Courted by Luis Campos last summer and requested by certain supporters on the networks, Viktor Gyökeres will not join PSG during the next winter transfer window for several reasons.
Author of a resounding hat-trick against Manchester City this week, Viktor Gyökeres has now scored 23 goals with Sporting CP this season, in just 17 matches played. The 26-year-old Swedish striker, who is discovering the Champions League this season, has even scored 66 goals in 67 matches since his arrival in Portugal in the summer of 2023. Figures that are dizzying and arouse much envy.
At a time when PSG is struggling in front of goal in the Champions League and playing without a real number nine since the summer injury to Gonçalo Ramos, many Parisian supporters would like the club to position itself on a center forward like Gyökeres, who has a release clause set at 100 million euros in his Portuguese contract.
Luis Enrique didn't want it last summer and will soon get Ramos back
If the Swede was indeed on the PSG shelves last summer, as had leaked into the Portuguese press, he was mainly targeted by Luis Campos, who had made him his offensive priority according to Le Parisien, ahead of Victor Osimhen. But according to the regional daily, Luis Enrique did not want it, believing he had what was needed in attack with Gonçalo Ramos, Randal Kolo Muani, Marco Asensio and Lee Kang-in.
While Gonçalo Ramos must return to competition at the end of November after being seriously injured on August 16 in Le Havre, it is difficult to imagine Luis Enrique asking Luis Campos to pick up the Scandinavian striker for him in January. According to Le Parisien, the management of PSG no longer wants to recruit a player behind the back of his coach.
On Wednesday evening, after the frustrating defeat to Atlético, Luis Enrique was asked if the lack of a top striker was the source of his team's efficiency problems. “Bring it to me if you have it, he replied dryly to the journalist. Where do I get this attacker from? It's the Champions League. I am true to my ideas. The day I completely fail in football, I will do it with my ideas, not those of a journalist, another coach, or anyone else. »
PSG is rather aiming for a winger this winter
Luis Enrique also pointed out last summer the danger that the weight of a large transfer can represent for a player and according to Le Parisien, PSG also now believes that this type of XXL transfer is too risky for all parties. , the failure Randal Kolo Muani being the best example.
As revealed this week by L'Equipe, PSG's searches for the winter transfer window are mainly for the position of winger and right central defender. The recruitment of a center forward is not a priority at the moment and a departure in January for Gyökeres is not on the cards anyway, especially since Sporting CP is currently 2nd in the championship phase of the Champions League.
Gyökeres transfer scheduled for next summer
No interest therefore for the Swede to leave the Lisbon ship in January and as Florian Plettenberg, of Sky Germany, recently revealed, a transfer from Gyökeres is already more or less scheduled for next summer. Its representatives would in fact have an agreement with Sporting to leave for the summer transfer window in the event of an offer of between €60 and €70 million, i.e. below the amount of its clause.
Will PSG return to the charge next summer if Ramos has not been satisfactory by then and Kolo Muani has found a way out? Nothing can be excluded, but as it stands, PSG does not plan to attack Gyökeres according to Le Parisien and a winter arrival should therefore be forgotten. Competition also promises to be tough in this area with several Premier League clubs and Bayern Munich on the lookout.
Many also imagine Gyökeres following Ruben Amorim to Manchester United. A hypothesis to which the Portuguese coach responded on Tuesday evening after beating Manchester City 4-1 for his last on the Sporting bench: “I can’t joke about this. It's already hard for me to leave, so if I start making jokes about it, I'm going to be in trouble. Lisbon is my city, it’s my country, I have to respect that. Viktor must stay (at Sporting) until the end of the season. And then he will go and live his life, perhaps, elsewhere. »
