Manchester United ‘not aggressively pursuing’ Gyokeres deal | OneFootball

Manchester United are not ‘aggressively’ pursuing a deal to sign Viktor Gyokeres from Sporting Lisbon despite Ruben Amorim’s admiration of the forward.

Gyokeres is keen to leave Sporting Lisbon and has attracted interest from around Europe after a prolific spell in Portuguese football. He has scored 97 in just 102 games for Sporting and thrived under Amorim’s management before the latter’s move to Manchester United in November.

United are keen to sign a striker this summer and Gyokeres is a rumoured target. However, The Athletic journalist Laurie Whitwell has cast doubt on the club’s pursuit, insisting it is not a transfer that is being focused on as things stand.

With the Red Devils pushing to sign Bryan Mbeumo from Brentford, he said sales would be required before a genuine move for Gyokeres could take place.

“Clearly, Ruben Amorim likes Viktor Gyokeres because he’s had success with him at Sporting,” Whitwell told Stretford Paddock.

“If now, Gyokeres has changed his mind, because it feels like now maybe he has. I believed that he only wanted European football, even Champions League football, so obviously United can’t offer that. But with Arsenal seemingly going for Benjamin Sesko, it perhaps changes his viewpoint. What are the options that he genuinely has out there?

“Clearly, he wants to leave Sporting and Sporting have agreed that he can go. So I think that’s going to rumble on in the background.

“Amorim is pushing, isn’t he? He wants signings now that can come into the team and have success. He can’t have another season in the Premier League like he had last season because he will lose his job.

“I know that United want to back him and there’s no thought of that, absolutely whatsoever, they’re making these signings to support him. But if they have a run of results like last season, the pressure will become too much. He wants players who can hit the ground running and Gyokeres is seen as that kind of player.

“But, I do feel, they need to have sales first. They’ve got a whole raft of players that could go so it’s not, to my knowledge, beyond the realms of possibility. It’s just when you have these talks with people, it doesn’t feel like, at this exact moment, it’s one that’s aggressively being pursued.”

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