Gyökeres before switching to Arsenal
70 million transfer before graduation
14.07.2025 – 06:45 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
FC Arsenal continues to work on the squad for the coming season. Because the goal is the championship in the Premier League. A new striker is now coming.
The change from Viktor Gyöker to Arsenal is about to be completed. This is reported, among other things, the well-informed portal “The Athletic” and transfer journalist Fabrizio Romano. Accordingly, the Swedish striker from Portuguese club Sporting costs around 63.5 million euros in fixed transfer, and there should also be a bonus payment of up to 10 million euros, so that the price for Gyökeres could increase to more than 70 million euros.
The Swede had been considered the desired striker of the “Gunners” from Nordlondon for a long time. The 27-year-old scored 39 goals in 33 games in Portugal in the past season and also scored eight more goals. In the Champions League, he was successful in eight games six times. In addition to arsenal, Manchester United is said to have been interested in him. Because there is Rúben Amorim coach, who helped Gyökeres to break through in Lisbon. “His playing style suited me perfectly,” said the striker a few days ago in an interview with the French sports newspaper “L’équipe”. “We got two championships in a row, that has not been the case for 71 years. Rúben Amorim had a huge part in it. I can’t thank him enough.”
Gyökeres, who, by the way, stormed for FC St. Pauli in Germany from 2019 to 2020, shot most of the competitive goals of all strikers in Europe in the calendar year 2024 and drew attention to himself. So now he starts the chapter Premier League. The change is not yet very fixed, the medical check is still missing. Because Gyökeres should complete in the coming days.