Man Utd get Viktor Gyokeres boost after transfer clause agreement comes to light

Manchester United are the latest nine to beryllium credited with an involvement successful Viktor Gyokeres and it seems Sporting Lisbon person already been making preparations for his aboriginal exit

Manchester United and different apical clubs chasing Viktor Gyokeres person been boosted by Sporting Lisbon's determination to trim Coventry's sell-on clause for the sought-after striker.

Gyokeres, 26, has evolved into 1 of Europe's astir prolific No.9's since moving to Portugal successful the summertime of 2022. The Sweden planetary already has plentifulness of suitors and whitethorn person adjacent won much admirers successful midweek erstwhile helium downed Manchester City with a sensational hat-trick successful the Champions League.

Arsenal are known to beryllium courting the erstwhile Brighton frontman and were heavy linked with him backmost successful the summer. But United person besides present been credited with an involvement successful Gyokeres arsenic Sporting brag Ruben Amorim prepares to take implicit astatine Old Trafford.

While Amorim played down suggestions of a January determination this week, it seems arsenic though it volition lone beryllium a substance of clip earlier Gyokeres moves connected to pastures caller - and Sporting person already been preparing for his departure down the scenes.

It emerged successful the last weeks of the summertime transportation model via Sport that the Portuguese giants had paid a sum of €2million (£1.7m) to reduce Coventry's 15 per cent merchantability connected clause down to 10 per cent.

And the information that Sporting person moved to guarantee they basal to slope a larger portion of immoderate imaginable interest for Gyokeres could beryllium conceived arsenic a motion that they cognize it's astir clip to currency successful connected their prized asset.

A caller study from The Times revealed this week that Gyokeres could adjacent beryllium disposable for arsenic small arsenic £63million adjacent summertime owed to a gentleman's statement with Sporting, who are consenting to bash concern for a sum acold little than the €100m (£83m) merchandise clause successful the player's contract.

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Amorim was asked astir perchance taking Sporting's prima striker with him to Old Trafford pursuing his last location lucifer astatine the helm successful Portugal.

United's caller caput manager is understood to beryllium reluctant to raid his existent club, though, arsenic helium doesn't privation to sour his narration with Sporting fans. He did, however, allude to the information that Gyokeres was apt to determination connected soon aft quipping that he'd beryllium "in trouble" if helium tried to lure the striker to Manchester successful January.

He said: “If I commencement joking astir this Gyokeres concern I'll get successful trouble! This is my city, this is my country, truthful I'll respect it. Viktor has to enactment until the extremity of the play and past his beingness volition astir apt spell determination else.”

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