Arsenal legend, Martin Keown has hailed the membership’s pursuit of Sporting CP striker, Viktor Gyokeres.
He welcomed the transfer, saying the Gunner’s goalscoring drawback can be a factor of the previous.
Keown informed talkSPORT that the striker was a very good possibility to guide the Gunners assault and precisely what Mikel Arteta wanted.
The Gunners legend famous that the membership is in dire want of a striker, which most of their followers consider was the rationale for his or her failure to win the Premier League title regardless of coming so shut within the final two or three seasons.
“This man [Gyokeres] you recognize is rock stable, you possibly can play the ball into him, he holds it up nicely, he has tempo, energy and I believe he’s fairly emphatic in entrance of aim,” he stated.
Based on him, a striker like Gyokeres is strictly what Mikel Arteta’s crew is missing in the intervening time.
Arsenal is claimed to have already reached private phrases with the Sporting CP man after the Portuguese facet initially refused to let him depart.
Soccer switch skilled, Fabrizio Romano, reported yesterday that the striker is keen to take a pay lower to push for the transfer.
