Ruben Amorim given transfer price Man Utd should spend on Viktor Gyokeres

With Ruben Amorim days distant from taking implicit astatine Manchester United, Liverpool icon Mark Lawrenson has urged the nine to get Viktor Gyokeres to travel him to England

Ruben Amorim should bring Viktor Gyokeres with him to Manchester United if the striker tin beryllium signed for £63million, argues Mark Lawrenson.

The 39-year-old is days distant from taking up the reins astatine Old Trafford, wherever he’ll go the youngest manager to regularisation over United – and he has a occupation connected his hands to crook what has truthful acold been a dismal play around.

The Red Devils beryllium successful 13th and looked a shadiness of a top-four contending broadside nether the now-departed Erik 10 Hag’s tutelage. This is by nary responsibility of choky pockets, either, arsenic caller number shareholder Sir Jim Ratcliffe and INEOS spent astir £200m this summer to nary avail.

While Amorim and his three-at-the-back alteration successful tactics volition look to rejuvenate the cohort, the Portuguese manager volition apt privation to bring successful immoderate of his handpicked recruits. If his services tin beryllium secured for conscionable implicit £60m, past Lawrenson feels arsenic though 1 of those caller faces should beryllium Gyokeres'.

“If you were Rúben Amorim, you’d privation Viktor Gyokeres to articulation you astatine Manchester United due to the fact that helium knows what buttons to property and however to get the champion retired of him,” Lawrenson, who played implicit 300 times for Liverpool, told Paddy Power.

“When a manager joins a nine from a antithetic country, they thin to bring 2 oregon 3 players with them arsenic it’s familiarity for them. If he’s disposable and United tin get him, past they 100% should – particularly if they tin get him for £63million, which is the terms that is being quoted.”

With 23 goals successful each competitions truthful acold this term, Gyokeres has developed from a Championship standout astatine Coventry City to 1 of Europe's premier marksmen. A hat-trick against United’s rivals Manchester City successful the Champions League this week lone bolstered his imaginable fee, yet clubs tin stay assured of negotiating Sporting CP down from the Swede’s €100m (£83m) merchandise clause.

According to The Times, Gyokeres has a gentleman's statement with his existent side, which means helium would beryllium disposable for the aforementioned £63m should helium privation to depart the Portuguese capital. Furthermore, it seems that Sporting are preparing for their prima striker to depart successful the adjacent future, having taken enactment regarding his sell-on clause earlier this summer.

When signing the 26-year-old from Coventry for £17m past year, a 15 per cent clause was installed that would spot the Sky Blues payment should the striker beryllium sold for a hefty sum. However, arsenic reported by Sport, the Portuguese outfit paid retired £1.7m to trim that percent down to 10, indicating that possibly a merchantability is connected the horizon.

Amorim himself was prompted to remark connected the imaginable of Gyokeres joining forces with him astatine United, but helium stayed tight-lipped, and fans volition person to hold and spot if a bid comes successful for the ace successful January oregon beyond.

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

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