Arsenal are in \u201cvery advanced\u201d negotiations with Viktor Gyokeres\u2019 representatives as they look to beat Manchester United in the race to sign the striker.<\/p>\n
The Gunners<\/strong><\/a> desperately need to sign a new striker as their failures in the transfer market in recent windows held them back during the 2024\/25 campaign.<\/p>\n Injuries to Kai Havertz and Gabriel Jesus left Mikel Arteta<\/strong><\/a> without a recognised striker and Arsenal\u2019s hierarchy are keen to avoid a repeat of this situation next season.<\/p>\n Arsenal have been linked with several potential targets, but Gyokeres and RB Leipzig\u2019s Benjamin Sesko appear to be their preferred options.<\/p>\n Gyokeres has cemented himself as Europe\u2019s most prolific striker at Sporting Lisbon, scoring 54 goals in all competitions during the 2024\/25 campaign to become a candidate to be this year\u2019s leading scorer across the top ten divisions.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Transfer rumour power ranking: Man Utd target cheap midfielder, Sporting firm on Gyokeres<\/a> Sesko is another long-term Arsenal target as he\u2019s one of the standout young strikers in Europe after his 21-goal campaign for RB Leipzig.<\/p>\n Recent reports have indicated that the Gunners are leaning towards signing Sesko, but one issue is said to be \u2018jeopardising\u2019 a potential switch to the Emirates.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear whether this has altered Arsenal\u2019s stance on their preferred striker signing, but a report from Portuguese journalist\u00a0Nuno Farinha on Wednesday claimed they are \u2018very advanced\u2019 in talks to sign Gyokeres and a new \u2018meeting\u2019 has taken place as the two sides look to thrash out a deal.<\/p>\n Man Utd are also pursuing Gyokeres, with a report claiming they \u2018would like\u2019 him over a pricey alternative, but Farinha claims the Sporting Lisbon star has always \u201cdesired\u201d a move to Arsenal.<\/p>\n MORE ARSENAL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<\/strong> Farinha revealed:\u00a0\u201cThe talks with Arsenal are not new but they have now become more formal since the Gy\u00f6keres situation became the situation it was.<\/p>\n \u201cThe meeting is currently taking place. Gy\u00f6keres\u2019 agent is currently meeting with the owners of Arsenal to try to speed up this process. I don\u2019t know exactly what the amounts are or what amounts are on the table.<\/p>\n \u201cArsenal is the club that Gy\u00f6keres has wanted from the very beginning. Gy\u00f6keres wants to play for Arsenal, that\u2019s his desire. He was very open about it to his agent.<\/p>\n \u201cNo formal proposal has arrived at Sporting. This time it seems that there will be, because things with Arsenal are already very advanced and it seems to me that there is a great desire to speed up this process. That is why a meeting is taking place at this moment.<\/p>\n \u201cI believe it is in London, which is why I mentioned the issue of British punctuality. Basically, what is important from now on is to understand how this meeting went and how Arsenal will prepare for what we already know is Sporting\u2019s position. \u20ac60m plus \u20ac10m is out of the question.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal are in \u201cvery advanced\u201d negotiations with Viktor Gyokeres\u2019 representatives as they look to beat Manchester United in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[161,225,98,12,101,79,16,15,165],"class_list":{"0":"post-176700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-home-page","10":"tag-manchester-united","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-premier-league","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-viktor-gyokeres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114666889812315693","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176700","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=176700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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