Not sure, but maybe the quality is more like the Eredivisie. Bas Dost was prolific there with Sporting as well.
Viktor Gyökeres - Arsenal Player
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He has been described as a force of nature in Portugal. He had a physical advantage there and he played for a team that was setup to maximize his strengths. He struggles in tight spaces but does well in a more open environment where he could run onto balls. He could be a good option for this Arsenal team for certain approaches. Or for situations when they are up and expect the opponent to come onto them. But at the price, everybody expects him to be a great 9 that does well in every situation. Thats probably not a realistic scenario. I am glad we didn't go for him because such a scenario is always on the cards with strikers where you don't know how they will do in a different league and under different pressure. That being said - we may have the same issue with Sesko.
He is a far greater physical threat than Gyokeres, and that alone would be very useful for Arsenal. That’s how they want to play, so it’s a fit.
Lukaku has over 400 career goals by the way
I know we don’t have good memories of him, but he there have only been a handful of players more prolific than him in the last 30 years.Amazing, innit. Until the Saudi move for Neymar, he was the most expensive footballer of all time. More money spent on his transfers than anybody ever. He might still be #2, not sure.He is a far greater physical threat than Gyokeres, and that alone would be very useful for Arsenal. That’s how they want to play, so it’s a fit.
Lukaku has over 400 career goals by the way
Im sure half the sell of Arsenal getting an out and out striker was to turn the draws into wins. He's done it once from the penalty spot at Everton to my knowledge.
3 league goals from open play for the current best team in Europe (they say)
He is pretty floppy....
Sorry, but the only thing that has saved him thus far is Arsenal being comfortable enough in the league to carry him. Now that they are starting to fret and other players need some help, the amount of criticism for him is going to hit exponential growth because they actually need that striker who can carry burden and alleviate pressure and they don't have it in him.
He's been one of the worst big buys the league has seen up to this point in time. If he's not in the xi, he's certainly knocking on the door.
The chance that fell to him in injury time, never in doubt he would fluff it.
He seems two steps behind the play every time.
He seems two steps behind the play every time.
His body is two steps behind where a better striker would be because he's lugging so much pointless weight around. His brain is two steps behind that.
Arteta thought he was getting Bane. But its more like Mr Bean.
I was unhappy he was benched for Jesus. That says it all. He is going to be sold in 2 years to a german or italian side.
I was over the moon when he was subbed on.
I remember watching his all of his goals on YouTube when we were linked with him and goal after goal thinking ‘he doesn’t get that much space in the prem’, ‘he doesn’t get that time’, ‘that’s not a goal in the prem’ and he’s absolutely been found out.
In fairness I did the same with Sekso and I’m not convinced he was the right signing but I’ll take him over Gyokeres
In fairness I did the same with Sekso and I’m not convinced he was the right signing but I’ll take him over Gyokeres
Same. And when I pointed out that like a third of his goals last season were penalties, some people insisted that a goal is a goal. That just really isn’t the case.
I honestly thought he would kill it here. Seemed to have a knack of scoring goals and just so clinical with his finishing. Wanted him at United so bad, glad he picked Arsenal now.
Looks kinda lost? His confidence is in the gutter too.
Looks kinda lost? His confidence is in the gutter too.
He's not cut out for this level. A real fraud.
He's lucky Arsenal have been able to carry him, and that he signed in the same window as Wirtz and Isak who have been bigger flops than him. But he's really, really limited.
I expected him not to score but he somehow still managed to surprise me with his shitness by kicking the ball away from the goal. Literally flew backwards off his foot. Amazing stuff.
As someone said he is just the player version of Amorim.
Both totally found out by the level of the Premiership.
It was glorious. Helping us to clear the ball at such a crucial time.
Would love to know what he was trying to do with that late chance. Foul or not, it was just terrible.
What’s been an absolute killer for him is coming into the season woefully unprepared. The unprofessional nature of his summer really has proven costly, because he, more than anyone, needed to come in in tip top condition and try and get with the flow of the league before it really got underway. Maybe he could have formulated a better understanding of what he needed to do to offset his own limitations that way, but instead, he’s just being dragged along completely shellshocked and shorn of his confidence.
He’s at the stage now where you reckon he doesn’t want the ball to keep coming his way. He’s been shocking, but I still don’t think he’s as bad as he’s playing, but again it would be almost unprecedented for someone to be *that* bad and turn it around and make a solid career at the same club.
He’s at the stage now where you reckon he doesn’t want the ball to keep coming his way. He’s been shocking, but I still don’t think he’s as bad as he’s playing, but again it would be almost unprecedented for someone to be *that* bad and turn it around and make a solid career at the same club.
Arsenal is exactly the wrong team for him. I thought at the start of the season that Arsenal would have to play a different style of football for him to have any chance, and I still think that's true. On the contrary, Arsenal have doubled down on the style of football they've shown over the last few seasons. He's not a goalmouth poacher and his link up play is poor in tight spaces. Rather he's a channel runner who needs a transitional team to help him find space. Playing him as number 9 in a team that will spend most of the game camped in the opposition penalty area slinging in high balls was bound to fail.
He is a bum.
Not really seeing positive signs with him.
That lack of composure at the end was poor for an experienced player. (Though he'd fouled anyway so it didn't matter)
That lack of composure at the end was poor for an experienced player. (Though he'd fouled anyway so it didn't matter)
Did not expect him to be anywhere near this bad. Imagine if we had replaced Hojlund with an older version of Hojlund?!
I remember seeing a Sporting fan on here talk about him being their greatest and it looked like he was prime R9 out in Portugal, so I am not surprised. He looks so bad this season and that "finish" at the end summed him up. So happy to see another team have to suffer with some donkeys.
I remember seeing a Sporting fan on here talk about him being their greatest and it looked like he was prime R9 out in Portugal, so I am not surprised. He looks so bad this season and that "finish" at the end summed him up. So happy to see another team have to suffer with some donkeys.
What was he even trying to do at the end?
It's baffling.
It's baffling.
Imagine he was putting out these performances in a Man Utd shirt? We'd be getting all the blame. Thank God he chose Arsenal.
Only reasonable explanation is that he was trying to square it. The angle he puts on it, he couldn't possibly have meant as a shot. I also think it's probably the right instinct with Lammens charging out and Saka being in acres of space. The baffling thing is how much power he put into it.
Yeah that's it, he's trying to slide it towards the penalty spot, but it's so poorly executed, it's comical.
Probably, it was just a hilariously bad attempt at whatever it was.
He was trying to square it without doubt, it was a terrible attempt for sure.
Whats funny is despite his terrible form he is still Arsenal's top scorer in the league with Trossard, Arsenal's a funny one top of the league none of the forward players are in any type of form will that catch up with them you'd have throught so
This is priceless, absolutely hilarious! Would love to know the Arsenal fans reaction to this
If they had a consistent team behind them, I'd be super worried as an Arsenal fan. But I don't trust City or Villa to put together enough consecutive wins to really challenge them.
Arsenal probably win the league with fewer points than what they got in 22/23 and 23/24 (84 and 89 respectively).
We really dodged a bullet. Hes not up to this level at all. I'd be surprised if he's still at Arsenal in 12-18 months.
Should relabel that as “Gyokeres shot/pass/clearance”
Confirmation that scoring 385 league goals in one season in Portugal can be misleading. Well done again Sporting, and the drama around it as well. At least Sesko is young and can improve. Gyk will go to WestHam in a couple of season once they admit their costly mistake.
The Swedish Wout Weghorst.
£65 million. Luving it.
£65 million. Luving it.
Even if did do something with his chance at the end, it was a foul. The big clumsy fool clattered into a United defender.
The amount of bedwetting in the Gyökeres transfer thread was hilarious.
I've never seen so many people be so wrong about such an average at best player!
If you are 26 years old and all you have to show for your career is two good seasons in the Championship and two in the Portuguese league then there's a good reason for that!
Outside of the big three in Portugal and possibly Braga, the rest of the clubs are very very low quality. I'd argue that the league as a whole is a step down from the Championship.
Brighton, a club that famously brings through young players had a good luck at Gyökeres and could see he was nowhere near good enough.
It's truly baffling that Arsenal signed him!
On course for 83 pts. Which I think is probably good enough, hard to see either Villa or City getting 37 out of 45 to match them to begin with, nvm more than that.
Funnily enough, 83 is also the maximum we can get. In some alternative universe, Earth-11123679 Carrick led Utd to an upset league title with a perfect record, pipping Arsenal by 1 GD.