Viktor Gyökeres could leave Sporting Club this summer as Arsenal shows interest in signing him.
The Gunners have been linked with a move for the Swedish striker for several months now after his impressive campaign at Sporting.
However, several reports suggested that his release clause, which is valued at around €100 million, could hinder a move for him.
Arsenal remains committed to signing players at a reasonable price, and it seemed Sporting’s asking price might cause them to abandon their pursuit.
However, a report on Team Talk reveals that the Portuguese club has made a decision that could help reduce their asking price.
The report claims they have paid a pre-agreed fee to Coventry City, reducing the sell-on percentage from 15% to 10%.
This means when Gyökeres leaves, Sporting will only have to pay 10% of the profits from his transfer to his former club, which could lower the overall transfer fee.
If the fee becomes reasonable enough, there is a good chance that Arsenal will renew their interest in signing him in the coming weeks.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Gyokeres proved to be one of the world’s best strikers with his performances for Sporting Club last season and will definitely improve us.
However, we will only make an official approach for his signature if the asking price is reasonable.
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Just because the sell-on fee due to Coventry City would be reduced doesn’t mean the transfer fee Sporting is demanding will be less than it otherwise would be. The agreed-upon for reduction of the sell-on fee would not have been agreed-upon by Sporting if it did not have a ready buyer for Gyokeres and know how much they will be getting for him. Is Arsenal the buyer?
Totally agree BB.
I hope it’s Arsenal. It maybe a case of not a disagreement with the purchase fee of £86m, but how it’s structured to include incentives and guaranteed performance targets.
As it is a big gamble coming from a lower league, no disrespect to Portugal, but a gamble worth making with the right performance guaranteed in the structure of the deal being made and also if this structure is reasonable and agreeable by both parties sharing the risk that he will carry on his performance in a higher superior competitive league ( no disrespect to Portugal).
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I’ve said it in other posts, so I’ll risk saying it again here, I wonder why there appears to be such little general interest in this player.
If he’s as good a prospect for any of Europe’s “big leagues” as some reports suggest (and he may be, who knows?) I would have expected there to be several clubs with a real interest in him. Top quality strikers are very few and far between. Sporting would certainly make that known in order to push the potential price up. The article suggests the opposite.
Arsenal appears to be first in a field of one currently. If true, that’s a little odd (and somewhat reminiscent, in part, of our old friend Pepe’s transfer to Arsenal).
Pepe — nooooo. This kind of thing is what that scares fans (and management as well). imo, Pepe wasn’t that terrible for us but he just didn’t perform as advertised (and paid for) after being devastating for Lille. Very astute comment.
Reply to Bertie Mee’s knees.
Well, we’ll see. I’ve just read (yet another) report about young Gyökeres which describes him as “one of Europe’s most wanted players” but doesn’t name any club that’s interested other than Arsenal.
It seems Sporting are “holding out” for £60m – OK, that’s a chunk of change of course but it’s “only” 60% of the fee paid for Rice and look what you’re getting – one of the most wanted etc. Surely clubs should be forming an orderly queue and someone, somewhere, should have started negotiations by now.
I think if we get him it will surely be a huge plus for us, he’s strong, fast and he’s decision making is high.
He is big so he will a threat to both defenders and goal keepers let’s not forget that we have good midfielder that can make him unstoppable. The price is an issue that’s the fact but I watch him and I know he’s good for us