Arsenal right back Ben White has offered a clear assessment of Viktor Gy\u00f6keres after the striker\u2019s arrival at the club, praising his training habits and the physical presence he brings to the squad.<\/p>\n
Gy\u00f6keres earned a prolific reputation during two years at Sporting CP in Lisbon, where a strong goal return prompted Arsenal to pay \u00a355 million ($74.2 million) for the 27-year-old. His early appearances in north London have been mixed; Swedish media accused him of being out of shape after an underwhelming pair of appearances this month. Despite that, Gy\u00f6keres has impressed his new teammates in training.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t say a bad word about him to be honest,\u201d White gushed to Arsenal\u2019s in-house media . \u201cHe\u2019s one of the most professional trainers I\u2019ve ever seen, he\u2019s right up there with Martin \u00d8degaard in that respect. It\u2019s great that we have these players coming in, because all this competition for places makes people lift their standards and it makes everyone better.\u201d<\/p>\n
White underlined Gy\u00f6keres\u2019s combination of size and movement, and the challenge he represents for defenders.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a monster!\u201d the Arsenal defender laughed. \u201cHe lives for goals. doesn\u2019t he? He\u2019s a constant threat. You really don\u2019t want to get in his way when you are playing against him, because he\u2019ll just move you out of the way anyway!<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s such a big presence and I think it will be a massive help that he\u2019s already played in English football. You see a lot of people come to the Premier League and they\u2019ve had no taste of what it\u2019s like and it can be a struggle.<\/p>\n
White\u2019s remarks signal that, from the dressing room perspective, Gy\u00f6keres\u2019s professionalism and physical profile are positives for Arsenal. The competition for places that followed the transfer is already being framed as a motivator within the squad, with training standards highlighted as a key benefit of the new arrival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ben White says Gyokeres matches Odegaard in training and brings fierce competition in Arsenal. soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,969],"tags":[984],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal","category-premier-league","tag-ben-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}