Sporting CP’s center-forward, Viktor Gyokeres name is already being penciled as a possible player for various top English premier league clubs in the upcoming winter transfer window in January and the next summer transfers.
Viktor Gyokeres since joining Portuguese club, Sporting CP last season from English championship side, Coventry FC has been able to cement a spot in the starting eleven of the team sheet due to his consistent positive performances.
Following his remarkable act of goal scoring as a proper center-forward for Sporting CP from last season and showing no relentlessness in picking up from were he ended last season into the 2024/25 new campaign; Viktor Gyokeres is now knocking on the doors of top-English premier league clubs who are in need of his services as a goal poacher.
The 26-year-old Swedes international and Sporting CP’s center-forward is on the transfer short list of English premier league clubs such Manchester City, Arsenal FC, Liverpool, and Chelsea FC.
Manchester City after shipping out the Argentine attacker, Julian Alvarez on a permanent transfer to Spanish club, Atletico Madrid have failed to find his perfect replacement. Meanwhile, sources have it that, Erling Braut Halaand who is their main striker is interested in joining the Catalonian side, FC Barcelona in the Spanish La-Liga hence, the Manchester City views Viktor as the perfect player to replace the out going strikers in the team.
Further, Arsenal FC in their quest to win the English premier league have been tasty of an out-and-out center-forward like Viktor Gyokeres. The only position on the field of play, which Arsenal lacks the adequate material to work in is the center-forward position.
In the last summer transfer window, manager of Arsenal, Mikel Arteta failed to secure the services of a proper goal poacher but lost an inexperienced striker, Eddie Nketiah. Therefore, Arsenal are also tracking the development of Viktor including his buy out clause.
More so, Liverpool FC are also in the race to get the services of Viktor Gyukeres from Sporting CP. Liverpool currently have a center-forward, Darwin Nunez, who can also play as an out-wide winger. However, Darwin lacks goals and hence, Liverpool deems Viktor as an antidote to their goals deficiency.
Chelsea seems to be picking up their form in terms of the team picking up decent results in the league games and other competitions. However, the administrators are discussing with the technical team, to employ Gyokeres services to aid the team in their goal scoring hence, enabling them to regain their glory days and top-club status as compared to their underwhelming performances in last season.
Sporting Cp’s center-forward, Gyokeres after featuring in nine league games this season has scored twelve goals and an assist. However, he has a total of eighteen goals and seven assists in all competition this season.
Meanwhile, Viktor Gyokeres has a release clause set for a 100 million Euros however, there is an agreement in his contract that, Viktor can exit Sporting for a transfer fee in the bracket of 60 million to 70 million Eros.