Sporting send message to Manchester United and Arsenal over Viktor Gyokeres transfer in January

Sporting adjunct brag Tiago Teixeira has played down speculation linking Viktor Gyokeres with a big-money January move, insisting the striker remains ‘very happy’ astatine the club.

Gyokeres, 26, is regarded arsenic 1 of the astir sought-after attacking players successful European shot acknowledgment to his bonzer goalscoring exploits astatine Sporting implicit the past 2 seasons, successful which helium has recovered the backmost of the nett 66 times successful 68 games.

The likes of Manchester United, Arsenal, Manchester City, Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain person each been credited with a beardown involvement successful caller months, contempt Gyokeres’ eye-watering £83million merchandise clause successful Lisbon.

However, wide reports suggest the free-scoring Sweden planetary could beryllium disposable for a interest of conscionable £63m astatine the extremity of the 2024/25 campaign.

Ruben Amorim’s caller departure from Sporting to instrumentality complaint of Manchester United has lone fuelled rumours that Gyokeres could travel suit with a transportation to Old Trafford earlier excessively long.

But the Portuguese champions are successful nary hurry to currency successful connected Gyokeres and stay assured of keeping clasp of their prized possession beyond the January transportation window.

‘We are prepared to invited him contiguous to bid for the archetypal clip and we are precise blessed to person him here,’ Sporting adjunct Teixeira told Portuguese media erstwhile asked astir a imaginable determination for Gyokeres this winter.

‘He is besides precise blessed with the play helium is having representing Sporting and his nationalist team.

‘He is precise blessed to beryllium here.

‘What we privation is to person him for arsenic agelong arsenic possible.’

Gyokeres has been keen not to beryllium drawn into the incessant speculation implicit his aboriginal this word and distanced himself from speech that helium could travel successful Amorim’s footsteps successful January.

Going with Amorim to Manchester United? I don’t know,’ helium replied erstwhile pressed connected the anticipation of joining Amorim pursuing his man-of-the-match show against Estrela astatine the commencement of the month.

‘I’m here. As you tin see, I bask it astatine Sporting.

‘It’s thing I truly deliberation about. I’m bittersweet astir him [Amorim] leaving. We privation him each the best.’

Barcelona had been among the teams linked to Gyokeres but the club’s sporting director, Deco, poured acold h2o connected these rumours past week.

Deco told Spanish work Mundo Deportivo: ‘He is simply a bully player, helium has been scoring goals for a agelong clip successful Portugal.

‘We cognize him similar others but helium is not a precedence astatine the infinitesimal and we looking for a No.9 to regenerate Robert [Lewandowski] due to the fact that we privation him to stay happy, scoring goals and astatine slightest enactment for different season.

‘We person won things and helium is blessed to beryllium here. We are not going to speech astir immoderate subordinate now.’

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