{"id":7380,"date":"2025-07-13T19:42:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T19:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7380\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T19:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T19:42:03","slug":"viktor-gyokeres-arsenal-close-to-finalising-deal-with-sporting-for-sweden-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7380\/","title":{"rendered":"Viktor Gyokeres: Arsenal close to finalising deal with Sporting for Sweden forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport revealed at the start of the month how Arsenal had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cj61nd0n9rxo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">turned their attentions to Gyokeres<\/a> after hitting an impasse in their bid to sign Benjamin Sesko from RB Leipzig.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gunners sporting director Andrea Berta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cjrljneqe5zo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">flew to Lisbon<\/a> towards the end of last week to lead negotiations with Sporting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This weekend, Sporting&#8217;s president Frederico Varandas said Gyokeres was facing disciplinary action after failing to report for pre-season training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gyokeres, who scored 54 goals in 52 games last season, has yet to publicly explain why he has not turned up for pre-season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Varandas told Portuguese news agency Lusa that &#8220;no one is above the interests of the club&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Brighton and Coventry striker Gyokeres has scored 97 goals in 102 matches during his two seasons in Portugal, firing Sporting to two league titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC Sport revealed at the start of the month how Arsenal had turned their attentions to Gyokeres after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-7380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7380","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=7380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}