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Jul 26, 2025, 02:00 PM ET
Arsenal person completed the signing of highly sought-after striker Viktor Gyökeres from Sporting CP, the nine announced connected Saturday.
Sources person told ESPN that Gyökeres arrives successful a woody worthy €63 cardinal ($74m) positive €10m ($11.7m) successful add-ons.
The 27-year-old has signed a five-year declaration with the Premier League side, who person agelong been linked with a caller striker. He volition deterioration the No. 14 garment astatine his caller club.
Arsenal and Sporting had been locked successful negotiations for immoderate time, with sources telling ESPN the delay was owed to disagreements implicit the details of performance-related add-ons.
"We're perfectly delighted to invited Viktor Gyökeres to the club," Arsenal caput manager Mikel Arteta said successful a statement. "The consistency helium has shown successful his performances and availability person been outstanding, and his extremity contributions talk for themselves.
"Viktor has truthful galore qualities. He is simply a speedy and almighty beingness up front, with unthinkable goalscoring numbers astatine nine and planetary levels. He brings a objective borderline with a precocious conversion complaint of chances into goals, with his intelligent question successful the container making him a changeless threat.
"We're excited astir what Viktor brings to our squad and are looking guardant to commencement moving with him. We invited Viktor and his household to Arsenal."
The Sweden planetary arrives with a glowing reputation, and was besides the taxable of involvement from Manchester United and Saudi Pro League sides this summer.
Gyökeres has scored 68 league goals successful conscionable 66 appearances successful Portugal -- with 39 netted past play unsocial -- having joined from Championship broadside Coventry City successful 2023. He besides enjoyed spells successful English shot astatine Swansea City and Brighton & Hove Albion.
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Sporting manager Andrea Berta said: "We are truthful pleased with the fantabulous woody we person completed to bring Viktor Gyökeres to the club. Viktor is an exceptional endowment and has consistently demonstrated helium has the qualities and winning mentality required of a top-level centre-forward. His physicality, quality and enactment ethic marque him a cleanable acceptable for our vision.
"We are assured Viktor volition person a large interaction connected the transportation and go an important fig successful our dressing room."
The 27-year-old adds much firepower to an Arsenal broadside who were hamstrung by injuries successful the 2nd fractional of past season.
Kai Havertz, who was 1 of those absentees, was the lone recognised elder striker brought connected the preseason circuit by Mikel Arteta.
The Arsenal brag is keen for Gyökeres to articulation the club's preseason tour with Arsenal playing Newcastle successful Singapore connected Sunday and past flying to Hong Kong connected Tuesday up of Thursday's crippled against arch-rivals Tottenham Hotspur.
Arsenal person finished 2nd successful the Premier League for 3 consecutive seasons.
Information from ESPN's James Olley contributed to this report
