Sporting Lisbon 'demanding €100m for Premier League-linked Viktor Gyokeres'

Sporting Lisbon have demanded €100m (£87m) to let Premier League-linked Viktor Gyokeres leave the club.

The Swedish striker only moved to the Portuguese capital in the summer after two fine full seasons with Coventry City in the Championship.

Gyokeres scored 38 league goals across those two seasons, and helped the club to the playoff final where they eventually lost to Luton Town.

The 25-year-old has made an excellent start to life in Lisbon too, scoring eight goals in nine games across all competitions so far.

Speaking ahead of his side's Taca de Portugal clash with Olivais e Moscavide, Sporting boss Ruben Amorim claimed the club will hang on to the player unless his release clause is met.

That will mean that Premier League clubs would potentially have to cough up €100m (£87m) in order to prise him away from Sporting.

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In his pre-match press conference, Amorim said: "He has a clause, this year as far as I know, only someone will leave under the clause. If they pay 100 million. 100 million, right? He will have to go. Until then he will be a Sporting player."

Gyokeres has helped Sporting to a great start, as the Lions sit top of the Primeira Liga after eight matches, one point ahead of local rivals Benfica.

Sporting fended off interest from English clubs such as Everton to sign the former Brighton & Hove Albion man, who is now a fully-fledged Sweden international.

The €20m (£17.5m) fee that Sporting paid to Coventry was a club record, overtaking the previous high that they spent on fellow striker Paulinho from Braga in 2021.

Should Gyokeres leave for that aforementioned fee, it would smash the record for the club's biggest sale too, currently held by Bruno Fernandes after his €65m (£57m) move to Manchester United in 2020.

Gyokeres made headlines following his strike against Belgium during the international break - which was his fifth international goal - but it was eventually overshadowed by events in Brussels which saw the game abandoned.

The striker is set to be involved in Sporting's cup tie against lower-league opposition this weekend in his first appearance since.