Sporting CP striker Viktor Gyökeres won’t be accessible for €70 million ($80m) this summer season, the membership’s president has warned amid curiosity from Manchester United.
ESPN reported on Tuesday that United are prioritising the signing of Brentford striker Bryan Mbeumo earlier than specializing in a possible transfer for Gyökeres, with Arsenal additionally .
Nevertheless, reports in Portugal claim that Gyökeres is indignant at Sporting, believing the membership to have gone again on an settlement to permit him to maneuver for €60m plus €10m in add-ons, a lot lower than his €100m launch clause.
On Wednesday, Sporting president Frederico Varandas informed reporters: “I can assure that Viktor Gyökeres won’t depart for €60m plus €10 as a result of I by no means promised that. The sport the agent is enjoying is simply making the scenario worse.”
When requested if the membership had recieved provides for Gyökeres exceeding €60m, he stated: “Up to now, Sporting has not obtained a suggestion for Viktor Gyökeres, neither immediately nor final season.
“One factor it is best to already know is that it is best to know me higher. Threats, blackmail, and insults do not work with me. He’s a improbable skilled, however so far he has obtained zero provides. He has a three-year contract with Sporting.”
Nevertheless, Varandas stated confirmed that he did have an settlement with Gyökeres to permit him to depart for lower than his €100m launch clause.
“It was agreed that Sporting wouldn’t demand the termination clause on the finish of this season, not least as a result of he was turning 27,” Varandas stated.
“We knew Viktor’s dream was to go to a membership the place he might combat for the Champions League, and we have now frequent sense. We assured that we might not demand the €100m.
“At that assembly, the agent needed to anchor the departure to a determine, speaking about €60m, 70m … I stated, ‘There is not any level in setting a determine as a result of I do not know what’s going to occur right here in a yr’s time, if he will get injured, if he has a disappointing season.
“There is not any level in setting a determine, I do not know if it is going to be 40, 60 or 80. What I can assure is that I will not demand €100m’. From then on, I by no means spoke to the agent once more, I by no means spoke to the participant about departures or figures … 10 months have handed and I see the agent within the press giving out data right here and there, however Sporting has frequent sense, it retains its phrase.”
Gyökeres has develop into some of the coveted strikers in Europe having scored 97 instances in 102 video games for Sporting in all competitions since his arrival in July 2023 from Coventry Metropolis.