{"id":29075,"date":"2025-07-22T16:31:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/29075\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T16:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:31:20","slug":"ornstein-confirms-gunners-on-verge-of-total-agreement-for-gyokeres-with-conclusion-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/29075\/","title":{"rendered":"Ornstein confirms Gunners &#8216;on verge of total agreement&#8217; for Gyokeres with &#8216;conclusion imminent&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal are now \u2018on verge of total agreement\u2019 with Sporting CP for the transfer of Viktor Gyokeres this summer, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners\u00a0have completed the signings of Kepa Arrizabalaga, Martin Zubimendi, Christian Norgaard and Noni Madueke already this summer after new sporting director Andrea Berta joined the club.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/arsenal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a>\u00a0are far from done in the transfer market with Valencia centre-back Cristhian Mosquera lined up to join in the coming days, while they have also been linked with Crystal Palace attacking midfielder Eberechi Eze.<\/p>\n<p>Gyokeres is another deal that is on the verge of being completed with Arsenal and Sporting CP currently haggling over the add-ons involved in the deal.<\/p>\n<p>There have been rumours that a deal for Gyokeres could collapse, while Manchester United were heavily linked with a possible hijack \u2013 but the Sweden international has always wanted to join Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-romano-gyokeres-offered-overnight-no-breakthrough-arsenal-talks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Transfer expert Fabrizio Romano said on his YouTube channel<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cSo Man Utd have been offered again the opportunity, as well as Saudi clubs, to hijack the original agreement with Sporting, so this happened once again.<\/p>\n<p>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/mailbox-arsenal-transfers-gyokeres-pawn-isak-martinelli-part-exchange\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mailbox:\u00a0Arsenal playing \u20184D chess\u2019 to sign Isak in Martinelli part-exchange with Gyokeres the \u2018pawn\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s also very important to say that in the same moment the message from Viktor Gyokeres and his agent to Arsenal has been very clear: \u2018I only want to go to Arsenal\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe same message also sent to Sporting because Sporting have informed the player of this opportunity. The message Man Utd and Saudi clubs are also receiving is \u2018Arsenal\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/arsenal-prepare-new-move-gyokeres-agent-closes-door-man-utd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portuguese newspaper Record claimed earlier on Tuesday<\/a> that Gyokeres\u2019 agent had \u2018closes the door on\u2019 Man Utd over his relationship with the club after they failed to agree a new contract with Victor Lindelof.<\/p>\n<p>Another Portuguese outlet, A Bola, revealed that Arsenal were \u2018preparing a\u00a0new attack\u2019 on Tuesday that would finally get the deal over the line.<\/p>\n<p>MORE ARSENAL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/arsenal-accelerate-deal-eze-crystal-palace-enough-funds-complete-transfer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal \u2018accelerate\u2019 deal for PL star with \u2018more than enough funds available\u2019 to complete transfer<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/mailbox-arsenal-arteta-sack-win-title-liverpool\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal \u2018must win\u2019 the title or Arteta is sacked? They aren\u2019t the only club spending money to improve<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/opinion-arsenal-gyokeres-hijack-man-utd-liverpool-ekitike\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal face four-word question over Gyokeres as clown car Man Utd circle and Liverpool move quickly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6491250\/2025\/07\/22\/arsenal-viktor-gyokeres-transfer-latest\/\" target=\"_blank\">And now The Athletic reporter David Ornstein has revealed that<\/a> Arsenal and Sporting CP \u2018are on the verge of a total agreement for the transfer\u2019 for Gyokeres.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners had already struck a deal worth \u20ac63.5m up front with another \u20ac10m in add-ons with the Portuguese club but both sides were haggling over the bonuses.<\/p>\n<p>Ornstein adds:\u00a0\u2018But issues remained over the nature and achievability of those contingency payments, which caused a delay in the proposed move being finalised.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Talks to resolve that are now at an extremely advanced stage, with a conclusion imminent. Only finishing touches and some minor tweaks are required before the switch can be completed.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal are now \u2018on verge of total agreement\u2019 with Sporting CP for the transfer of Viktor Gyokeres this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[463,24664,24663,3,1084,403,99,5763],"class_list":["post-29075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-arsenal","tag-david-ornstein","tag-home-page","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-viktor-gyokeres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}