{"id":824369,"date":"2025-02-04T10:14:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/they-might-expert-makes-major-man-united-claim-as-transfer-targets-asking-price-drops-to-e70m\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T10:14:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:14:02","slug":"they-might-expert-makes-major-man-united-claim-as-transfer-targets-asking-price-drops-to-e70m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/they-might-expert-makes-major-man-united-claim-as-transfer-targets-asking-price-drops-to-e70m\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThey might\u2026\u201d \u2013 Expert makes major Man United claim as transfer target\u2019s asking price drops to \u20ac70m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viktor Gyokeres and Ruben Amorim (Photo by Emilio Andreoli, Alex Pantling\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p><strong>Manchester United might explore options to strengthen up front, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caughtoffside.com\/2025\/01\/04\/attacker-keen-joining-man-united\/\">Sporting Lisbon striker Viktor Gyokeres<\/a> among the names to watch.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, even if Gyokeres\u2019 asking price has dropped, there has supposedly not been any outreach to Sporting just yet, with options from within the Premier League also possible.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to transfer journalist Ben Jacobs as he spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fourfourtwo.com\/news\/manchester-united-report-expert-provides-viktor-gyokeres-deal-update\">FourFourTwo<\/a>, with the reporter explaining that Gyokeres could now be available for \u20ac70m, down from \u20ac100m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3PB4vjW\"><em><strong>\u201cYou cheating shitbag!\u201d \u2013 Which Man Utd star absolutely lost it at Arsenal player during fiery FA Cup clash?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils clearly need to strengthen in attack after some poor form from the likes of Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee this season, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caughtoffside.com\/2025\/01\/14\/marcus-rashford-transfer-ac-milan\/\">Marcus Rashford looks likely to leave Old Trafford<\/a>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11095\/13288070\/marcus-rashford-transfer-latest-ac-milan-expected-to-make-formal-approach-for-manchester-united-forward\">Sky Sports<\/a> and others.<\/p>\n<h2>Viktor Gyokeres transfer one to watch for Manchester United due to Ruben Amorim link<\/h2>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"944\" src=\"https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Viktor-Gyokeres-celebrates-scoring-for-Sporting.jpg\" alt=\"Viktor Gyokeres celebrates scoring for Sporting\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Viktor-Gyokeres-celebrates-scoring-for-Sporting-414x326.jpg 414w,https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Viktor-Gyokeres-celebrates-scoring-for-Sporting-630x496.jpg 630w,https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Viktor-Gyokeres-celebrates-scoring-for-Sporting-768x604.jpg 768w,https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Viktor-Gyokeres-celebrates-scoring-for-Sporting-770x606.jpg 770w,https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Viktor-Gyokeres-celebrates-scoring-for-Sporting-900x708.jpg 900w,https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Viktor-Gyokeres-celebrates-scoring-for-Sporting.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width:1230px) 770px, (min-width:1020px) 630px, (min-width:900px) 880px, (min-width:680px) 97vw, (min-width:414px) 414px, 100vw\" ><figcaption>Viktor Gyokeres celebrates scoring for Sporting (Photo by Gualter Fatia\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jacobs acknowledges that the Gyokeres links could make sense due to the Ruben Amorim connection, though he also stresses that there haven\u2019t been any formal contacts yet.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the Sweden international has been in sensational form and would surely make sense as an upgrade on what United currently have, as would other names like Victor Osimhen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManchester United might still be in for another forward, and of course, for the summer, people will naturally link them with Viktor Gyokeres because of the Ruben Amorim links,\u201d Jacobs said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the moment, that\u2019s bit premature. There\u2019s been no outreach to Sporting yet, but what we can say is that Gyokeres price has dropped from his \u20ac100 million release clause down to something in the region of \u20ac70m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo he is a bit more affordable and certainly has lower wages and agent fees compared to another historical Manchester United target in Victor Osimhen, but they might look for something more economical or potentially within the Premier League.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MUFC have been short of goals this season, but also have numerous other areas of weakness in this squad, so it remains to be seen if they\u2019ll focus on a striker now or look at their defence and midfield as more of a priority.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Mark Brus<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caughtoffside.com\/2025\/01\/15\/viktor-gyokeres-transfer-united-2\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viktor Gyokeres and Ruben Amorim (Photo by Emilio Andreoli, Alex Pantling\/Getty Images) Manchester United might explore options to strengthen up front, with Sporting Lisbon striker Viktor Gyokeres among the names to watch. However, even if Gyokeres\u2019 asking price has dropped, there has supposedly not been any outreach to Sporting just yet, with options from within<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":824370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27046,4177],"tags":[5328,5714],"class_list":{"0":"post-824369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-they","8":"category-might","9":"tag-might","10":"tag-they"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}