Arsenal fans will be pleased to learn that the club is finally making inroads into their bid to sign Viktor Gyökeres.
For two seasons, the Gunners have been trying to sign the former Brighton and Hove Albion striker, who burst into the main event in the 2023/24 season with Sporting CP. He solidified his status as one of the most in-form strikers in the world by outperforming every single striker in European football in the goalscoring stat.
Gyökeres himself has wanted the move and has even threatened his club to help force it. However, Sporting is adamant that they will not budge unless their demands of over €70 million are met.
This is where Arsenal has been stuck for quite some time. It was even touted in some spaces that the Gunners could abandon the move, until the recent reports from Portugal and England claimed otherwise.
Mirror Football reports that Sporting president Frederico Varandas only paused discussions and did not entirely reject Arsenal’s approaches. They also report that Andrea Berta, Arsenal’s sporting director, is back at the negotiating table with Sporting for Gyökeres, 27, and that a resolution is close.
The touted resolution is that there will be a compromise on the fees that the striker’s agent will demand for facilitating the move and that Arsenal might also have to include a few more add-ons to convince Sporting. Arsenal, who resumed their preseason training last week, are pushing hard to have this deal completed before they jet out to their first stop on their annual preseason tour.
In fact, transfer insider Fabrizio Romano reports that the deal may be announced as early as Monday, 14th July 2025, thanks to claims that the striker’s agents are currently in London at Arsenal’s offices. Per The Athletic’s David Ornstein, sporting director Berta is closing negotiations on a new deal that will see Arsenal pay the reigning Primeira Liga champions an initial €63.5 million with a further €10 million in add-ons.
Arsenal are also about done with the Noni Madueke deal, and reports claim that the former Chelsea man’s switch will become official in the next 48 hours.
Madueke and Gyökeres will take their 2025 summer spending to around £200 million, and they will join Martin Zubimendi (£51 million), Christian Nørgaard (£15 million), and Kepa Arrizabalaga (£5 million) as Arsenal’s summer class of 2025.
Arsenal are also making progress on their bid to sign Eberechi Eze from Crystal Palace.
