Arsenal ‘withdraw from bidding’ for striker as Arteta ‘rules him out’; Gunners face Lewis-Skelly disaster
Arsenal have now pulle out of a deal to sign Viktor Gyokeres after making a £59m bid for the Sporting CP striker earlier this week.
The Gunners finally looking to bring in a new striker this summer after a couple เว็บพนันออนไลน์ UFABET สมัครง่าย โปรโมชั่นมากมาย of seasons of fans, former players and pundits urging them to make an investment in a top-class centre-forward.
Season-ending injuries to Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz amplifie the need for another striker with midfielder Mikel Merino taking on a makeshift role in the final months of the campaign.
Arsenal have linke with a number of strikers over the past few months as Mikel Arteta and new sporting director Andrea Berta settle on their top targets.
The Gunners have seemingly settle on Sporting CP’s Gyokeres and RB Leipzig’s Benjamin Sesko as their top targets in that position with reports that the former was the subject of a £59m bid from Arsenal earlier this week.
Sporting CP vice-president Francisco Salgado Zenha: “He has three more years on his contract. At the moment, there no offers, he has three more years on his contract. I think the answer has given. [Sporting’s transfer plans] won’t be any different from last year.
We want to keep the best players and retain talent. We want to continue to be champions, have competitive teams and fight on all fronts.
“I have in this role for seven years. In the years when Sporting were champions, we even made fewer sales than in other years … the fact that we are champions gives us a greater ability to retain players and talent.
“Coincidence or not, we have not had to sell any players in those times. Not that we have not receive offers, but the market is not under our control, we always dependent.”