Viktor Gyökeres | Arsenal Player

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Daydreamer said:
"No excuses now", is just an easy thing to say to find a negative angle on broadly positive news.

ClubApprox. Total Spend
Liverpool£254.5 m – £295.9 m
Manchester City£260 m
Chelsea£198 m – £227 m
Arsenal£118.5 m

By the time the transfer window closes, last year's top 4 will have spent well over a billion. There "no excuses" for all four, but only one is going to win.
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I think your city outlay is short according to ESPN.

Having spent £175.9m on four signings (Nico González, Omar Marmoush, Abdukodir Khusanov and Vitor Reis) in January, City's outlay so far in 2025 is an incredible £295.9m. It is clear that its Abu Dhabi hierarchy is determined to reclaim the club's position at the summit of the Premier League after Liverpool ended its four-season winning streak last season.
 
Apparently it's all agreed now.
Centikaya's spokesperson just tweeted this:

"⚪️ BREAKING: Viktor Gyökeres, new Arsenal player as every document has now been approved and exchanged.

Arsenal and Sporting completed the process with formal authorization to travel — medical to start in next 24h.

Gyökeres, coming soon. "
 
Daydreamer said:
"No excuses now", is just an easy thing to say to find a negative angle on broadly positive news.

ClubApprox. Total Spend
Liverpool£254.5 m – £295.9 m
Manchester City£260 m
Chelsea£198 m – £227 m
Arsenal£118.5 m

By the time the transfer window closes, last year's top 4 will have spent well over a billion. There "no excuses" for all four, but only one is going to win.
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You’re doing this wrong

It’s USD so should be 400.9m
 
Seems we missed this deal. We are stuck hoping Hojlund “clicks” during his 3rd campaign with us.
 
croadyman said:
We missed it because lost to Spurs, end of story
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Partly, but even if we'd won that game, we don't look anywhere near the stable, title-challenging opportunity that Arsenal do.

It's pretty sickening how crap the situation is, but I'm strapping in for the long haul. This build is going to take a good few seasons, even if Amorim is the right manager to lead it.
 
Can these lazy idiots over at Arsenal confirm the transfer already!? I'm waiting to add him to my FPL team. :lol:

Opening day game against his former manager, against a team that is out of sorts and him being fully motivated to play for Arsenal. Surely he's scoring a hattrick. :smirk:
 
saik said:
Can these lazy idiots over at Arsenal confirm the transfer already!? I'm waiting to add him to my FPL team. :lol:

Opening day game against his former manager, against a team that is out of sorts and him being fully motivated to play for Arsenal. Surely he's scoring a hattrick. :smirk:
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Well they have to pay what Sporting want first...
Supposedly he's going to travel to London tomorrow, but according to reports here in Portugal, Sporting haven't authorized it yet.
 
Here's Ben Jacobs breakdown of the add-ons and overall transfer numbers:

More on Viktor Gyokeres’ move to Arsenal. Package is €63.5m fixed and €10m in add-ons, as revealed earlier this month.

Understand breakdown of the add-ons are:
- Every 20 games (45’+): €1.25m, up to a limit of €5m.
- Every 20 goal contributions: €500k, up to a limit of €1m.
- Every seasonal qualification for the #UCL league phase: €1m, up to a limit of €4m.

So it's going to take at least 4 years to get all those add-ons, with a maximum of 4.5 million when this season ends.
 
Sporting4Ever said:
Here's Ben Jacobs breakdown of the add-ons and overall transfer numbers:

More on Viktor Gyokeres’ move to Arsenal. Package is €63.5m fixed and €10m in add-ons, as revealed earlier this month.

Understand breakdown of the add-ons are:
- Every 20 games (45’+): €1.25m, up to a limit of €5m.
- Every 20 goal contributions: €500k, up to a limit of €1m.
- Every seasonal qualification for the #UCL league phase: €1m, up to a limit of €4m.

So it's going to take at least 4 years to get all those add-ons, with a maximum of 4.5 million when this season ends.
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All this seems to be relatively easy add-ons. Nothing about Arsenal winning the UCL or him making BO top 5, among other stuff rumored on Twitter ?
 
Gyökeres just landed at Luton airport, ready for the medical tomorrow.
 
Pintu said:
All this seems to be relatively easy add-ons. Nothing about Arsenal winning the UCL or him making BO top 5, among other stuff rumored on Twitter ?
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I think it covers him being a complete flop, and/or getting a serious injury, but yeah, if he's half decent and Arsenal don't completely fall apart as a club then it will all get paid.
I'm not convinced that he's going to seriously move the dial for Arsenal to be honest.
 
Pintu said:
All this seems to be relatively easy add-ons. Nothing about Arsenal winning the UCL or him making BO top 5, among other stuff rumored on Twitter ?
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Sporting wanted easier objectives, which they are, but more spread than what was likely initially proposed.

NicolaSacco said:
I think it covers him being a complete flop, and/or getting a serious injury, but yeah, if he's half decent and Arsenal don't completely fall apart as a club then it will all get paid.
I'm not convinced that he's going to seriously move the dial for Arsenal to be honest.
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Case is point

 
ArtetasHair said:
You in the EPL would be mid-table at best. Let's not send out immature childish memes.
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Actually no, we wouldn't.
You forget just how much money the Premier League generates an how higher wages and fees are there.
Sporting's transfer budget has been steadily increasing as we're doing better in recent years, but it's still miles bellow what even the lower EPL clubs spend.
Last year we spent around 60 million euros, the year before about 55.
Gyökeres cost us 24 million euros, and that was tied as the most expensive player we bought (the other being Ugarte also for 24M).

Sunderland, which has been promoted to the EPL this year, has spent nearly 120 million this summer.
Premier League teams receive at least that each year from TV rights alone. Sporting made a TV deal about 10 years ago for over 500 million euros. For 10 years. That's about a third of what a similar EPL club gets.

So let's not compare two things that are in very different levels, because if Sporting was an English club we'd be at virtually the same level as you. Hell, given our history and trying to draw parallels between Portugal and England, a lot of people say we are you. ;)
 
Looks like Gyökeres is leading by "example"...



If this becomes a regular thing clubs are gonna have to take steps.
 
Sporting4Ever said:
Looks like Gyökeres is leading by "example"...



If this becomes a regular thing clubs are gonna have to take steps.
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It might be better for players and clubs to put realistic release clauses in their contracts. For example, £68m for Eze is more than Arsenal may want to pay, but is a fair enough figure for Palace to point to and say, “If they truly valued you, you would cough up”.

But release clauses that are too high, as many are, are meaningless. And gentleman’s agreements that end up being too low, either because the player outperforms or the market overheats, just end up being ignored by the club.

If Levy did go back on his word with Kane as was reported, Kane’s only recourse would have been to down tools. Levy knows Kane won’t do that, so there is no disincentive for him refusing to honour the deal.
 
Daydreamer said:
It might be better for players and clubs to put realistic release clauses in their contracts. For example, £68m for Eze is more than Arsenal may want to pay, but is a fair enough figure for Palace to point to and say, “If they truly valued you, you would cough up”.

But release clauses that are too high, as many are, are meaningless. And gentleman’s agreements that end up being too low, either because the player outperforms or the market overheats, just end up being ignored by the club.

If Levy did go back on his word with Kane as was reported, Kane’s only recourse would have been to down tools. Levy knows Kane won’t do that, so there is no disincentive for him refusing to honour the deal.
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There's already examples of that, some players have specific clauses with certain values that are only valid at certain times.
The problem is when a player's value increases in a short period of time. How can you adjust when the value doubles over the course of one season, for example?
 
I am happy with our signings but when you look at the signing of gyökeres and what City and Liverpool are doing its hard to imagine that we can close the gap. But who knows - in the end we had enough big name signings like Sancho et al where you thought that will be a success - hope for once its our competitors who get fecked
 
Sporting4Ever said:
Looks like Gyökeres is leading by "example"...



If this becomes a regular thing clubs are gonna have to take steps.
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You're totally right. It's never been done before Gyokeres, first time in history a player resorted to unsavory methods ;)
 
Sporting4Ever said:
Actually no, we wouldn't.
You forget just how much money the Premier League generates an how higher wages and fees are there.
Sporting's transfer budget has been steadily increasing as we're doing better in recent years, but it's still miles bellow what even the lower EPL clubs spend.
Last year we spent around 60 million euros, the year before about 55.
Gyökeres cost us 24 million euros, and that was tied as the most expensive player we bought (the other being Ugarte also for 24M).

Sunderland, which has been promoted to the EPL this year, has spent nearly 120 million this summer.
Premier League teams receive at least that each year from TV rights alone. Sporting made a TV deal about 10 years ago for over 500 million euros. For 10 years. That's about a third of what a similar EPL club gets.

So let's not compare two things that are in very different levels, because if Sporting was an English club we'd be at virtually the same level as you. Hell, given our history and trying to draw parallels between Portugal and England, a lot of people say we are you. ;)
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My point was tongue in cheek but I mean it's a tired trope. We are not like Spurs. We are the third most decorated club in England for league titles and it took an all time great like Sir Alex to overtake our haul and then overtake Liverpool's, and we have the most for FA Cups. You could argue had it not been for Manchester City's 115 charges blatant cheating which led to our squad been gutted, we could have won a few more.

Europe has been a massive hole in our history and I think every single Arsenal fan will admit we have been awful. But even just one CL would change things. People keep mentioning trophies as if we have never won anything, is what I was referring to.
 
vanrooney said:
I am happy with our signings but when you look at the signing of gyökeres and what City and Liverpool are doing its hard to imagine that we can close the gap. But who knows - in the end we had enough big name signings like Sancho et al where you thought that will be a success - hope for once its our competitors who get fecked
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The gap this season isn't with them. It's with the other 12 clubs that finished above us.

If we can finish in a european spot then next summer we go again. Maguire and Casemiro contracts finish then and we are one year closer to clearing the deadwood costs/liability.

As much as it pains me we need to be realistic. Getting the toxicity out of our squad and everyone playing gor each other for yhe firsg time in years would be massive.
 
73 million euros seems a good deal. Is isak really more then twice as good? They're my favorites again going into the season.

It's time for Arteta to put up our shut up now. They've got two quality players in ever position now assuming they get eze.
 
Raya
Timber Saliba Gabriel Miles-Skelly
Zubimendi Rice
Saka Ödegaard Martinelli
Gyökeres​

With Mosquera, Calafiori, White, Norgaard, Merino, Nwanieri, Madueke, Trossard and Havertz as back-up/potential starters. Some team that, very exciting.
 
Intrigued to see how he’ll do. Hard to see him not scoring enough to justify his transfer. He’ll definitely offer Arsenal something they’ve lacked but there are a question marks in his goal record that would worry me a bit.
 
Sporting has announced the details of the Gyokeres deal - €65.764M + €10.256M. The statement says the amounts already include the solidarity mechanism, meaning Sporting will distribute €3.29M to third-party clubs, in addition to €3.75M owed to Coventry, 10% of the capital gain.
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Jaap said:
Raya
Timber Saliba Gabriel Miles-Skelly
Zubimendi Rice
Saka Ödegaard Martinelli
Gyökeres​

With Mosquera, Calafiori, White, Norgaard, Merino, Nwanieri, Madueke, Trossard and Havertz as back-up/potential starters. Some team that, very exciting.
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Martinelli the weak link
 
If they get Eze as well that’s the most complete arsenal side they’ve had for 20 years.
 
TheReligion said:
Love Eze but would be wasted on the left. Much better centrally.
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Check his heat maps, he already plays off the left. I’d love him to come in and play exactly where he played for Palace last season. And if the game demanded a touch line winger, he’s played there for both club and country over 100 times - or we just rotate in Martinelli for that particular opposition.

Eze and Saka on opposite wings would be mint.
 
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