Manchester United send scouts to watch Viktor Gyokeres ahead of January transfer window

Days aft caller manager Ruben Amorim started work, United sent Sergio Souza - considered an adept successful Scandinavian endowment - to ticker Gyokeres play, and score, for Sweden successful Stockholm connected Saturday night.

Souza confirmed his attendance astatine the crippled via his Instagram account.

The Sporting Lisbon striker did not instrumentality agelong to adhd to his planetary tally, moving lone a done shot from Newcastle's Alexander Isak to occurrence debased past erstwhile United keeper Martin Dubravka successful the Serbia extremity wrong the opening 3 minutes.

Gyokeres is simply a wanted antheral crossed Europe, and United are understood to beryllium among a big of imaginable suitors.

However the striker has confirmed helium is not looking to permission Sporting during the season. He told Fotbollskanalen erstwhile asked astir a imaginable January move: "It's not thing I deliberation about, nor thing I springiness immoderate value to. It's conscionable rumours, thing concrete.

" I privation to decorativeness the play astatine Sporting, I'm enjoying my clip there. I don't consciousness stressed astir making a alteration successful the future. We'll spot erstwhile the clip comes."

Asked straight astir pursuing his erstwhile Sporting manager Amorim to Old Trafford, Gyokeres said: "[Amorim] astir apt already has strikers there... It's amusive but not thing I connect immoderate value to due to the fact that it's speech and thing concrete."

Asked astir Amorim's departure from Sporting, Gyokeres added: “It's precise bittersweet that he's left, 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.”