David Seaman has jumped to Viktor Gyokeres’ defence and backed Arsenal’s marquee summer signing to become a real threat once he gets used to the pace and physicality of the Premier League.

Arsenal narrowed their search for a new striker down to just a few names before honing in on a £64million deal for Gyokeres, on the back of the Swede’s extraordinary title-winning season with Sporting.

Gyokeres took Portuguese football by storm with his phenomenal goalscoring exploits across his two years at Sporting, netting 97 times in just 102 appearances after joining from Coventry City.

As perhaps should be expected, Gyokeres has found life rather tougher in the Premier League and the 27-year-old has failed to score in his last four games for the Gunners in the top flight.

Gyokeres has, though, been praised for his work off the ball and the forward will no doubt be buoyed by his midweek performance in Arsenal’s 4-0 defeat of Atletico Madrid, in which he completed a second-half brace.

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