Man United ought to make every effort
Man United ought to make every effort to bring Ruben Amorim and Viktor Gyokeres back together in 2025.
It is difficult to think of a better striker in Europe at the moment than Viktor Gyokeres.
He scored four goals in Sweden’s 6-0 thumping of Azerbaijan in the UEFA Nations League on Tuesday night.
Just after scoring a hat-trick in Sporting Lisbon’s 4-1 Champions League victory over Manchester City earlier this month.
In just 24 games this season, the 26-year-old has already scored 32 goals for both club and country combined.
Contrast, Erling Haaland, who is regarded as the best shooter in the world, has scored 22 goals this season.
In light of Manchester United’s recent raid on Sporting for Ruben Amorim.
Gyokeres is being firmly linked to a move to the club. His figures are on the verge of becoming a little out of the ordinary.
As a goal-scoring danger, he is threatening to join Haaland in the same group.
Gyokeres joining Sporting from Coventry City in July 2023
Yet he has not ruled out leaving the Portuguese team next summer.
After finishing his final season at the Championship club with 22 goals and 12 assists. He signed a contract worth almost £20 million to join them.
Coventry was prepared to lose him when they lost the 2022–2023 season’s play-off final.
After losing to Luton Town at Wembley, they lost their chance to keep him. Even though he was the finest striker in England outside of the Premier League that season.
It was anticipated that Gyokeres, formerly of Brighton & Hove Albion, would rejoin the Premier League. Numerous clubs were linked to him, but nothing ever materialized.
Rather, he completed a surprise transfer to Sporting, who Gyokeres personally selected because. According to his agency, he believed Amorim would make him a stronger player. Did he not make a mistake?
In 50 games in all competitions last season, he recorded 15 assists and 43 goals.
He carried his form to the European stage for the first time. Scoring five of his 43 goals in nine Europa League outings.
With 18 games in Sporting colors, the Swede has scored 23 goals, continuing where he left off this season.
He is making his Champions League debut, and with five goals in four games. He is tied for the competition’s top scorers with players like Robert Lewandowski and Harry Kane.
Gyokeres’ five goals and one assist in two games for Sweden during the November international. Break should have been enough to make clubs take notice of him, if his club form was not already enough.
Gyokeres leads the scoring charts with nine goals in six games as the. Nations League league phase comes to an end His numbers are starting to get out of control.
After proving he can perform regularly at a level above the Championship. United ought to regret not pursuing him before he joins Sporting. In January, I wrote that United had failed to pull off a trick.
Reports linking United to a deal for Gyokeres have increased since Amorim was appointed earlier this month. And they will only become worse the more goals he scores.
Under the Portuguese manager, he has created the best football of his career, and. United fans are ecstatic about the possibility of seeing them again at Old Trafford.
In August 2023, United paid £64 million for Rasmus Hojlund
Although he has not shown that he can be a consistent provider of goals for the team. To his credit, though, injuries have hindered his development this year.
United does not currently have a player they can rely on to provide them with the assurance of goals because. Joshua Zirkzee is not a natural goal scorer, as evidenced by his lone goal this season.
Gyokeres is now the joint-top leading goalscorer in Europe’s top club tournament. Despite the fact that some contend he has not yet established himself in one of the continent’s top five leagues.
He is now expected to score every time he takes the field, and like Haaland. His numbers are getting almost out of control. In 54 club and national games in 2024, he has scored 58 goals.
The more goals he scores, the more people will want to sign him. But United has a secret weapon that no one else has: Amorim.
United should make every effort to bring the two back together at Old Trafford in the summer of next year.