Viktor Gyokeres has already picked his next club

Robin Bairner

19 Apr 2025 12:15 BST
4 min read

Viktor Gyokeres has been subject to a transfer raid from Chelsea, but the Sporting CP player already knows where he wants to play his football next season.

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Gyokeres, 26, has been subject to intense transfer rumours for more than a year, yet after scoring 47 goals in 46 games for Sporting this season these have been taken up to a new level.

Current ETV

Viktor Gyökeres

F (C)

Sporting CP

Viktor Gyökeres

F (C)

Sporting CP

ETV Range

€67.5M - €82.5M

The Lisbon club were determined to hold onto their ace last summer as they demanded a price for more than €100 million for him, which was sufficient to keep the likes of Arsenal at bay.

But as the Sweden international’s form has picked up, his transfer fee has dropped due to an agreement with the player to allow him to depart should a suitable offer around the value of €70-80m be tabled. Given Gyokeres has an Estimated Transfer Value (ETV) of €75m, this looks a strong price.

Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United are all closely associated with the player, who A Bola claims has already made his mind up over a transfer in the summer.

Gyokeres prefers Arsenal to Chelsea

The Portuguese source states that while the Blues are making a comparatively late effort to sign Gyokeres, he would prefer to sign for Arsenal, Liverpool or Manchester City.

A move to Chelsea, however, should not be ruled out entirely. The Stamford Bridge club pulled off something of a transfer miracle to stop Geovany Quenda from signing for Manchester United by signing him themselves.

This was achieved by allowing the teenager to remain another season in Portugal, which was something the Red Devils were not willing to do.

STATS

Viktor Gyökeres

F (C)

Sporting CP

Viktor Gyökeres

F (C)

Sporting CP

46

Games
47

Goals
10

Assists

It’s unclear what type of leverage that Chelsea might try to use over Arsenal, who are currently in a stronger sporting position than the Stamford Bridge club and have quite clearly made Gyokeres their centre-forward target since Andrea Berta arrived as sporting director.

The Gunners, therefore, hold all the cards when it comes to signing the Sporting hitman and, finally, signing the high-scoring No.9 that manager Mikel Arteta’s side so clearly needs.

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