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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Simon Collings

Viktor Gyokeres: Why Arsenal and Manchester United want goal machine who ‘could reach Haaland level’

Hearing what Viktor Gyokeres was like as a child, it is easy to understand how he has become one of the most lethal strikers in Europe.

“He was super dedicated and focused - and he never talked about anything but football,” Bjorn Thuresson, president of Gyokeres’ first club IFK Aspudden-Tellus, tells Standard Sport.

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