Article by Aurelian Botezatu – published on Tuesday, August 19, 2025, 14:16 / Updated Tuesday, August 19, 2025 14:16
Viktor Gyökeres, Arsenal's new accusation, played 60 minutes at his debut in the Premier League, against Manchester United (1-0). But he was not able to send a shot to the opponent's gate.
Arsenal has negotiated almost all summer with Sporting to buy Viktor Gyokeres. He took it with 65.8 million euros, in the end, but after his first official appearance at “Tunari”, against Manchester United, the verdict is not exciting: “He did not deserve his money”!
Franck Lebuef: “Why should we bring a player like Gyokeres?”
In the 60 minutes, he played, Sporting's former goal man completely disappointed. Unsustered by teammates, the Swedish striker Na managed to send any shot to the Gate of United. Blank!
The criticisms did not dispute, and the former world champion Franck Leboeuf, now TV commentator, has drawn a harsh conclusion in his analysis from ESPN. “My concern is as follows: why bring a player like Gyokeres if the team does not play in such a way that it enhances it?
Franck Leboeuf: “I had the feeling that I see Højlund at Manchester United”
Leoboeuf, a former player at Chelsea and Olympique Marseille, among others, hopes for something to “change, and Gyokeres will deliver. But in his first match in the Premier League I had the feeling that I see Højlund at Manchester United. He influenced the game a little.”
The difference between him and the teammates? “He wanted to play vertically, directly, with a rhythm-but he did not receive any usable ball. The other were slow. They were not on the same frequency as it,” the 1998 world champion, with the national of France, analyzed.
Mikel Arteta: “The problem is not in the player, but the team”
Assault at the end of the English journalists, manager Mikel Arta said that Gyokeres is not the blame for the debut in Arsenal's shirt. “The problem is not in the player, but the team. Because of this he had no shot at the gate.
He has done many things very well, especially in terms of pressing and speed. But we were unable to introduce it into play with passes. Our actions in the opposing half were too static, ”explained Arsenal's Spanish athens.
