Sporting Lisbon found the successor to the successor to the successor to the successor to the successor to the success. Viktor Gyökeres, who is already in the Audio report and in the playoff first leg of the Champions League, is probably required to the BVB on Tuesday (11.02.2025, here from 8.50 p.m. in the audio report and in the ticker.
Just in time for Christmas, the house blessing at Sporting Lisbon was wrong. With a 0-0 against Gil Vicente on the 15th matchday, the first time since the week of the season two was given. Of all things, city rival Benfica, who would also be the opponent in the next game.
The club responsible, which is actually called “Sporting Clube de Portugal” or “Sporting CP”, saw themselves forced to act and after only 44 days the ripcord: Joao Pereira, just the successor to the too Manchester United Dilated trainer heroes Ruben Amorim appointed, after eight games with only three wins and four defeats was sent back to Sporting’s B team.
Under Borges with four chain – and continue with Accuracy At Gyökeres
As a new man, the trend -setting Derby Rui Borges was introduced on time, which one was given by the then sixth -placed league competitor Vitoria Guimaraes had to buy free. A deal that has been worth it so far. Borges’ points cut and the way of playing are not the glory that the team had offered under Amorim, but the top game was won 1-0. In the meantime, the green-whites lead the table in Portugal’s elite class again with a four-point lead-and meet Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League playoffs.
Instead of as under Amorim, mostly with a chain of three, which turns into a chain of five against the ball, Borges with four-way defense chains act. What has remained for offensive football – and Viktor Gyökeres, pronounced, among the coach, who never fully made it into Portugal’s first league, but has remained: Sporting, for example, “Yokeresch” is the one who also ensures that the numbers are right here .
In 34 competitive games, the Swedish center forward with Hungarian roots scored 34 goals this season and played seven more. In the hunt for the Golden Shoe for Europe’s best scorer, Gyökeres is not in first place because the Portuguese league is not taken into account with a very large factor because of its supposed “weakness” as the Bundesliga.
The 26-year-old has never played there. But if you dig through one of the numerous football databases, you will quickly find the following values: 26 games and 7 goals – in the 2nd league. For FC St. Pauli in the 2019/20 season.
Via many detours to the big stage
Gyökeres is what is called a late starter in football. At least on the very big stage. At 19 he moved from his homeland to England Brighton & Hove Albionbut in the Premier League He never played. The club lends him to Hamburg first to Hamburg, then to Swansea, later to Coventry.
For Coventry, who paid a little more than a million euros for him after a half -year loan, Gyökeres scored 41 goals in 121 second division games and landed on the radar of Amorim, who was urgently looking for a real goal scorer for his team in the summer of 2023 and even cost almost 25 million euros.
So it happened that Gyökeres moved to Lisbon for almost 25 million euros in the summer of 2023. At 25 he played in a first division for the first time, scored a whopping 43 goals in 50 competitive games, scored 15 more and became champion straight away with Sporting. And his quota has not really become worse since then.
Maybe in summer to Manchester United?
The question of how it can still play this man “only” at Sporting may be on the tongue. After all, at 26 you are almost already in late summer your football career – at least in public perception. There may also be the reasons for this in the many changes of club that the 1.89-meter man has so far carried out. At least his statements on his club sound and his relationship with the fans sound excellent, in view of the sporting success is hardly surprising.
It hardly seems likely that the Swede will remain at Sporting beyond the coming summer. Already this winter there were stubborn change rumors, and an exit clause anchored in the contract is said to be 100 million euros. You won’t let him go well below. The idea that there should be interested parties with a sum of 70-80 million euros, does not require much imagination.
For England’s top clubs, that would be almost a bargain – one of his biggest sponsors is active with such a and may not be completely satisfied with the current squad. But that’s the future music.
Gyökeres as a touchstone for BVB
The present is called: Borussia Dortmund. It is called Waldemar Anton, Emre Can and Nico Schlotterbeck. In this Bundesliga season, BVB conceded 36 goals in 21 games and has now committed Niko Kovac as a coach, who is primarily intended to provide (defensive) stability. Europe’s possibly the hottest goal scorer is a touchstone that can be a sample at such an early stage. Gyökeres took his comeback on the weekend after a short injury break – and should be against BVB in the starting eleven.