{"id":246342,"date":"2025-07-07T22:12:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T22:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/246342\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T22:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T22:12:14","slug":"viktor-gyokeres-arsenal-sporting-director-andrea-berta-travels-to-portugal-to-close-in-on-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/246342\/","title":{"rendered":"Viktor Gyokeres: Arsenal sporting director Andrea Berta travels to Portugal to close in on deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Arsenal sporting director Andrea Berta has held face-to-face talks with Sporting in Portugal as the Premier League club move closer towards a deal for striker Viktor Gyokeres.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cm2zv0y30jno\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC Sport revealed last Thursday<\/a> the Gunners had accelerated their interest in the Sweden international as their well-documented search for a new centre-forward reaches a climax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And well-placed sources have indicated that process saw Berta fly to the Portuguese capital towards the end of last week for key discussions with Sporting counterparts over a deal that could be worth around \u00a370m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is unclear if he returned to London over the weekend, but Berta&#8217;s Portugal trip provides a clear indication towards the level of Arsenal&#8217;s desire to finalise a deal quickly for Gyokeres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal sporting director Andrea Berta has held face-to-face talks with Sporting in Portugal as the Premier League club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-246342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114814251460912892","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246342","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=246342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}