Liverpool have been linked with Viktor Gyokeres and the Sporting CP star just showed everyone exactly why. The Reds’ interest will be solid as a rock.

🚨🆕 Been told despite a release clause set at €100m, there is an agreement that Viktor #Gyökeres can leave @SportingCP next summer for €60-70m ✔️

A move in the winter is currently not planned. A transfer in the summer is very likely. In England, Manchester City, Arsenal, Liverpool, and Chelsea are specifically interested in the 26 y/o. #LFC #CFC

Liverpool have been linked with Viktor Gyokeres and the Sporting CP star just showed everyone exactly why. The Reds’ interest will be solid as a rock.

🟢 All of the teams are informed about the transfer agreement. 18 goals and 7 assists this season yet. Top st

and the Sporting CP star just showed everyone exactly why. The Reds’ interest will be solid as a rock.

It was reported earlier this week that Liverpool are in the market for Viktor Gyokeres. Now, they’re not alone in that – Manchester City, Arsenal and Chelsea also want the Sporting CP star.

Not on the list, surprisingly, is Manchester United. They’ve just appointed Sporting boss Ruben Amorim, the manager who has had so much success out of Gyokeres.

We think that’s an enormous mistake on United’s part not to go after Gyokeres, too. It’s one Liverpool can take advantage of.

The Swede can offer a fix to Liverpool’s biggest problem right now – the lack of a reliable striker. There are two forwards on the books, of course, in Diogo Jota and Darwin Nunez.

Both, however, are unreliable in their own ways.

Gyokeres is about as reliable as it gets right now, while also offering the kind of centre-forward Arne Slot likes. And he gave everyone a magnificent reminder of that on Friday

The Premier League’s top four picture is crowded through (almost) 10 weeks of the 2024-25 season, as a losses for Arsenal and Aston Villa continued to keep the door to the throne room wide open for business.

While first-place Liverpool and second-place Man City have multiple-game buffers over the rest of the Premier League, third-place Nottingham Forest (!?!) start a run of eight teams within four points going all the way down to 10th-place Newcastle United.

In the seven Premier League games Martin Odegaard has missed, Arsenal have lost two, drawn two and won three. That is a huge drop-off from their form when the Arsenal skipper was fit and orchestrating things over the last few seasons. Other injuries have played their part in Arsenal’s recent collapse too, but perhaps Odegaard’s importance was underestimated when he went down with an ankle injury for Norway during the September international break. It is the first time Arsenal have been without Odegaard for an extended period of time in the last few years and their fluidity is missing. Their drive to get the ball forward quickly from defense to attack is gone. Via Opta, in their five PL away games this season Arsenal have had just 37 shots (7.4 per game) with only Brentford (7.5 per game) managing fewer shots on the road this season. Odegaard has been missing for four of those five away games.

Their usually lethal and rhythmic right side has looked lackluster. Bukayo Saka has just come back from injury himself, Ben White has been out injured and is lacking in confidence. And without Odegaard, the man who knits that side of the pitch together, Arsenal is just looking clunky. There’s now no doubt who makes Arsenal tick best and Odegaard’s absence is why Arsenal are languishing so far behind Man Cit and Liverpool. As he prepares to return to action in the coming weeks, can they make up this ground? Maybe. But if Odegaard goes down again with another injury it will be curtains for the Gunners’ title hopes this season. — Joe Prince-Wright .