Arsenal have accomplished the long-awaited signing of Viktor Gyokeres from Sporting CP, with the deal reportedly value round £63.5m (€73.5m) together with add-ons.
Arsenal have been eager to bolster their attacking choices after three consecutive second-placed finishes within the Premier League, with Gyokeres reported to be on their wishlist.
The Gunners had been additionally linked with RB Leipzig’s Benjamin Sesko and Aston Villa’s Ollie Watkins, however Gyokeres emerged as their major goal quickly after the top of 2024-25.
It was reported {that a} deal was in place for the Sweden worldwide to maneuver to the Emirates Stadium final week, however the change was delayed as Sporting and Arsenal negotiated the phrases of the add-ons within the deal.
However that deadlock has been overcome, with Gyokeres signing a reported five-year contract. Arsenal will reportedly pay Sporting an preliminary £55m, with an extra £8.5m due in add-ons.
Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta advised the membership’s web site: “We’re completely delighted to welcome Viktor Gyökeres to the membership. The consistency he has proven in his performances and availability have been excellent, and his purpose contributions converse for themselves.
“Viktor has so many qualities. He’s a fast and highly effective presence up entrance, with unimaginable goalscoring numbers at membership and worldwide ranges. He brings a scientific edge with a excessive conversion charge of probabilities into objectives, together with his clever motion within the field making him a relentless menace.
“We’re enthusiastic about what Viktor brings to our squad and are wanting ahead to begin working with him.
“We welcome Viktor and his household to Arsenal.”
That is the place it’s worthwhile to be.
Viktor Gyökeres is a Gunner
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— Arsenal (@Arsenal) July 26, 2025
Gyokeres scored 68 objectives in two seasons within the Primeira Liga – essentially the most of any participant in Europe’s high 10 leagues since his transfer to Portugal from Coventry Metropolis in 2023.
Bayern Munich’s Harry Kane, with 62 Bundesliga objectives, is second on that checklist.
Gyokeres’ objectives got here from probabilities value a complete of 53.6 anticipated objectives (xG), giving him an overperformance of 14.4. No participant in Europe’s high 10 leagues has outperformed their underlying figures by a larger margin in that point.
He netted 29 occasions in his debut marketing campaign, then scored 39 occasions in simply 33 league outings in 2024-25, serving to Sporting win their twenty first top-flight title regardless of the mid-season departure of head coach Ruben Amorim to Manchester United.
These 39 objectives made Gyokeres the main scorer in Europe’s high 10 leagues in 2024-25, together with his tally eight greater than next-best Kylian Mbappe.
Even when taking out Gyokeres’ 12 penalty objectives, the Swede (27) nonetheless netted three extra non-penalty league objectives than another participant in Europe’s high 10 divisions (Mbappe and Robert Lewandowski had been tied for second on 24 every).
Gyokeres additionally netted six occasions in eight Champions League appearances final season, together with a hat-trick in a surprising 4-1 group-stage win over Manchester Metropolis.
That made him simply the second Swedish participant to attain a hat-trick within the Champions League, after Zlatan Ibrahimovic for Paris Saint-Germain in 2013 (4 objectives versus Anderlecht). He was additionally the primary participant to take action for Sporting since Antonio Oliveira towards Dinamo Zagreb within the European Cup, in 1982.
The 27-year-old additionally registered one help within the Champions League, surpassing Nani (six in 2014-15) for essentially the most purpose involvements by a Sporting participant in a single marketing campaign.
Gyokeres was additionally on the scoresheet within the remaining of the Taca de Portugal, as Sporting beat Benfica in further time to seal a home double.
Gyokeres is the sixth participant to affix Arsenal throughout the present switch window, after Kepa Arrizabalaga, Christian Norgaard, Martin Zubimendi, Noni Madueke and Cristhian Mosquera, and can put on the enduring quantity 14 shirt for the membership.
