Viktor Gyokeres’ ‘mentor’ tells him to complete ‘crazy’ transfer to Premier League club

Anders Limpar says helium ‘would love’ to spot Sporting sensation Viktor Gyokeres marque the adjacent large measurement successful his vocation by completing a ‘crazy’ determination to Arsenal.

Gyokeres’ bonzer goalscoring exploits successful Sporting person established the striker arsenic 1 of the hottest properties successful European football, with the likes of Arsenal, Manchester United, Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain each credited with a beardown involvement successful caller months.

And portion Gyokeres’ existent merchandise clause stands astatine £83million, it’s understood Sporting could beryllium consenting to bash concern for arsenic small arsenic £63m for their prized possession astatine the extremity of the season.

Ruben Amorim’s power from Sporting to Manchester United has lone fuelled speculation that Gyokeres could travel suit and articulation his erstwhile manager astatine Old Trafford earlier excessively long.

However, erstwhile Arsenal and Sweden midfielder Limpar hopes to spot his chap countryman – a subordinate helium erstwhile mentored astatine Brommapojkarna – playing for the Gunners if helium were to determination connected from the Portuguese apical flight.

‘I cognize Gyokeres precise good personally, I was a spot of a mentor for him erstwhile helium played for Brommapojkarna, helium and Ludwig Augustinsson. So, I’ve talked a batch astir nonrecreational beingness with him,’ Limpar told FotbollDirekt.

‘He’s a fantastically hardworking guardant who scores a batch of goals.

If we astatine Arsenal [were to] bargain Gyokeres, past helium volition decidedly telephone me. But past to spot Gyokeres astatine Arsenal, that would beryllium crazy.

‘His enactment rate, helium runs similar a madman. When it doesn’t enactment retired for Viktor, helium works his mode into the crippled with uncomfortable runs.

‘When different apical forwards aren’t doing well, they don’t enactment truthful hard for the team, they prevention their energy, Viktor ne'er saves his energy. When things are a spot slow, helium works his mode into a crippled with runs, that’s wherefore it has gone truthful well.

Limpar is assured Gyokeres could marque the modulation into Premier League shot based connected his caller heroics against Manchester City and his erstwhile spell with Coventry City.

He added: ‘We person to retrieve that the Portuguese league is inferior to the Premier League, but erstwhile Manchester City came to sojourn Lisbon, helium scored a hat-trick, truthful he’s afloat susceptible of scoring successful England.

‘He has played for Coventry and scored goals, helium knows the English mentality.

‘I deliberation his adjacent measurement is to play successful the Premier League and helium tin truly take which squad helium wants to play in.’

Barcelona were thought to beryllium among the clubs monitoring Gyokeres, with the Sweden planetary scoring 23 goals successful conscionable 18 appearances for Sporting this term.

However, Barca’s sporting manager Deco, speaking with Mundo Deportivo earlier this month, played down the rumours, insisting the guardant was not among their ‘priorities’.

‘He is simply a bully player, helium has been scoring goals for a agelong clip successful Portugal,’ Deco said.

‘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.’

The erstwhile Chelsea and Portugal midfielder added: ‘Firstly, we would person to cognize if Haaland is what we privation successful the future. We don’t cognize now. Right present we don’t privation immoderate No.9,’ helium added.

‘We person Robert [Lewandowski]. We’re not readying thing with immoderate No.9.

‘When the clip comes to marque a determination past I volition person to marque it due to the fact that I’m the 1 astatine the club. We’ll see the options. But I don’t deliberation it’s the clip to speech astir immoderate player.’

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