Sporting Lisbon striker Viktor Gyokeres seems to be a man in demand having already found the back of the net nine times this season, but nobody seems willing to meet the Sweden striker s €100m release clause.
After opening the scoring in Sporting s 2-0 win on Tuesday night in the Champions League, Gyokeres admitted to be unsure whether his release clause was too high.
He said: Good question. I don t know. I don t work for the club or am a businessman. I m not up to speed on that. It s a lot, but I don t want to go anywhere. I m happy at Sporting, it s not a problem for me to stay. My value is my value. Let s see if something happens.
, though no move materialised off the back of a fantastic 2023/24 season where he scored 43 goals in all competitions.
With having narrowly missed out on a first Premier League title since 2004 last season, Gyokeres goals could have certainly added a different dimension to the Gunners, closing the gap on Pep Guardiola s Manchester City and it came as a surprise that Arteta didn t land a striker in the summer transfer window.
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Gyokeres is going into just his second season in the Portuguese capital after tearing up the Championship for Coventry City, with no Premier League clubs keen on taking a punt on the striker while applying his trade in England.
Sporting manager Ruben Amorim had also been linked with a move to the Premier League last season with the 39-year-old coming close to taking over the reins at the London Stadium as David Moyes predecessor.