Pep Guardiola HIJACKS Man Utd talks for Viktor Gyokeres

Carlo Garganese

• Updated: 3 Dec 2024 06:32 GMT
• 3 min read

Pep Guardiola has hijacked Manchester United's talks to sign Viktor Gyokeres from Sporting Lisbon.

According to Florian Pettenberg, Man City and Guardiola have intensified their efforts in recent days to bring Gyokeres to the club in 2025.

This comes as a blow to Man Utd, who Pettenberg also reports are now in concrete talks to sign Gyokeres at the end of the season.

Pettenberg says that United are now fully involved in discussions for the Sweden goal machine, who exploded into one of Europe's best strikers at Sporting under new Man Utd manager Ruben Amorim.

United must first sell players, though, before they can afford to buy Gyokeres.

Gyokeres was prolific under Amorim at Sporting over their 15 months together prior to the manager’s move to United last month.

Gyokeres currently has a €100 million release clause in his Sporting contract and, although there have been reports that the clause will be officially or unofficially lowered before the summer, AS claim that United would be prepared to pay the three-figure sum in order to guarantee getting their man.

City, meanwhile, are preparing themselves for a transfer revolution at the end of the season as an ageing side begins to decline.

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Gyokeres on fire

Gyokeres is the hottest striking property around right now and has made an incredible start to the new season, already scoring 24 goals in 21 games in all competitions.

This follows on from his brilliant form from last season for Sporting where he scored 43 goals in all competitions for his club.

The likes of Arsenal, Chelsea, PSG, Real Madrid and Barcelona are also very interested in Gyokeres.

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Gyokeres is expected to be sold by Sporting at the end of the 2024-25 season in order for the Sweden international to make the next step in his career.

Man Utd remain favourites to sign him due to the presence of Amorim, who has made it clear that he wants his new club to go all-out and sign the striker.