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Sporting Clube de Portugal president Frederico Varandas has issued a beardown connection connected Viktor Gyokeres.
Gyokeres, 27, has been heavy linked with a determination distant from Sporting implicit the past fewer weeks.
The likes of Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea person each been antecedently linked with the Swedish international.
However, it has been reported that Gyokeres is favouring a determination to Arsenal and has 'refused' to instrumentality to Sporting's pre-season training, which started this week.
On Saturday evening, it was claimed that Sporting president Varandas had issued a powerfully worded statement.
The connection revealed that Gyokeres could beryllium acceptable for a 'heavy fine' and volition person to contented 'an apology to the group'.
As reported by writer Ben Jacobs, who wrote connected societal media: "Sporting president Frederico Varandas issues a beardown connection to Agencia Lusa aft Gyökeres did not study backmost to training, arsenic expected.
"We're calm. Everything tin beryllium solved with the closure of the market, a dense good and an apology to the group.
"If they [Arsenal] don't privation to wage Viktor’s just marketplace value, we'll beryllium precise comfy with that for the adjacent 3 years."
Viktor Gyokeres is looking to permission Sporting Clube de Portugal. Image: Getty
He added: "If the geniuses who are devising this strategy deliberation that this puts unit connected maine to marque it easier for him to leave, not lone are they wholly wrong, but they are besides making it much analyzable for the subordinate to leave.
"No 1 is supra the interests of the club. Whoever they are."
Meanwhile, Gyokeres himself spoke precocious to L'Equipe.
What has Viktor Gyokeres said astir his future?
He said: "It’s football, you ne'er know. I’m not reasoning astir it, we’ll spot what happens.
"If thing is going to happen, it volition happen. The astir important happening for maine is to play for a nine that truly wants me."
Gyokeres added: "Premier League? I spent respective years determination without being capable to play a azygous match. So, of course, it's thing I'd similar to do.
"It would beryllium large revenge!"
