Arsenal insist on signing sporty striker Viktor Gyokeres with conversations that are at an advanced stage.
There is no club-to-club agreement, but there is a clear willingness from all parties to get a deal.
Arsenal is supposed to be encouraged by the wish of the 27-year-old to become a member, with personal conditions that are not expected to be a problem.
In a new development, Sporting Gyokeres has given permission to postpone his return before the preseason.
The Sweden International would come back on Monday – a week after some of his teammates – but he was now given until Friday as conversations with Arsenal Progress.
However, there is no certainty that he will return at all.
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 revealed that Gyokeres could not leave for £ 59 million (€ 70 million) this summer.
Varandas also disputed the existence of a 'men's agreement' with the agent of Gyokeres who would enable him to leave for a fixed reimbursement of £ 50.8 million (€ 60 million) plus £ 8.4 million (€ 10 million) in add-ons.
After he had arrived at Sporting from Coventry in 2023 for around £ 20 million, Gyokeres scored 97 goals in 102 games during his two seasons in Portugal.
Gyokeres scored 54 goals in 52 games in all competitions 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 see Gyokeres return to English football, after he joined Brighton in January 2018 before moving to Coventry after Leen Proverbs in St Pauli and Swansea.
Gyokees scored 43 goals for Coventry in the two and a half seasons at the championship.
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.
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