Arsenal have secured the signature of Sporting CP’s prolific Swedish striker Viktor Gyökeres, beating out fierce competition from Manchester United and Chelsea. The deal, finalized for a reported €60m release clause, will be paid in two instalments.

Viktor Gyokeres ‘will sign for Arsenal’

Gyokeres has been one of two striker alongside Benjamin Sesko to be linked with an Arsenal transfer this summer

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Viktor Gyokeres is going to be an Arsenal player during the summer transfer window. That is according to transfer guru Gianluca di Marzio anyway.

The Gunners are in the market for a new centre-forward this summer and have made enquiries for Gyokeres and RB Leipzig star Benjamin Sesko.

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Arsenal were understood to have agreed a verbal deal to sign Sesko, although contrasting reports also suggested the Gunners were willing to walk away from a move to sign the Slovenian because of increasing wage demands and frustrations over negotiations on personal terms.

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The Gyokeres transfer situation has been just as difficult to cut through. Reports of a gentleman’s agreement over a cut-price fee were quashed by Sporting CP president Federico Varandas, while other reports have claimed the Swede has told the club he does not plan to play for them again in order to force through a move.

football.london knows that Arsenal’s main priority in this transfer window is to sign a striker, with the Gunners also keen to sign a back-up goalkeeper, defender, midfielder and winger too.

The question over whether it will be Sesko or Gyokeres has been in the air for the entirety of the summer transfer window so far, but we are no closer to knowing who, if any, Arsenal will sign.

Di Marzio has delivered something of a bombshell with regards to Gyokeres though. Speaking to wettfreunde, he said: “It’s true that Arsenal have him in their sights, but Arsenal will sign Gyokeres because he wants to join Arsenal.