Incoming Manchester United Manager, Ruben Amorim has ruled out making a move for Sporting striker, Vikor Gyokeres in the January window, but claims next summer may be a different story.
On November 11, Amorim will leave Sporting to become United’s manager, and Gyokeres has been mentioned as a possible addition to Old Trafford. Gyokeres, who joined Sporting from Coventry City in 2023, has scored 66 goals in 67 games under Amorim.
In Amorim’s last home game as manager, the 26-year-old scored a hat-trick to help Sporting defeat Manchester City 4-1 in the Champions League. According to The Mirror, after the game, Amorim was questioned regarding Gyokeres’ future.
“If I start joking about this Gyokeres situation I’ll get in trouble,” Amorim was quoted as saying by Portuguese outlet A Bola. “This is my city, this is my country, so I’ll respect it. Viktor has to stay until the end of the season and then his life will probably go somewhere else.”
Gyokeres, meanwhile, paid tribute to Amorim after the game.
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“We will miss him a lot,” Gyokeres told UEFA. ” We’ve done amazing things together. We will miss him and the other guys in the staff who will leave.
“We have to look forward and attack the next challenge ahead of us. It’s always nice to score and even better to score a hat-trick. Most important was to win the game so it was a brilliant night for us.”
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