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FC Barcelona’s pursuit of Sporting Lisbon’s Viktor Gyökeres may put a spanner within the works for Manchester United.
The Purple Devils proceed to battle for targets as they may solely convert one in all their possibilities in yesterday’s 1-1 draw with Chelsea at Previous Trafford.
It means they’ve now solely scored 9 targets in ten Premier League video games, scarcely plausible for a membership the scale of United.
Subsequently, one in all incoming coach Ruben Amorim’s greatest duties shall be getting a tune out of his new facet’s attackers and it has been reported that he would possibly flip to one in all his present gamers at Sporting Lisbon.
The previous Coventry Metropolis striker has been in sensational type for Amorim, having already smashed in 20 goals this season in simply 16 appearances. That is no fluke as he banged in 43 the season earlier than.
The Swede has already opened up on potential rumours of a transfer by claiming he’s joyful at Sporting however doesn’t know what the longer term holds for him.
Portuguese paper A Bola (by way of Fichajes.com) report that United may have some severe opposition from Spain, within the type of Barcelona.
Barca are mentioned to be eager to establish “the inheritor to the everlasting Robert Lewandowski” and that the Swedish striker is actually an intriguing prospect to fill this function.
“With a launch clause of €100 million, his workforce can be open to negotiating his switch for €60-70 million” however Barcelona additionally maintain one other ace up their sleeve to scale back the value additional.
“The tactic would contain together with Vitor Roque (19 years outdated), who performs on mortgage at Actual Betis, within the provide to persuade the Lisbon membership for his or her killer.”
United would definitely discover it exhausting to compete with Barcelona for the participant’s signature as a result of wonderful type they’re in, particularly compared to the state of affairs the Purple Devils at the moment discover themselves.
Nonetheless, the summer season could be very far-off and lots of issues can change in that point. What’s extra, the upcoming arrival of Ruben Amorim will undoubtedly be an enormous promoting level for Gyokeres to contemplate as he’ll undoubtedly be drawn to hyperlink up with a person who helped convert him from a Championship striker to one of the deadly in all the continent.
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