{"id":15675,"date":"2025-07-07T08:46:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T03:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=613446"},"modified":"2025-07-07T08:46:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T03:16:27","slug":"viktor-gyokeres-open-to-reduce-his-salary-for-arsenal-club-talks-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/viktor-gyokeres-open-to-reduce-his-salary-for-arsenal-club-talks-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Viktor Gy\u00f6keres open to reduce his salary for Arsenal; club talks continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viktor Gy\u00f6keres has been actively searching for clubs as he doesn\u2019t want to play for Sporting Lisbon anymore. Arsenal is his preferred choice and the club to club talks are advancing. Arsenal has asked Gy\u00f6keres to give up his huge salary and offered to reduce it to join the side. The striker is ready to give up \u20ac2 million of his salary trying to facilitate negotiations between Arsenal and Sporting.<\/p>\n<p>Sporting Lisbon striker Viktor Gy\u00f6keres is actively seeking a way out of the Portuguese club, with Arsenal emerging as his preferred destination. The Swedish forward, who enjoyed a stellar 2023\/24 campaign, has made it clear he no longer wishes to remain at Sporting and is pushing for a transfer this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Talks between Arsenal and Sporting are progressing, with both clubs working towards a potential deal. However, the Gunners are hesitant to meet Gy\u00f6keres\u2019 current wage demands and have asked the striker to lower his salary in order to complete the move.<\/p>\n<p>In a show of commitment, Gy\u00f6keres is reportedly willing to forgo \u20ac2 million from his salary to help facilitate negotiations. His willingness to take a pay cut underlines his strong desire to play in the Premier League and join Mikel Arteta\u2019s squad at the Emirates Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viktor Gy\u00f6keres has been actively searching for clubs as he doesn\u2019t want to play for Sporting Lisbon anymore. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":36268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[270,3918,3796,2573,702,3941,3991,4002,3945],"class_list":["post-15675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-arsenal","tag-english-premier-league","tag-football","tag-football-transfers","tag-mikel-arteta","tag-sporting-club","tag-summer-transfer-window","tag-transfers-latest","tag-viktor-gyokeres"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}