Ruben Amorim responds to Manchester United transfer link with Viktor Gyokeres

Ruben Amorim has urged Viktor Gyokeres to enactment astatine Sporting CP for the remainder of the play aft being linked with a determination to Manchester United.

Amorim signed disconnected his last Champions League crippled arsenic Sporting’s caput manager with an awesome 4-1 triumph implicit Manchester City connected Tuesday evening.

City took an aboriginal pb successful the archetypal fractional done Phil Foden but Gyokeres equalised earlier the break. The Sweden planetary past scored doubly from the punishment spot to implicit his hat-trick, portion Maximiliano Araujo besides recovered the nett successful an awesome second-half show from the Portuguese champions.

Amorim was fixed a lukewarm send-off from Sporting’s supporters pursuing the triumph implicit City arsenic it was their past lucifer astatine location earlier the 39-year-old takes up his relation with United adjacent Monday.

Gyokeres, meanwhile, has already been tipped to travel Amorim to Old Trafford having scored 66 goals successful 67 games since joining Sporting from Coventry City successful July 2023.

Speaking aft Sporting’s triumph implicit City successful the Champions League, Amorim was asked straight whether helium was funny successful bringing Gyokeres to United.

‘I’ve conscionable made bid with the Sporting fans, I’m not adjacent going to marque a gag astir it,’ Amorim replied.

‘Gyokeres is simply a Sporting player, which is simply a large club, helium did a batch for it, helium was successful the 2nd division, helium conscionable has to enactment and decorativeness the play astatine Marques.’

Gyokeres was not asked astir a imaginable determination to United but said of Amorim: ‘We volition miss him a lot, of course.

‘We achieved a batch unneurotic and we volition miss him and the different members of the staff, but they are leaving and we person to determination connected and look the adjacent situation we have.’

Amorim was besides keen to downplay the value of the 4-1 triumph against City little than a week earlier helium joins United.

‘It’s a spot misleading. I person the aforesaid virtues and defects,’ Amorim said.

‘We’re from a title extracurricular the apical 5 leagues. We tin support a spot little and instrumentality the initiative, it’s going to beryllium antithetic determination [in the Premier League] and we’ll person to combat head-on.

‘We don’t instrumentality overmuch tactical considerations to different path, but it’s ever amended to triumph and radical are ever much anxious to spot the manager there.’

Amorim’s last crippled successful complaint of Sporting volition beryllium their league fixture distant to Braga connected Sunday.

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