Man United owner Ready to SPLASH Huge amount of € on the best Top 9. Man united receive Viktor Gyokeres transfer boost as new valuation emerges
Man United owner Ready to SPLASH Huge amount of € on the best Top 9. Man united receive Viktor Gyokeres transfer boost as new valuation emerges
Incoming Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim has offered his thoughts on the prospects of reuniting with Viktor Gyokeres at Old Trafford – but insisted he could land himself in hot water if he speaks out about the Swede and amid claims he is one of THREE Sporting Lisbon stars he wants to bring with him to the Premier League.
The 39-year-old coach has been chosen as the new manager of Manchester United, in succession to the sacked Erik ten Hag, and will take up his new position from Monday. Amorim has very quickly underlined exactly why he is so highly rated in the game by masterminding his side’s 4-1 destruction of Manchester City in the Champions League on Tuesday night in his penultimate match in charge of Sporting Libson.
While that has whetted the appetite of what United fans can come to expect, Amorim has very quickly played down suggestions that the Red Devils will simply be able to perform to that level overnight.
Nonetheless, excitement is growing over the level of manager that United are getting, with Sporting CP not just riding high in their respective Champions League and Primeira Liga tables, but also playing a brand of football which is extremely pleasing on the eye.
One of those men who have been key to his recent success is Gyokeres, with the Sweden striker scoring a hat-trick on Tuesday night to take his tally for the season to 23 from just 17 appearances.
And with the 26-year-old already having been linked with a move to United alongside Amorim, the 39-year-old coach has now addressed those rumours with a little hint at where the land lies with the player.
“If I start joking about this Gyokeres situation I’ll get in trouble,” Amorim told Portuguese outlet A Bola. “This is my city, this is my country, so I’ll respect it. Viktor has to stay until the end of the season and then his life will probably go somewhere else.”
Rio raves over Gyokeres as striker discusses Amorim’s Man Utd move
While Amorim understandably has to use diplomacy while being asked about signing Gyokeres – or indeed any of the Sporting players he is leaving behind – Rio Ferdinand has made clear his wishes for United to sign the striker in 2025 and reckons several Premier League sides will be left scratching their heads at how they let him slip under their radar.
“The recruitment teams in all the clubs in the Premier League must be scratching their heads about how they let him get away,” Ferdinand told TNT Sport.
“He hasn’t had a conventional route, his route to the top hasn’t been straightforward.
“He was at Brighton as a kid, sold to Coventry, went on loan to Swansea, goes back to Coventry and does well, then goes to Sporting Lisbon.
“He has had a journey where he has had to build himself and create what he is now.
“You think ‘How has he been allowed to get out?’, all of a sudden when are seeing what he has got, maybe he has grown into what he is, the confidence, stature he has, the physicality, he might have had to wait for that to come.
“A few times today he blew away from players, holding people off.”
Amorim has already stated he won’t raid his former club for any player in the January window, though trusted journalist Florian Plettenberg has revealed that sources have told him that a move for Gyokeres is very much on the cards.
