{"id":110490,"date":"2025-05-18T01:38:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T01:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/110490\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T01:38:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T01:38:21","slug":"arsenal-transfer-target-scores-again-in-blow-to-mohamed-salah-as-striker-fires-side-to-league-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/110490\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal transfer target scores again in blow to Mohamed Salah as striker fires side to league title"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sporting Lisbon star Viktor Gyokeres could soon win the European Golden Boot after adding to his incredible tally.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Swedish striker<\/a> scored his side’s second in a 2-0 win against Vitoria S.C. on Saturday evening to fire Sporting to back-to-back Primeira Liga titles.<\/p>\n

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Gyokeres scored a fine goal to help Sporting win the leagueCredit: AFP<\/p>\n

Gyokeres has now reached the 53-goal mark this season in all competitions, with 39 of those being scored in the Portuguese top-flight.<\/p>\n

And his latest finish, which followed a skilful run inside the opposition box, has extended his European Golden Boot goal lead.<\/p>\n

Real Madrid marskman Kylian Mbappe and Liverpool winger Mohamed Salah<\/a> share second spot in the standings on 28 goals each with two league games left for them to play.<\/p>\n

But it seems to be an almost impossible task for the pair to win the prestigious award.<\/p>\n

Barring incredible performances from Mbappe or Salah, Gyokeres could be the first winner outside of Europe’s top five leagues in 23 years.<\/p>\n

Mario Jardel was the last player to achieve this feat when he netted 42 goals in the 2001\/02 season, coincidentally for Sporting.<\/p>\n

The scoring system awards 1.5 points for goals scored outside the top five leagues, leaving Gyokeres on 58.5.<\/p>\n

Premier League, LaLiga, Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1 goals are worth two pints, so Mbappe and Salah each have 56 points.<\/p>\n

Gyokeres has one last chance to score even more goals this season as his side face Benfica in the Taca de Portugal final on May 25.<\/p>\n

It could also be the 26-year-old’s final appearance in Sporting colours as the striker may be set to complete a move to the Premier League.<\/p>\n

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Gyokeres has scored 96 goals for Sporting and is set to win the Golden BootCredit: Getty\"He<\/a><\/p>\n

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He is ahead of Salah in the European scoring chartsCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

talkSPORT understands that English top flight clubs believe Arsenal<\/a> will win the race<\/a> for Gyokeres this summer.<\/p>\n

The former Coventry City star is a priority target for Gunners boss Mikel Arteta and is open to joining the north London side.<\/p>\n

Arsenal have held long-term interest in Gyokeres, with Manchester United also keen on the Swede.<\/p>\n

However, despite previously working with United head coach Ruben Amorim at Sporting, he would prefer a move to Arsenal.<\/p>\n

talkSPORT reported in March that Sporting are willing to sell their star man for around \u00a358.5million.<\/p>\n

This is about \u00a325m below his release clause at the Portuguese giants.<\/p>\n

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Arteta could soon welcome one of the best strikers in EuropeCredit: GettyDream XI with 50-goal star and Euros winners can finally win Arsenal another Premier League title <\/p>\n

Gyokeres was previously in the Premier League with Brighton.<\/p>\n

But he did not make an appearance and was a three-time unused substitute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sporting Lisbon star Viktor Gyokeres could soon win the European Golden Boot after adding to his incredible tally.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[161,50139,94,1128,50138,79,16,15,50137],"class_list":{"0":"post-110490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-european-golden-boot","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-mohamed-salah","12":"tag-sporting-lisbon","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-viktor-gyokerers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114526284185745735","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}