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Manchester United will definitely attempt to sign Sporting Lisbon’s Victor Gyokeres according to football pundit Tim Sherwood.
The Swedish striker has enjoyed a meteoric rise over the last three seasons.
The 26 year was a regular goalscorer in the Championship for Coventry City, netting 22 in the 2022-2023 season but made the jump up to the Primeira Liga in the summer of 2023. He took to life in Portugal like a duck to water as he smashed in 43 goals in 50 appearances in his debut season.
He has also started this campaign on fire, scoring 16 in 15 matches. Conversely, United have struggled massively for goals as Rasmus Hojlund has only two strikes to his name and new signing Joshua Zirkzee just a solitary effort.
Therefore, one of incoming manager, Ruben Amorim’s, most pressing challenges will be how to get the goals flowing again at Old Trafford.
Speaking on Sky Sports, Sherwood believes that Amorim already has the solution at his current club.
“Do we bring Gyokeres? He’s absolutely on fire at the moment. I would suggest 100 per cent that boy comes in because they’re [United] starved of centre-forwards.”
“They’ve got Hojlund, they’ve got Zirkzee, who’s not a centre-forward anyway, but they’ve got to get him out before they can bring players in, and that’s the problem.”
There have been rumblings in the Portuguese press that some of Sporting’s top stars are less than impressed by Amorim’s decision to leave during the season.
O Jogo report that they “know that some players in the squad were not satisfied with the news of interest from the Red Devils, namely athletes with a bigger market, such as Gyokeres and Hjulmand, who had proposals to leave in the summer transfer window.”
However, they were “encouraged” to stay at Sporting “due to Rúben Amorim’s two-time championship project and continuity. Now, this scenario falls apart.”
The Peoples Person has already relayed that news has started to filter out that the in-form Swedish striker could become Amorim’s first signing at the club in 2025 as he aims to catapult United back up the league standings.
