Ruben Amorim drops hint over Manchester United transfer plan: 'I'll get in trouble'
Sporting striker Viktor Gyokeres has been linked with a potential move to Manchester United and Ruben Amorim, who will take charge at Old Trafford this month, has adressed his future
by Matthew Cooper · The MirrorIncoming Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim insists he won't move for Sporting Lisbon's star striker Viktor Gyokeres this season - but next summer may well be a different story.
Amorim is leaving Sporting to take charge of United on November 11 and Gyokeres has been linked with a potential move to Old Trafford. Gyokeres has scored 66 goals in 67 games under Amorim at Sporting, having joined the club from Coventry City back in 2023.
And the 26-year-old starred in Amorim's final home game in charge, netting a hat-trick as Sporting thrashed Manchester City 4-1 in the Champions League. And Amorim was quizzed about Gyokeres' future after the match.
"If I start joking about this Gyokeres situation I'll get in trouble," Amorim was quoted as saying by Portuguese outlet A Bola. "This is my city, this is my country, so I'll respect it. Viktor has to stay until the end of the season and then his life will probably go somewhere else."
Gyokeres, meanwhile, paid tribute to Amorim after the game.
"We will miss him a lot," Gyokeres told UEFA. " We've done amazing things together. We will miss him and the other guys in the staff who will leave. We have to look forward and attack the next challenge ahead of us. It's always nice to score and even better to score a hat-trick. Most important was to win the game so it was a brilliant night for us. We knew it was going to be tough and we didn't start off well.
"We knew they would give us space and we could have scored more than four to be fair. They could have scored more as well. You need to raise your level when you play better opponents. I tried to keep doing what I've been doing."
Amorim was keen to downplay the significance of the victory.
"What I can tell you is that this [result] doesn't mean anything in particular - don't take anything from this," he insisted. "We cannot transport one reality to another. Manchester United cannot play the way we play and we will have to adapt. It's misleading, we were very lucky today, but the feeling with my players, the way they celebrate with the fans was very special.
"I take this with me but when I arrive to the Premier League it is a different world, different pressure. It will be fun, very fun, and I'm ready for the challenge."
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