Sporting forward Viktor Gyokeres is a player that Arsenal is interested in signing, but Zlatan Ibrahimovic could ruin the deal.

 

This summer, the Gunners are anticipated to look for a new goal striker, and the Gyokeres, who has scored 36 goals in 39 games for Sporting this season across all competitions, is reportedly on their radar. Gazzetta dello Sport, an Italian publication, reports that Arsenal and AC Milan are willing to move for the Swede. According to the article, Arsenal is in the “front row” to seal a deal, but Ibrahimovic might give Milan the advantage.

 

Gyokeres’ hero, 42-year-old Ibrahimovic, joined Milan as a senior advisor after retiring from playing last year. Consequently, the team is reportedly optimistic that Ibrahimovic can ‘push him towards Milan’.

 

It’s interesting to note that Ibrahimovic nearly signed a contract with Arsenal early in his career, but the deal fell through when he declined to undergo a trial. He said to Arsenal supporter Piers Morgan last year, “When I was young, I had a lot of interest from a lot of clubs, and one of them was Arsenal.” “So, when I arrived at Mr. Arsene Wenger’s office, there was a lot of excitement because I saw all these players—Bergkamp, Henry, Ljungberg, Vieira, and others—and I thought, ‘F**k, this is big,’ even though I had previously played in high level Sweden.

 

However, this was significant because it said, “I am here now.” I was playing PlayStation with these guys last week. I also chatted with Wenger. After we spoke in his office, he asked me, “What do you want?”

He want to feel and get to know me. He just doesn’t buy the player, in my opinion, because he is a certain kind of guy who likes to know what he is purchasing. Eventually, he had an Arsenal shirt with the number nine on it, and it said, “We’d like you to come in and try out for two weeks.”

 

“Up until he told me to come and conduct a trial, everything was fine. I had my eyes on him. He’s obviously Wenger; at that point, I’m just nothing. “I don’t do trials,” I responded, and he looked at me as if he didn’t understand. “‘I don’t go through trials; if you don’t want me, then why am I here?’ That was me, but it wasn’t a game; that was who I was. “No, no, you don’t understand, I don’t do trials,” followed by “No, but you have to come and do a trial.” That’s all; I never visited Arsenal.”