The Swedish striker joins the London Club after scoring 97 goals for Sporting Lisbon in the past two seasons.
Arsenal signed the Swedish striker Viktor Gyokerres, ending the search for prolific scorers from the Premier League club.
Gyokerres finished a Sporting Lisbon move on Saturday worth 63 million pounds ($ 85 million) and signed a five -year contract.
“Viktor is an exceptional talent and has always shown that he had the qualities and the winning mentality required from a high -level center.
The 27-year-old striker joined Arsenal after having established himself after two exceptional seasons in Portugal, in which he pulled Lisbon to consecutive titles from the League with 97 goals, including 54 goals in 52 appearances in all competitions of the 2024-25 season, exceeding the tastes of the superstars Kylian Mbappe, Erling Haaland and Mohamed Sala.
A high -level striker has long been considered the missing element of Arsenal, who has come in each of the last three Premier League seasons. The fact of not bringing one during the January transfer window has seriously undermined its attempts to challenge Liverpool for the title The last mandate.
“The consistency he has shown in his performances and his availability has been exceptional, and his contributions to the objective speak for themselves,” said manager Mikel Arteta. “It is a rapid and powerful presence in advance, with incredible goals in the club level and international levels.”
Gyokerres returned to England after joining Brighton as a young player and later emerging from Coventry of second level, where his 22 goals helped the team reach the final of the playoffs in 2023.
His record of 40 goals in 97 games for Coventry drew Lisbon’s attention and led to a move of 20.5 million pounds (25 million dollars) to the Portuguese club.
Its explosive form in the past two seasons has experienced frequent speculation on a passage to one of the European football giants, notably Manchester United. But Arsenal won the race for its signature, and the transfer represents a remarkable increase for a player who was developed for the first time in Brommapojkarna, a Swedish club with a reputation to guide the careers of some of the best emerging talents in the country.
“He was a late developer because he was not the best striker or the best Brommapojkarna player at the age of 16, 17, 18, 19,” said Dalibor Savic, his former youth coach at the Swedish Club, at the Associated Press in November. “If he’s targeting something, he will get there.”
Gyokerres will have to prove that he can take the plunge towards the Premier League after failing to break through in Brighton, a club known to find players like Moises Caicedo and Alexis Mac Allister in recent years. He only made eight appearances for the club and was loaned to St Pauli in Germany and Swansea before his permanent move to Coventry.
His performances for Sweden and in the Champions League suggest that he will be able to continue this form at Arsenal.
He was the top scorer in the League of Nations, with nine goals, outclassing Cristiano Ronaldo and Haaland, and hit six in eight games in the Champions League for Lisbon last season.
