Troy Deeney hits out at Sporting’s three-time international: Not top level | OneFootball

Viktor Gyokeres has had a tough time in England. Troy Deeney has already been very critical of the former Sporting player and once again attacked the Swedish international, claiming that compared to other Premier League strikers, he is at a lower level.

"They’re forcing me to defend that, in reality, he’s playing well because he scored. So now, he deflects a ball, another hits him, and suddenly he’s an elite striker again. What are we doing? He’s not on the level of [Erling] Haaland, he’s not on the level of Harry Kane," he said to talkSPORT.

For Deeney, Gyokeres is "not a top striker": "We’re making someone out to be very good, who plays well and is playing well for the team, but that team doesn’t go beyond [Bukayo] Saka and the two midfielders. He’s not the one making the difference, that’s what I mean. He’s not the one making the difference."

"He probably won’t score, as I said a few weeks ago, more goals than [Mohamed] Salah or [Alexander] Isak, depending on who is Liverpool’s top scorer. I don’t think he’ll score more goals than João Pedro. We’ll see. He hasn’t scored more than Danny Welbeck, but we should talk about him as if he scores as much as Haaland. Why?" he added.

"It’s not even about rankings. It’s just the fact that, when you play for a big club, you get more attention, right? And obviously, when you score, you get more positive attention. But when you analyze and manage not to get emotional, like I do... I don’t care about any of that. If you don’t give him a certain level of credit, they say you’re a ‘hater’, but if you bring up pure facts, like the fact that Welbz has scored more goals in the Premier League than them, they say ‘No, don’t say that’, just because he scored two goals in the Champions League. So, Jesus Christ, you can’t win either way. Just let him work," he concluded.

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