Viktor Gyokees will be confronted with a 'big fine' for his actions in going AWOL from a camp for the season to try by forcing his transfer to Arsenal, while the Gunners look at it
Sporting CP will punish Viktor Gyokeres after he broke their training camp for the season in the Algarve in his last attempt to go through a move of £ 69 million to Arsenal. The sports team left the Academia Cristiano Ronaldo around 5:35 pm local time for Lagos, near Faro without their Talismian goal scorer, who is now confronted with disciplinary measures after he has chosen to stay with his family in Sweden.
The Sporting players were asked to report at 4.30 pm, but not surprising, Gyokeres did not show, nor he arrived in the hourly window that followed before the team bus finally left.
The sporting President Frederico Varandas later said about the offer of Arsenal: “If they do not want to pay Viktor's fair market value, we will be very comfortable with it for the next three years. This strategy also makes it more complicated for the player to leave. No one is over the interests of the club. Who they are.
Gyokeres has now also claimed that he has unfinished things in the Premier League that also skipped on the training on Friday.
The Swedish international, who never played in the top-flight, despite the fact that he made eight performances for Brighton, said when he was asked for a potential return to England: “It is one of the biggest competitions in Europe. I spent a few years there without playing a single game, so it would of course be something that I would like to do!”
Arsenal officials spent last weekend in Lisbon with an attempt to perform a deal during face-to-face conversations and although negotiations remain advanced, they still have to shake hands with sport.
Their offer is supposed to be worth a first £ 56 million plus a maximum of £ 13 million in add-ons, but the Portuguese champions want £ 60m in advance before bonuses and a request that the Gunners still have to match.
The interview of France Football with Gyokeres took place at the end of May, but was published in L'Equipe on Saturday to add further fuel to the fire and to rub salt in sporty wounds.
When asked by France Football which players in Europe had made an impression on him, the ex-Coventry and Swansea attacker three Arsenal-Star's name came that he could soon call teammates.
Gyokeres, who also stated that he wants to play for 'a club that really wants him', revealed: 'midfielders such as Bernardo Silva and Mateo Kovacic in Manchester City of Bukayo Saka in Arsenal are impressive to watch.
“I also confronted with a very high level defenders, such as Gabriel Magalhaes and William Saliba, it is an opportunity to play against that kind of players.”
Gyokeres – Scorer of 97 goals in 102 sporting performances in the past two seasons – it insists that he must now be considered one of the best strikers in world football.
He added when he was asked what he makes of comparisons with Erling Haaland and Robert Lewandowski: “I am sure one of them. It's hard to label myself, but yes, I am now at the same table as she is.
“They are extraordinary players, at the highest level for many years, who have proven themselves much more than me.” What I achieved during sport, I am convinced that I can reach everywhere. “They haven't seen the best of Gyökeres yet.”