Sporting Lisbon star Viktor Gyokeres has become Europe’s hottest transfer property but he is being urged to avoid linking back up with Ruben Amorim at Manchester United
Sporting Lisbon star Viktor Gyokeres has become Europe’s hottest transfer property but he is being urged to avoid linking back up with Ruben Amorim at Manchester United Sporting Lisbon star Viktor Gyokeres has become Europe’s hottest transfer property but he is being urged to avoid linking back up with Ruben Amorim at Manchester United
Viktor Gyokeres should snub Manchester United for Arsenal.
That is the verdict of Anders Limpar, the Swedish midfielder who spent four years with the Gunners between 1990 and ‘94.
Limpar, 59, considers himself to be a long-time mentor of Gyokeres, 26, and says that one of Europe’s most coveted centre-forwards should choose Mikel Arteta ’s side amid interest from a host of clubs across the continent.
Gyokeres has been on fire at Sporting Lisbon this season under new United head coach Ruben Amorim. And the former Coventry man scored four goals in his national team’s UEFA Nations League rout of Azerbaijan on Tuesday night.
“I know Gyokeres very well personally, I was a bit of a mentor for him when he played for Brommapojkarna, he and Ludwig Augustinsson. So, I’ve talked a lot about professional life with him,” Limpar told FotbollDirekt.
“He’s a fantastically hardworking forward who scores a lot of goals.
“If we at Arsenal [were to] buy Gyokeres, then he will definitely call me. But then to see Gyokeres at Arsenal, that would be crazy.
“His work rate, he runs like a madman. When it doesn’t work out for Viktor, he works his way into the game with uncomfortable runs.
“When other top forwards aren’t doing well, they don’t work so hard for the team, they save their energy, Viktor never saves his energy. When things are a bit slow, he works his way into a game with runs, that’s why it has gone so well.”
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Limpar also thinks that Gyokeres will have no issues adapting to life in the Premier League after successfully cutting his teeth at Coventry City in the Championship before heading to Lisbon.
He added: “We have to remember that the Portuguese league is inferior to the Premier League, but when Manchester City came to visit Lisbon, he scored a hat-trick, so he’s fully capable of scoring in England.
“He has played for Coventry and scored goals, he knows the English mentality. I think his next step is to play in the Premier League and he can really choose which team he wants to play in.”
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