Goalscoring is Gyokeres' most blatant attribute, and there's no doubt he has been a objective machine in Portugal.
His 39 objectives ranked as probably the most in Europe's prime 10 leagues final season, and he scored at the least eight greater than every other participant.
It put him in an elite group – the one different gamers up to now 20 years to have scored at the least 39 objectives in a season in one among Europe's prime 10 leagues are Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Robert Lewandowski and Luis Suarez.
Twelve of Gyokeres' Primeira Liga objectives had been penalties, however his whole of 27 non-penalty objectives was nonetheless three greater than anybody else. He averaged 4.5 pictures per 90 minutes, whereas Jesus had 3.0 and Havertz 2.6 within the Premier League.
He additionally had a mammoth 327 touches within the opposition field and appeared to undertake a ‘shoot on sight' coverage with 139 efforts on objective – successfully one each 20 minutes.
His accuracy was much more spectacular.
The Swede's shot-conversion charge (excluding blocked pictures and penalties) of 27.3% was higher than Liverpool ahead Mohamed Salah (21.1%), Manchester Metropolis striker Erling Haaland (21.6%) and Newcastle centre-forward Isak (26.4%).
Certainly solely Nottingham Forest's Chris Wooden had a greater conversion charge within the Premier League.
Gyokeres additionally scored 9 objectives in six video games for his nation – together with 4 in a single match towards Azerbaijan – within the 2024-25 Nations League, ending the match as prime scorer.
The query is whether or not Gyokeres could be fairly so prolific in a stronger league. He has now turned 27 and remains to be to play a single recreation in Europe's prime 5 divisions.
Information analysts Opta rank the Portuguese Primeira Liga as eighth in the world's strongest leagues,, external behind the same old large 5 (England, Italy, Spain, Germany and France), the Belgian Jupiler Professional League and even the English Championship, the place Gyokeres impressed earlier than transferring to Lisbon.
Sceptics will level to Liverpool striker Darwin Nunez struggling for consistency in England after scoring 26 objectives in 28 Primeira Liga video games for Benfica in the course of the 2021-22 season.
However Manchester United's Bruno Fernandes, Manchester Metropolis's Ruben Dias and Bournemouth's Evanilson have all thrived within the Premier League after strikes from Portugal.
And Gyokeres brings greater than objectives.
The 6ft 2in striker is thought for his clever motion and intense work-rate, and his mix of bodily power, technical talent and tactical consciousness have earned him admiring glances.
He's a creator in addition to a goalscorer, with quite a lot of his likelihood creation coming from his love of working with the ball.
After failing to make the grade at Brighton, Gyokeres joined Coventry for a small price in July 2021 after an unspectacular return of three objectives in 19 Championship appearances throughout a mortgage spell with the Sky Blues.
Two years later he went to Sporting for £20.5m after scoring 38 occasions in 91 league video games for Coventry throughout the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons.
In Portugal he grew to become a scoring machine. As he returns to England, solely time will inform if he can replicate that success towards elite-level defences.
