Ruben Amorim reveals when Viktor Gyokeres will leave Sporting Lisbon as new Man Utd boss drops major transfer update

NEW Manchester United brag Ruben Amorim has dropped a large hint astir Viktor Gyokeres' aboriginal astatine Sporting Lisbon.

Reports person suggested that the erstwhile Championship star, present 1 of the most-sought aft strikers successful Europe, could travel Amorim to Old Trafford.

The Swedish forward, 26, scored a 2nd fractional hat-trick arsenic Sporting thrashed Manchester City 4-1 successful the Champions League, arsenic Erling Haaland, who missed a punishment astatine 3-1, had to settee for 2nd spot successful the conflict of the strikers.

It brings his extremity tally to 23 successful 17 games for the play and 66 successful 67 since arriving successful Portugal from Coventry for astir £20million past year.

Amorim, 39, is acceptable to bring astir of his young coaching unit erstwhile helium starts beingness astatine Carrington connected November 11.

But with United successful dire request of a 25-plus goalscoring striker, it remains to beryllium seen whether Gyokeres volition travel on too.

And present Amorim has breached his soundlessness connected the substance and revealed that helium expects Gyokeres to permission Sporting successful the adjacent future.

He told Portuguese outlet A Bola: "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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Though a January determination appears to beryllium disconnected the table, Amorim appeared to hint that helium could motorboat a summertime determination for Gyokeres.

Earlier successful the night, United fable Rio Ferdinand tipped Gyokeres to travel Amorim to United.

United don't privation to get into the territory of bringing successful a wide influx of players from a caller manager's erstwhile club, aft the chaos caused by signing six erstwhile Ajax players who starred nether Erik 10 Hag.

Ferdinand said: "The recruitment teams successful each the clubs successful the Prem indispensable beryllium scratching their heads astir however they fto him get away.

"He hasn't had a accepted route, his way to the apical hasn't been straightforward.

"He has had a travel wherever helium has had to physique himself and make what helium is now."

Gyokeres has an £85million merchandise clause successful his contract, which expires successful June 2028.

But according to Sky Germany, that volition beryllium reduced astatine the extremity of the 2024-25 campaign.

The Sweden international's marketplace worth is steadily increasing, with it thought to beryllium astir £70million.

Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City are among the different clubs interested.