Manchester United and Arsenal are reportedly each nonetheless within the combine for the potential switch of Sporting Lisbon striker Viktor Gyokeres.
The prolific Sweden worldwide is presently on the centre of a “tense” state of affairs along with his present membership, in response to Fabrizio Romano on his YouTube channel.
Man United haven’t but opened formal talks over signing Gyokeres, in response to Romano, however they’re retaining knowledgeable of his state of affairs.
Arsenal, in the meantime, are additionally nonetheless in contact over Gyokeres even when their talks with one other striker, RB Leipzig’s Benjamin Sesko, are extra superior, as first reported by CaughtOffside earlier this week.
Fabrizio Romano on Viktor Gyokeres switch state of affairs
Talking within the video under, Romano defined that Gyokeres and Sporting are in a tense state of affairs as a consequence of his asking value.
It appears there’s important disagreement over how a lot Sporting must be demanding to let their star striker go this summer time.
This clearly gained’t be simple for the Portuguese giants, with Romano acknowledging that the 27-year-old had an “unbelievable” season, scoring 54 targets in 52 video games in all competitions for his membership.
Though Sporting are content material to let Gyokeres go for under his launch clause, they nonetheless need greater than €60m for the participant, in response to Romano.
Viktor Gyokeres not joyful after staying loyal to Sporting
Gyokeres’ aspect, fairly understandably, really feel aggravated by this because the participant stayed on the membership final summer time when he may have moved.
He once more stayed loyal when supervisor Ruben Amorim left earlier than January, as famous by Romano, so it is sensible that he now needs to depart with out an excessive amount of fuss.
Gyokeres appears an unimaginable goal-scorer who may certainly strengthen each Man Utd and Arsenal, who struggled for targets final season.
The previous Coventry Metropolis man may certainly be a significant improve on gamers like Rasmus Hojlund at United, and on Kai Havertz and Gabriel Jesus on the Emirates Stadium.
