‘Wow, what a finisher’: Harry Redknapp says £85m striker Arsenal reportedly want is so underrated

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Viktor Gyokeres has been linked to Arsenal recently as the Gunners continue to look for a striker.

The Swedish forward is now being valued at £85m after making a £20m move to Sporting CP from Coventry City in the summer.

Premier League clubs must be kicking themselves for not signing Gyokeres on the cheap when they had the chance, and now, he’ll cost an absolute fortune.

Speaking on the BBC Transfer Gossip Daily Podcast, Harry Redknapp has been discussing the reported Arsenal target, and he says that the striker has been massively underrated due to the league he played in last season, comparing his time at Coventry to Virgil van Dijk’s time at Celtic.

Gyokeres underrated

Redknapp shared his verdict on the striker.

“Van Dijk played at Celtic, they all went to watch him and came back and said ‘it’s the Scottish league, it’s lower, it’s easy,’ and then he goes to Liverpool. I watched him (Gyokeres) last year scoring goals for fun and I thought wow what a finisher. I watched a documentary on Eidur Gudjohnsen, and Gianluca Vialli believed in him when he was at Chelsea and he was at Bolton. There are so many players like that, he’s good enough, if he scores goals at Coventry he’ll score goals anywhere,” Redknapp said.

Hard to judge

Redknapp is spot on here, Gyokeres was massively underrated because he was at Coventry, but, at the same time, goals in the Championship don’t always translate to goals in the Premier League.

Indeed, for every Gyokeres and Ivan Toney there’s an Adam Armstrong, a Dwight Gayle and a Matej Vydra.

The Championship is full of talented players, but not all of them are ready to make the grade in the Premier League, and separating these two categories of players is very difficult.

Gyokeres does look Premier League ready now, and it could well be Arsenal who take the plunge and decide to go after him in the near future.