Ruben Amorim has warned Viktor Gyokeres that Manchester United are solely desirous about switch targets motivated to play for the membership itself, and never those that are particularly chasing Champions League soccer alone.
Gyokeres has been closely linked with United most of this season, thanks primarily to his blistering kind for Sporting CP – 52 objectives in 48 video games – and his prior relationship with Amorim.
The present United boss oversaw Gyokeres’ emergence from a participant, who by the age of 23 had by no means performed a high flight league match, into considered one of Europe’s most-talked about ‘quantity nines’.
The Swede is broadly anticipated to depart Sporting for an even bigger membership this summer time, with Arsenal and Barcelona the opposite sides most persistently linked with a switch.
There was hypothesis that Gyokeres is trying to be part of a membership within the Champions League, one thing which each Arsenal and Barcelona can extra firmly provide – within the latter’s case, already assured. United is also within the Champions League subsequent yr in the event that they win this season’s Europa League, going through Athletic Membership over two legs within the semi-finals this week and subsequent.
“I did not speak to him,” Amorim stated when requested about Gyokeres in pre-match construct as much as Thursday evening’s first leg in Bilbao.
“But when a participant solely needs to return to Man United to play Champions League, then he will not come. We would like gamers who wish to characterize United, not gamers who wish to play sure competitions.”
Though United have lacked output in entrance of aim this season, Amorim additionally used the chance to pledge his help to current strikers Rasmus Hojlund, Joshua Zirkzee and Chido Obi, vowing to assist develop and enhance them as a major goal.
“Our focus is to assist our gamers that we’ve got,” the Portuguese defined.
“Rasmus scored one aim within the final sport. Once more, I believe you may see that Rasmus has the expertise, Josh has the expertise, Chido has the expertise. We now have to enhance the gamers, however to enhance the gamers individually we’ve got to enhance the way in which that we carry out, the way in which we play.
“We’re removed from being a extremely constant workforce that may assist the strikers to attain many objectives. We now have a transparent lack of objectives and that has price us quite a lot of factors this season, we’ve got to enhance that [play] to assist the strikers to enhance.”
