2) Viktor Gyokeres to Arsenal is on the verge of completion
This report presents the most recent updates on Viktor Gyokeres’ move to Arsenal, including financial details, important negotiation details and the player’s role in the team.
Key Themes and Important Information:
Done Deal: 24-year-old attacker given green light to finalise £63.8m Arsenal transfer. Er. This “complete agreement” is with Sporting, his club at present.
Financial Implications: Fixed Fee: Arsenal will be liable to pay “£55.1 million as a fixed fee.”
Add-ons: There is even “£8.7 million more in potential add-ons” written into the deal.
Sporting are ‘confident that they will receive the full amount as the add-ons are considered…accessible’.
NEGOTIATION HURDLES “Negotiations around the bonuses have dragged out for well over a week until there was a breakthrough earlier this week.” Sporting “spent a long time analysing the contracts… before eventually being satisfied that everything was unanimous”.
Agent’s role: Gyokeres’ representative had a role to play in getting the deal done by “wav[ing] his 5.6million-pound commission to get talks past the guaranteed fee”.
What’s Next for Gyokeres: He is set to undergo “a medical in London to complete the move.”
He will “fly out to join up with the squad on their preseason tour, which is in Asia” after the medical, Celtic added.
Manager’s Thoughts: Manager J. Mletta (presumably Mikel Arteta) is “keen to get him, like all the new faces, integrated as quickly as possible into the team ahead of the new season. The source adds: “Victor Yakareesh deal is finally ver,,y very close to getting done.”
Pre-season Schedule: Arsenal are due to play “Newcastle in Singapore… on Sunday” followed by a match against “North London rivals Tottenham in Hong Kong on Thursday”.
Summary:
Viktor Gyokeres to Arsenal from Sporting is a done deal worth £63.8m. It is a deal that is primarily basonoff a large fixed fee with easily obtainable add-ons, and with the player’s agent waiving his commission, which also aided negotiations. The Hungarian is poised to travel to London for a medical and join the Gunners on their pre-season tour in Asia as the Arsenal manager looks to bed in his new faces early doors ahead of the new campaign
