Arsenal Complete £64m Deal To Sign Striker Viktor Gyökeres From Sporting

Arsenal person yet solved their striker conundrum by completing nan signing of Viktor Gyökeres from Sporting for an first £55m.

The 27-year-old Sweden international, who fired Sporting to nan title past play pinch 39 goals and struck a Champions League hat-trick against Manchester City, is understood to person signed a five-year woody astatine nan Emirates.

Gyökeres’ transfer, which could extremity up costing arsenic overmuch arsenic £64m pinch performance-related add-ons, takes Arsenal’s close-season spending to nan region of £200m.

He becomes Mikel Arteta’s sixth summertime signing and follows defender Cristhian Mosquera (£13m), midfielder Martin Zubimendi (£60m), goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga (£5m), midfielder Christian Nørgaard (£10m) and guardant Noni Madueke (£48.5m) successful moving to northbound London.

Arsenal confirmed nan news pinch a little station connected X that read: “This is wherever you request to be. Viktor Gyökeres is simply a Gunner.”

Gyökeres will beryllium expected to meet his caller colleagues successful Arsenal’s ongoing pre-season circuit of Singapore and Hong Kong. The Gunners look Newcastle successful nan Singapore National Stadium connected Sunday earlier nan concluding crippled of their tour, against Tottenham successful Hong Kong connected 31 July.

Manager Arteta said: “Viktor has truthful galore qualities. He is simply a speedy and powerful beingness up front, pinch unthinkable goalscoring numbers astatine nine and world levels. He brings a objective separator pinch a precocious conversion complaint of chances into goals, pinch his intelligent activity successful nan container making him a changeless threat.

“We’re excited astir what Viktor brings to our squad and are looking guardant to commencement moving pinch him.”

Gyökeres moved to Brighton from Swedish broadside Brommapojkarna successful January 2018, but spent clip connected indebtedness astatine St Pauli and past Swansea and Coventry, earlier making a imperishable move to nan Sky Blues successful July 2021.

After Coventry were beaten connected penalties by Luton successful nan 2023 Championship playoff last astatine Wembley, Gyökeres completed a £20.5m move to Sporting. He scored 97 goals successful 102 matches for nan Portuguese side.

Arsenal spent nan concluding months of past play without a recognised striker pursuing semipermanent injuries to Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz. Even earlier then, Arsenal were successful request of a reliable scorer, and Arteta will dream his caller signing tin occurrence him to his first silverware since he won nan FA Cup successful 2020, and extremity nan club’s two-decade hold for a Premier League title.

Arsenal’s caller sporting director, Andrea Berta, has wasted small clip successful strengthening a squad which has vanished runners-up successful nan convention for nan past 3 seasons.
Gabriel Magalhães and Myles Lewis-Skelly person besides put pen to insubstantial connected caller contracts successful nan off-season, pinch a semipermanent hold for teen Ethan Nwaneri believed to beryllium all-but completed.