Arsenal is close to closing a deal to sign Viktor Gyokeres from Sporting CP, Sky Sports News understands.
It is understood that it has been agreed to pay around £ 55 million in advance for the striker.
Bringing in a striker is a primary focus for Arsenal in this transfer window – they have investigated conditions for a number of players, including RB Leipzig's Benjamin Sesko.
Sky Sports News reported in June that Gyokeres was a target of Manchester United after they had achieved a first approach for him through intermediaries.
Last month, sporting President Frederico Varandas, who would not be allowed to leave Gyokeres this summer, revealed £ 59 million (€ 70 million) after fighting the existence of a 'men's agreement' with the agent of the Swede who would allow him to leave for a fixed fee of £ 50.8 million (€ 10) in £ 8.4m (€ 10).
After he arrived at Sporting from Coventry City for around £ 20 million in 2023, Gyokeres scored an incredible 97 goals in just 102 games during his two seasons in the Portuguese capital.
Gyokees scored 54 goals in just 52 games in all the last campaign, including a hat trick against Manchester City in the Champions League, while helping winning the competition and the Portuguese Cup.
A move to Arsenal would return to Gyokeres to English football, after he joined Brighton & Hove Albion in January 2018, before moving to Coventry after Leen Proverbs in St Pauli and Swansea City.
Gyokeres scored 43 goals for Coventry in the two and a half seasons with the championship side.
How the value of gyokees has risen
Nick Wright from Sky Sports:
Sport is expected to make a huge profit on the expected sale of Gyokees.
The 27-year-old, who initially came on loan from Coventry from Brighton before he made the move permanently in 2021, has made new heights since switching to Portugal, where 97 goals were set for sport in 102 games, including 11 in 17 in European competition.
His remarkable scoring exploits in the room of two years in value became triple up to £ 75 million, according to the website transfer market, which appreciated him at less than £ 1 million when he came to Coventry from Brighton in the summer of 2021.
He has proven a late bloomer, but his rapid rise of the past seasons has put him on the shortlists of some of the largest clubs in Europe.
Gyokers will be signing of Arsenal the next summer?
Developments around Gyokeres come after Arsenal has announced the signing of midfielder Martin Zubimendi of Real Sociedad in a £ 51 million deal.
The Spain International has signed a five-year contract in the Emirates Stadium after Arsenal corresponded to the transfer in March, after he reached his £ 51 million release clause.
Zubimendi became the second signing of Arsenal this summer and joined the Fellow Spaniard Kepa Arrizabalaga in the club after his £ 5 million relocation of Chelsea.
Brentford captain Christian Norgaard could follow Zubimendi and Kepa by the Arsenal door after a £ 15 million deal had been agreed last month to sign the bee midfielder.
Arsenal seems to focus their attention on strengthening their attack now, where Chelsea expects an offer from the Gunners for Noni Madueke.
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