Current Analogue
Victor Osimhen
Galatasaray
CF
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Viktor Gyökeres
power runner · channel attacks · physical receiving
- Position
- ST
- Age
- 28
- Height
- 187 cm
- Foot
- Right
BRSBest Role Score
87
Best rolePrima Punta
Source-linked · calibration provisional
About this assessment
BRS means Best Role Score: our assessment of a player in their best role.
Supporting sources are linked, but the scoring scale is still being checked. This score may change.
BRS v2 · 2025–26
Scouting detail
power runner · channel attacks · physical receiving
Totemestablished
Enforcer
Positions
ST
Converted from recorded positions. Positional familiarity has not been assessed.
The comparisons
A way to understand the player’s game.
Historical Analogue
Alan Shearer
Blackburn Rovers 1993-1996
A physical centre-forward who holds it and finishes
Why the comparison works
Gyökeres' use of strength to hold the ball up and then finish connects with Shearer's Blackburn 1993–96 phase. Shearer's 34 league goals in the 1994–95 title season and his hat-trick against Coventry in September 1995 are in-phase examples. The comparison concerns a power-based No 9 role, not matching Shearer's scoring rate.
Shared qualities
- Holding the ball up under contact
- Finishing as the focal centre-forward
- Penalty-taking
Where it breaks down
Shearer's phase evidence stresses heading and a fixed front-two partnership with Sutton, while Gyökeres is a lone striker whose sourced game also includes runs into space behind defences.
A style reference for this phase, not a prediction of Viktor Gyökeres’s ceiling.
Career
8 clubs3 national teams
- ArsenalCurrent
Jul 2025 — Present
Jul 2023 — Jul 2025
Jul 2021 — Jul 2023
Jan 2021 — May 2021
Oct 2020 — Jan 2021
Jul 2019 — Jun 2020