Arsenal setback in Viktor Gyokeres bid despite offering โฌ10m above Sportingโs asking price
Arsenal’s negotiations for Sporting’s Viktor Gyokeres have stalled over a difference in overall value and terms.
The Premier League club’s stance is to offer โฌ65m, with potential performance-related add-ons of โฌ5m and โฌ10m.
That takes the overall value of Arsenal’s package to โฌ80m, but Sporting’s hard line is that they want โฌ70m guaranteed, with no add-ons.
The situation mirrors Arsenal’s earlier pursuit of Leipzig’s Benjamin Sesko in how neither club are budging. Those talks have temporarily paused over a difference of โฌ10m.
There is a significant difference with the pursuit of Sesko, however. The desire of the Gyokeres camp to leave has created tension and made it much more difficult for Sporting to keep him.
Club president Frederico Varandas has been irritated by how the situation has been conducted – if not necessarily by the player himself – especially since Sporting have let it be known they won’t stand in his way.
The 27-year-old’s deep to go to Arsenal is now dependent on a breakthrough in talks.
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