Why Man Utd are confident of signing Viktor Gyokeres ahead of Arsenal and Man City

Manchester United are assured of signing in-form goalscoring instrumentality Viktor Gyokeres up of Premier League rivals Arsenal and Manchester City.

Gyokeres, 26, has scored an awesome 24 goals successful 19 games this play and 67 successful 69 since joining Sporting Lisbon successful the summertime of 2023.

The Sweden planetary had been plying his commercialized for Championship broadside Coventry City but has taken his crippled and estimation to different level since completing a €20 million determination to the Portuguese capital.

Gyokeres’ unthinkable signifier – helium has 3 hat-tricks this season, including 1 against Man City earlier this month – has caught the attraction of a fig of clubs.

Manchester United person been heavy linked with a determination fixed their existent shortcomings successful beforehand of extremity and the information their caller manager, Ruben Amorim, left Sporting and Gyokeres to instrumentality implicit astatine Old Trafford.

Premier League rubric rivals Arsenal and Manchester City are besides believed to beryllium involvement successful bringing Gyokeres to the Premier League, afloat alert that helium can beryllium signed for a comparatively tiny interest of £65m.

The dense and wide involvement successful Gyokeres could pb to a immense transportation tussle up of the January transportation model but The Sun accidental Manchester United are assured of winning the contention fixed the power of Amorim.

Man City person crushed to beryllium assured themselves, however, arsenic their incoming sporting manager Hugo Viana, owed to get astatine the Etihad Stadium adjacent summer, is coming from Sporting Lisbon.

Amorim, who took complaint of Manchester United connected November 11, refused to substance speculation helium would look to motion Gyokeres astatine his first property league arsenic Old Trafford manager.

‘Viktor Gyokeres is simply a Sporting player,’ said the 39-year-old who was appointed pursuing Erik 10 Hag’s sacking.

‘He has a crippled contiguous [Friday] and I anticipation helium plays well, doesn’t get injured and continues to beryllium palmy astatine Sporting.’

One of Gyokeres’ mentors, ex-Sweden midfielder Anders Limpar, precocious urged the prolific guardant to implicit a ‘crazy’ determination to Arsenal.

‘I cognize Gyokeres precise good personally, I was a spot of a mentor for him erstwhile helium played for Brommapojkarna, helium and Ludwig Augustinsson,’ helium told FotbollDirekt.

So, I’ve talked a batch astir nonrecreational beingness with him. 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.’

While Gyokeres has attracted attraction from immoderate of the biggest clubs successful Europe, not everyone is convinced helium would win successful the Premier League.

Ex-Manchester United striker Louis Saha has urged his erstwhile nine to steer wide of Gyokeres and says England skipper Harry Kane would beryllium a amended signing for the Red Devils.

‘It mightiness beryllium surprising, but I don’t deliberation Man Utd should spell aft Viktor Gyokeres,’ Saha told BoyleSports, who offer Premier League odds.

‘I deliberation helium is simply a bully subordinate successful an unthinkable tally of form, adjacent successful the Champions League, but helium won’t get the aforesaid luxuries arsenic helium does astatine Sporting.

‘Sporting are not nether the aforesaid unit arsenic Manchester United, it’s a wholly antithetic animal.

‘Right present United person Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee and astatine times the unit has looked to beryllium a batch for them to grip too.

‘It’s hard to find players who tin bash what Mohamed Salah and Erling Haaland tin do, United request to find players that tin truly wounded the absorption and are proven successful doing truthful and that’s a large task.

‘Manchester United person spent a batch of wealth and I don’t deliberation Gyokeres is the answer.

‘If you tin walk £120million connected Harry Kane past they should bash it tomorrow, determination are precise fewer guarantees successful shot but that’s what a nine similar United needs.’

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