Arsenal seems to be considering a “unplayable” substitute for the highly-regarded attackers Victor Osimhen and Ivan Toney. Reliable source Fabrizio Romano has information on the Gunners’ transfer ambitions.
Edu focuses on a new Arsenal striker
Having scored 31 goals in their last seven league games, the north Londoners are a formidable scoring threat.
Arsenal’s sporting director Edu has not slowed down his hunt for striker options this summer, even if the team has turned things around at home and is still a serious contender for their first league title in 20 years.
“We still can’t rule out Arsenal in the race for Osimhen,” said journalist Ben Jacobs to GiveMeSport last week.
“It’s also true that PSG have Osimhen very, very high on their list of targets and can move in the market because they will free up money due to Kylian Mbappe’s departure. I’m still told by sources that Osimhen’s priority is the Premier League, which is encouraging for Chelsea and Arsenal.”
Names like Toney and Osimhen will be highly coveted, as both are heavily rumoured to be potentially leaving Brentford and Napoli this summer respectively.
Arsenal face real competition for the duo, but one alternative who’s been watched by club officials is Sporting Lisbon star Viktor Gyokeres.
Arsenal “in the race” to sign Gyokeres
That is according to Romano, who told the ‘Here We Go’ podcast that Arsenal are in the race to sign Gyokeres this summer.
The “unplayable” Swede has excelled since joining Sporting from Coventry, having scored 18 goals while bagging a further eight assists.
“Yes I think there will be movement, this is the feeling, there is a release clause into the contract of Viktor Gyokeres and it is €100m,” said Romano.
“So this is the price, even when in January we had rumours about English clubs moving around Gyokeres, the message from Sporting was very clear, the release clause or nothing.
“We know how tough it is to negotiate with Portuguese clubs, we all remember what happened for example with Enzo Fernandes to Chelsea, Pedro Porro to Tottenham – you have to pay the release clause until the end of the negotiation.
“They will not give up, so this is how they negotiate in Portugal, this is also likely for the Viktor Gyokeres deal. Arsenal scouts were in attendance to follow Viktor Gyokeres, it is true, but there are also other clubs in the race.”
The 25-year-old is in the form of his life, but if Sporting’s negotation stance around his marquee release clause doesn’t soften, he could actually be as difficult to sign as the likes of Osimhen and Toney.
