lorddulaarsenal He arrived this summer overweight and he’s not been able to get back to the fitness levels he was previously at.
If this is an issue, he's had a whole season now to get fit. I don't see how this holds up.
lorddulaarsenal He seems thicker set in the legs and is therefore less agile and it hinders his ability to turn, evade challenges and find a yard for himself
If you watch his goals in Portugal, he rarely had to work that hard to gain a yard of space because defences weren't as deep and didn't mark him as tightly (which masked his technical limitations). As the space available has shrunk in the PL, what it's shown up is how many touches he needs to get a shot away and how lacking his close ball control is.
lorddulaarsenal Granted Premier League defenders are better able to close space and win duels but the 2025 Gyokeres would have achieved more this season.
Again, I'm really not sure this is conditioning. We saw similar when Baptista joined - a beast in La Liga but fell over a lot when under greater physical pressure in the Prem. When you couple that with his shortcomings in tight spaces, that's why he's not scoring the goals he did in Portugal.
