Arsenal reach verbal agreement to sign Viktor Gyokeres after Andrea Berta breakthrough

Arsenal have reached a verbal agreement with Sporting CP for the signing of Viktor Gyokeres, football.london understands and as first reported by David Ornstein. The club had agreed in principle a deal of €63.5million (£55million) with €10million (£8.7million) in add-ons just over a week ago.

Talks took place with Andrea Berta and the Portuguese side to find an agreement on the structure of the deal and the achievement requirements for the add-ons. Despite hope that other clubs would come in for the striker, the player’s adamance that he only wants Arsenal had worked in the north London side’s favour.

Gyokeres, once the complete agreement has been achieved, will undergo a medical before completing media responsibilities before the deal is announced. He can then fly out to Singapore to join his new teammates on pre-season.

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Arsenal are expected to welcome Cristhian Mosquera to the group in addition who has now travelled to Asia. Mikel Arteta is hoping to add further reinforcement with interest in Eberechi Eze, Xavi Simons and Anthony Gordon well documented.

Gyokeres finally solves the striker issue which has dominated discussion around the club for some time. The Swede has scored 97 goals for Sporting CP in his last two seasons with the Portuguese side.

He moved to Sporting CP following spells with Brighton, Swansea City and Coventry City in England but has yet to make a top flight appearance. While the deal comes too late for Arsenal’s match with AC Milan on Wednesday, there remain two more friendly matches against Newcastle United and north London rivals Tottenham to come.