For two years he has been scoring goals repeatedly but in the summer, surprisingly, no one wanted to invest in him, perhaps due to the apparently disproportionate valuation (at least 100 million). Viktor Einar Gyökeres in the end he remained at Sporting Lisbon despite 43 goals and 15 assists in the 50 games played last season and now his value seems to have even increased.
The boy born in Stockholm is off to a great start and is currently the best of the great strikers in Europe: in 17 matches he has already scored 23 goals and 4 assists, punishing practically all the opponents he has met so far. The latest scalp is truly excellent, because his hat-trick scored yesterday demolished Erling Haaland’s Manchester City (who instead missed a penalty). Only PSV and Estoril resisted his fury, as did Slovakia among the national teams.
Even against Sweden, in fact, the performance does not change: between September and October they scored four goals in as many matches. An explosion that came late, in relation to that of other great centre-forwards, but undoubtedly thunderous: growing up in Brommapojkarna, Gyokeres had never scored more than 10 goals in the season until his arrival at Coventry, who bought him from Brighton in 2021 for just over 1 million. A bargain, given that in the summer of 2023 i Leos they invested 24 of them and today it is worth quadruple that. Portuguese clubs are expensive shops but in this case there are few doubts: the 26-year-old of Hungarian origins is a striker of the highest level and who knows, Ruben Amorim might be able to convince him to move to the Premier League in a few months.