Viktor Gyokeres has two qualities that make him Mikel Arteta's dream Arsenal transfer

There will be question marks over whether Viktor Gyokeres can take his prolific goalscoring form from Portugal into the Premier League once he completes his Arsenal transfer. The Gunners' long search for a new striker looks set to end with the capture of the Swede from Sporting CP for a fee around the £70million mark.

RB Leipzig ace Benjamin Sesko was heavily linked with a switch to the Emirates Stadium but it will now be Gyokeres who leads the line for Mikel Arteta. The Stockholm-born player has enjoyed two remarkable seasons in Portugal after notching 97 goals and 28 assists in 102 games.

Gyokeres is certainly a goalscorer and the hope will be that he can shoot Arsenal to the trophies that have eluded them in recent years. The 27-year-old made the move to Lisbon two years ago after making a real name for himself in the Championship with Coventry City.

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An integral part of Mark Robins' side, Gyokeres could well have been playing in the Premier League in August 2023 had Coventry not lost the Championship play-off final on penalties to Luton Town. A spell at the CBS Arena was not his first taste of English football, though, as he had initially made the move to Brighton & Hove Albion from Swedish side IF Brommapojkarna in January 2018.

The Seagulls are known for their success in the transfer market but this was a rare deal that unfortunately did not work out for the south coast club. After initially playing his football in the Under-23s team, Gyokeres made the step up to the first team but he was limited to only eight appearances for the club, all of which were either in the FA Cup or Carabao Cup.

The frontman was named in three Premier League squads but never took to the pitch in the top flight for Brighton. After time on loan with St. Pauli, Swansea City and Coventry before his move to the Sky Blues was made permanent, his spell in the West Midlands proved to be the making of him as he took his game to another level.

Jake Bidwell was a teammate of Gyokeres at both Swansea and Coventry and noted that his teammate came back "a different animal" after joining the Sky Blues permanently. In an interview with Manchester Evening News last November, the defender highlighted the striker's "bulletproof mentality" as a huge factor in his incredible rise.

"If you'd told me then he would have been banging in goals in the Champions League in three or four years' time I would have found it hard to believe," said Bidwell when initially asked about their time together at Swansea. "He joined Coventry on loan and then signed for them permanently. All the lads have said when he came back in the summer after signing permanently, he was a different animal.

"He had been working out in the gym all summer, and it was almost like he was a different man. He was still young at the time and growing into himself but the main thing was his belief grew from there.

"With the way he plays as well, with his aggression, the two [qualities] go hand in hand with how well he has done. He all of a sudden realised how quick and strong he was and had the confidence to use it and mixed with the aggression, it's made him pretty unstoppable."

He added: "Even if he doesn't score, he isn't the type of striker who isn't contributing much to the game. The way that he plays he is just a constant threat. He can go in behind, he can hold the ball up, he's a nightmare for centre-halves to play against because he is up and at you and all-action all the time.

"He has improved his game in every aspect since I first saw him but the main thing that sets him apart is his aggression. Nothing seems to affect him and he has developed a bulletproof mentality. Sporting is a massive club in Portugal and obviously the level is different but he has already shown he can play for a big club on a massive stage like the Champions League.

"There is always an unknown but knowing Viktor, he fully believed he was going to handle himself. When he was coming towards the end of his time at Coventry, there was no way he wasn't going to succeed because his belief was that strong.

"That is something you need to be a top player and he has shown he has got that and made the step up look easy really. He has become the main man for his country, too, alongside Alexander Isak and he just seems to take everything in his stride. I don't see why that wouldn't continue [if he joined Manchester United]."

That belief and mentality should stand Gyokeres in good stead when he finally pulls on the Arsenal shirt for the first time. The Gunners have desperately lacked a proven goalscorer and Gyokeres is exactly that.

He could silence any potential doubters very quickly indeed if his prolific Sporting CP form carries on at Arsenal.