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Carrying CP striker Viktor Gyokeres’ upward thrust to stardom has been ferocious over the past 18 months, making his name on the area stage along with his impressive goal-scoring exploits for the Lisbon-based club.
The Swedish striker, ranked at no.7 in FourFourTwo’s checklist of the handiest strikers on this planet correct now, was one in all Europe’s prime scorers last season, netting 43 targets correct by all competitions as Carrying strolled to the Liga Portugal title.
This season has been no diversified having netted 16 targets in precisely 11 league video games to this point, as effectively as a hattrick in Carrying’s eminent 4-1 procure over Manchester City in the Champions League adding extra gasoline to the ever-rising excitement that surrounds him.
‘He will chase’ Carrying Director expects Goykeres departure
The 26-year-old-fashioned’s performances receive, unsurprisingly, drawn interest from Europe’s greatest facets, with speculation ramping up a level as soon as Ruben Amorim’s cross to Manchester United was announced.
Gyokeres is believed to receive a £63 million release clause this summer time, based on The Telegraph, £9 million lower than the total tag United paid for Rasmus Hojlund.
Gyokeres’ future was as soon as again thrown into doubt in most up to the moment days after Carrying President Frederico Varandas confirmed that the club wouldn’t be in a position to discontinuance the striker from leaving if a prime club came knocking.
As confirmed by Fabrizio Romano on X, Verandas stated: “I will’t promise the rest. If a club arrives and pays the release clause, if he wants to chase, he will chase”.
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“Nonetheless I attain no longer assume this will occur in January”, he added.
Carrying are no strangers to mountainous-money departures in most up to the moment years, seeing Bruno Fernandes, Nuno Mendes and Manuel Ugarte proceed for sizable sums to other European powerhouses.
Gyokeres would change into the club’s most costly departure of all time if his rumoured release clause was met, and he can also change into the most costly Swedish player ever, overtaking Alexander Isak and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Manchester United and Chelsea are the 2 facets most heavily linked with the ahead, even supposing other Premier League clubs have a tendency to circle whereas Barcelona will be looking to interchange an growing old Robert Lewandowski in the impending years.
