last season saw us get linked with his signature in the summer, which is no surprise considering our well documented search for a striker in the early stages of the last transfer window. One reason out of many why we didn’t sign him was the price tag, as you would imagine for such a player of his goalscoring ability.
His contract includes a release clause of €100million which you would imagine was a huge turn off for interesting parties in the summer, however new developments will be a boost to any club interested in the striker.
According to Florian Plettenberg, there’s been a transfer agreement between Sporting and the Swede which will see him being able to leave the club for way less next summer despite his release clause. According to the reporter, a winter transfer is unlikely, however Gyökeres will be available for between €60-70million next summer, all interested teams have been informed of this agreement with a quartet of ourselves, Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool being the teams from England with high interest in the Swedish international.
The only down side to the news is the amount of competition we’ll face if we decide to go for him, other than that however it is still a very huge boost to our chances of finally landing an out and out number 9!
Considering this new development, Should he be a priority next summer?
KENNETH BENJAMIN.
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Am just watching what I said happening,I said in the begining of the season that arsenal will regret not signing Viktor Gyokeres, because some arsenal fans were saying Portuguese League is just a low league and that Viktor Gyokeres will not fit in England and that he had just left a championship team,I asked myself btn championship and primeraliga of Portugal which is greater or highly rated,I said that now this season Viktor is going to score more than 30 primeraliga goals and he be a hot cake come summer,now already the guy ha 14 goals in 14 games and four assists,I said arsenal will face fierce competition from many clubs will not hesitate to meet his release clause as we are watching unless the player has an admiration of playing for arsenal,I have now seen not only arsenal and Chelsea who want Viktor now Barcelona is looking to replace Viktor with Robert lewandoski, Juventus are looking for a replacement for vlahovic, Liverpool is also on the mix and now Manchester united Will be another threat to arsenal especially if they happen to sign Ruben amorim as their coach.Am only watching for this saga I don’t know what will happen to arsenal and especially if they don’t win any trophy this season it will be hard to convince players to join fading Arsenal’s project.
I reckon he’ll be Manu bound
But the potential problem here is that with four clubs or more apparently interested in him, there will probably be an auction which will very likely push the fee up. It will also come down to wages as well. Even if he is first choice by Arsenal, they may not have the financial clout to land him.