Striker who Arsenal sold for £4m last year now 'worth more' than Viktor Gyokeres

Viktor Gyokeres is in line to finally fill the hole for Arsenal up front which has become glaring over recent seasons for an initial £55million fee.

No player has scored over 20 goals across a campaign for the Gunners since the 2019/2020 season. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang managed 29 back then, a year after hitting 31 and sharing the Golden Boot title with Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane.

Alexandre Lacazette finished the following term on 17 - but the burden has since then fallen upon England star Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli, Kai Havertz and Martin Odegaard following his departure. Gyokeres should now shoulder the expectations after excelling for Sporting CP.

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However, the 26-cap Sweden international is not the only Scandinavian to leave the Premier League and prosper overseas. Mika Biereth is a name that will still be familiar to some Arsenal supporters.

The centre-forward spent three years on the books at Arsenal after signing from Fulham in 2021. Biereth scored 12 goals for the under-21s during his debut season in the academy, the same as the first-team's top goal-scorer, Saka.

Biereth made the subs bench four times, all in January - but did not feature in any of those matches - all of which the Gunners did not score in. They were the FA Cup third round exit to Nottingham Forest, then both legs of their League Cup semi-final with Liverpool (0-0 and 2-0) and the 0-0 draw with Burnley in the Premier League.

But the striker never got a look in again, with loans to RKC Waalwijk (two goals), Motherwell (six goals) and Strum Graz (nine goals). Arsenal then sold Biereth to the latter for just £4million last summer, and he scored 14 goals in 25 games in the first half of the season.

A move to AS Monaco, worth around £13million, then materialised, and the form continued, managing 13 in 19 for his new club to end the campaign with a combined 27 goals across 44 games. As such, CIES Football Observatory estimates Biereth's transfer value as high as £62million - and that's higher than Gyokeres' current worth.