Deco, the sporting director of FC Barcelona, on Wednesday ruled out the possibility for the Catalan club to enter the race for Viktor Gyokeres, the Swedish international striker from Sporting CP.
“Viktor Gyokeres is a good player, he scored a lot of goals in Portugal, we know him, like many other strikers, but he is not our priority, we are not even thinking about a striker to replace Robert Lewandowski. We want him to continue being happy here, scoring goals and for at least another season it will be a sign that we have won titles this year“, said Decointerviewed by Sports World on the desire of FC Barcelona to sign an attacker, Erling Haaland having also been a subject.
“First, we need to determine if Haaland is the player we want for the future. It's very difficult to find a striker like Lewandowski, maybe Haaland and one or two others, but we are not obsessed with a 9, we don't plan it, I want Lewa to stay. When and if it is time to think about it, we will explore the options in the market, but today is not the right time to talk about it“, added the sporting director of the Catalan club, who was also questioned about the amount paid for Victor Roquecurrently on loan to Betis.
“He cost us 30 million euros and not 60 million, because there were no bonuses, he didn't win any titles with us and he also didn't reach a certain percentage of matches, so it's only 30“, clarified Deco.
