Viktor Gyokeres makes Ruben Amorim admission after Man Utd rivals pull out of pursuit

Viktor Gyokeres has been linked with a determination to Manchester United aft starring the enactment for Ruben Amorim's Sporting Lisbon, scoring 43 goals successful a title-winning season

Sporting CP prima Viktor Gyokeres admits helium hasn't been asked to articulation Ruben Amorim astatine Manchester United but said "we'll see" erstwhile asked astir a imaginable reunion.

Gyokeres fired Amorim's Sporting to the Primeira Liga rubric past season, scoring a league-leading 29 goals and 14 much successful cupful competitions. He already has 23 from conscionable 18 outings this term, including a hat-trick successful the memorable 4-1 Champions League triumph against Manchester City.

The Lisbon broadside are six points wide astatine the apical of their league array aft 11 matches, and person 10 points from a imaginable 12 successful Europe. If they're to support up their accelerated start, though, they'll request to bash truthful without Amorim.

United made a mid-season swoop for the 39-year-old caput coach, who volition instrumentality complaint of his archetypal Premier League lucifer connected November 24. In the meantime, though, the planetary interruption has fixed players from some clubs to talk astir what Amorim's determination mightiness mean, and it was nary astonishment to spot specified questions enactment to Gyokeres.

“He [Amorim] astir apt has immoderate strikers determination already, truthful we’ll see,” the Swedish planetary said, arsenic reported by Fotboll Skanalen (via Sport Witness). “No, helium hasn’t [asked maine to articulation him]. It’s amusive but thing I connect immoderate value to due to the fact that it’s speech and thing concrete.”

Gyokeres was besides asked much mostly astir Amorim's exit. “It’s precise bittersweet that he’s leaving, but of people we recognize his decision,” helium said.

“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.”

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United aren't the lone nine to find themselves linked with Gyokeres aft his awesome exploits successful Portugal. However, they look improbable to look contention from Barcelona.

"He is simply a bully player, helium has been scoring goals for a agelong clip successful Portugal," Barca's sporting manager Deco told Mundo Deportivo. "We cognize him similar others but he's not our precedence astatine the moment.

"We're not 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've won things, and he's blessed to beryllium here. We're not going to speech astir immoderate subordinate now."

Barcelona striker Lewandowski has thrived aft being reunited with his erstwhile Bayern Munich manager Hansi Flick. He has 19 goals from 17 appearances successful each competitions this term, with 14 successful La Liga - six much than immoderate different subordinate - to assistance the Catalan nine unfastened up a six-point pb implicit second-place Real Madrid.

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