Man Utd scout watches Viktor Gyokeres score for Sweden as transfer chase intensifies

Manchester United are funny successful signing Sporting prima Viktor Gyokeres and sent a scout to ticker him successful enactment for Sweden arsenic they bushed Slovakia 2-1 successful the Nations League

Manchester United person stepped up their involvement successful striker Viktor Gyokeres, with a scout watching connected arsenic helium starred for Sweden successful the Nations League.

United person agelong been linked with a determination for Gyokeres, who has scored 66 goals successful 68 games for Sporting since joining from Coventry successful 2023. And speech of a imaginable determination to Old Trafford has lone accrued since manager Ruben Amorim near Sporting to instrumentality complaint of United.

And according to a study from the Sun, United sent scout Sergio Souza to Stockholm to ticker Gyokeres successful enactment for Sweden. The 26-year-old impressed during the game, netting Sweden's opener arsenic they bushed Slovakia 2-1.

The study states that European giants Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain are besides considering summertime moves for the striker. Both Amorim and Gyokeres person been asked astir a imaginable Old Trafford reunion successful caller weeks.

"If I commencement joking astir this Gyokeres concern I'll get successful trouble," Amorim was quoted arsenic saying by Portuguese outlet A Bola. "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."

Gyokeres, meanwhile, told Fotbollskanalen: "He [Amorim] astir apt has immoderate strikers determination already, truthful we'll see. No, helium hasn't [asked maine to articulation him]. It's amusive but thing I connect immoderate value to due to the fact that it’s speech and thing concrete.

"It's precise bittersweet that he's leaving, but of people we recognize his decision. He has of people meant a batch [to me] considering that helium gave maine that accidental and that helium made maine make truthful much. Now we look guardant to moving with the caller coach."

Amorim has ruled retired a January swoop for immoderate of his Sporting players, but United are expected to backmost him adjacent summer. "In January I'm not going to get anyone from Sporting. That's what I said," helium admitted earlier this month.

"In the summertime I don't cognize what I'm going to do. The main constituent is to clasp connected until the summer. Second point, you tin spot that Sporting players are large players. Let's spot what volition happen."

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