One reported summer season switch goal for Liverpool has claimed that his membership’s lofty valuation of him priced suitors out of a transfer for him.
In August, it was reported that the Reds had ‘made checks’ on Viktor Gyokeres after an exceptional 2023/24 season for Sporting Lisbon, however in the long run they didn’t fork out to satisfy his €100m (£84.3m) launch clause.
Talking to Afton Bladet, the Sweden striker admitted that he finds his membership’s asking value to be extreme, however he respects their proper to worth him at what they imagine he’s value and insists that he’s joyful within the Portuguese capital.
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The 26-year-old mentioned: “They [Sporting] needed a lot of the beginning gamers to remain and held us tight. That’s the way it turned out, however I get pleasure from Sporting very a lot, so for me it was no drawback to remain.
“After all you wish to play on the highest degree. It [release clause] was most likely a bit an excessive amount of as a result of nothing got here of it. After all it’s some huge cash, however we’ll see what occurs subsequent window…
“Nothing occurred and it seems like I had a fairly good season, so sure, that’s most likely why there was merely no transfer. However that’s what Sporting thinks I’m value, after which it’s a must to respect that.
“I get pleasure from myself very a lot in Sporting and might’t complain about something, so it’s completely no drawback for me to remain. After all, you purpose to check different leagues and the next degree, however I’ve no stress.”
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After an unimaginable season during which he netted 43 instances in all competitions, it got here as no shock that switch curiosity in Gyokeres was so plentiful in the summertime, or that Sporting slapped such a lofty price ticket on him.
He’s picked up the place he left off, too, with seven objectives in 4 matches already initially of the present marketing campaign, taking him to 50 in simply over a yr for his membership.
If the Swede continues that phenomenal scoring fee, it’s certainly solely a matter of time earlier than a gargantuan supply is made that the powerbrokers on the Estadio Jose Alvalade can now not ignore.
Whether or not or not it’s Liverpool who ultimately prise him from Lisbon is one other matter, with Arne Slot already boasting a wealth of top-class attacking choices at Anfield.
Possibly if one among our present centre-forwards had been to depart within the foreseeable future for no matter cause, the Reds would then push the boat out to signal Gyokeres.
Until the previous situation materialises, we don’t envisage a big-money strategy from LFC, nevertheless it’d definitely make sense to maintain tabs on a striker who’s been as remarkably prolific because the 26-year-old.
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