Burnley Can Land Their Own Haaland With £20m Signing

Burnley secured their promotion to the Premier League in model as they received the Championship title with 101 factors within the 2022/23 marketing campaign.

Vincent Kompany should now construct a squad that’s able to competing within the top-flight with a view to keep away from an prompt relegation again right down to the second tier and a striker is reportedly on his summer season wishlist.

Ashley Barnes has left Turf Moor to signal for Norwich Metropolis on a free switch and this opens up a spot within the roster for an additional quantity 9 to take his place.

Earlier this month, Football Insider reported that the Clarets are one of many groups displaying curiosity in Coventry star Viktor Gyokeres, who is alleged to be valued at £20m heading into the summer season window.

What’s Viktor Gyokeres’ model of play?

The Sweden worldwide is a strong and tall centre-forward who performs in the same solution to present Manchester Metropolis celebrity Erling Haaland.

Since arriving in England from Borussia Dortmund final summer season, the Norway worldwide has taken the highest flight by storm and set a brand new report for objectives in a single Premier League. He has discovered the again of the online 36 instances, sufficient to take the record off Alan Shearer and Andy Cole, who each scored 34.

Gyokeres might not have the ability to smash information within the prime division however Sunderland supervisor Tony Mowbray went so far as to check his dominant model within the Championship to the Metropolis marksman’s within the prime division. The English coach said:

“He seems to be a yard extra highly effective and a yard faster than everybody else, he’s a extremely assured boy. I don’t wish to say he ought to check himself within the Premier League however who’s like him within the Premier League for the time being?

“Who is simply too quick, too robust and too large, you’d counsel Haaland is like that and Gyokeres on this league seems to be a yard quicker and stronger than the gamers he performs towards within the Championship.”

The 24-year-old, who stands at 6 foot 2, has used his energy, energy, tempo, and high quality to burst previous opposition defenders frequently.

He ranks within the prime 4% of gamers in his place within the Males’s Subsequent Eight Competitions over the past one year in progressive carries and profitable take-ons per 90, which reveals that he is likely one of the finest round at driving previous gamers to progress his crew up the pitch.

Gyokeres, who was hailed as “excellent” and “mustard” by TalkSPORT pundit Adrian Clarke, has been in phenomenal contact this time period, scoring 21 objectives and offering ten assists in 44 begins within the Championship for Coventry.

This reveals that the younger ahead has the standard to make common contributions on the prime finish of the pitch and in consequence, may spearhead Burnley’s assault within the Premier League subsequent season if he is ready to make the step as much as the top-level.

He might not plunder 36 objectives in a title-winning marketing campaign like Haaland however his bodily and dominant model of play may make him Kompany’s personal model of Manchester Metropolis’s star centre-forward.