Rubén Amorim refused to joke about the signing of Viktor Gyokeres for Manchester United.

Gyokeres man city gutted, score a hat-trick Amorim’s Sporting Lisbon beat Pep Guardiola’s team 4-1.

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Understandably, United fans have been excited by Amorim’s arrival. imminent arrival at Old Trafford next week.

However, Gyokeres won’t come with him yet.

The former Brighton and Coventry striker has a terrifying record with Sporting. This season alone he has scored 23 goals in only 17 games.

The 26-year-old also has an £84million release clause and has been linked with a move to a top European club.

Amorim was asked if Gyokeres would join him in Manchester.

he said TNT Sports: “No, no, no, no. I can’t be funny about it right now. It’s a matter of me leaving, if I’m joking about Gyokeres, I’ll be in trouble.

“This is my city, this is my country, so I will respect it. “Viktor has to stay until the end of the season and then his life, perhaps, will go to someone else.”

Meanwhile, hat-trick hero Gyokeres addressed his coach’s imminent departure after the match.

He told UEFA: “We will miss him very much.

“We’ve done some amazing things together. We’ll miss him and the other guys on staff who will be leaving. We have to look forward and attack the next challenge ahead of us.”

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Reflecting on the game as a whole, the striker added: “It’s always nice to score and even better to score a hat-trick. The most important thing was to win the game, so it was a brilliant night for us.”

“We knew it was going to be difficult and we didn’t start well. We knew they would give us space and we could have scored more than four to be fair. They could have scored more too. You have to raise your level.” level when you play against better opponents. “I tried to keep doing what I’ve been doing.”

This will be Amorim’s last home game in charge of Sporting, with the club traveling to Braga at the weekend.

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He will officially start working at Manchester United on November 11, in his first game after the international break.

Amorim, who took a long lap of honor after the match, said: “Those who were here and watched Sporting for the last four years deserved a night like this. It was very special.”

“But we shouldn’t stay here, it shouldn’t be something isolated. It was special given the circumstances, but we have to think about the next game against Braga.

“Maybe it was written in the stars that we should end this way. I will keep these memories forever, but I still can’t fully enjoy them.”