Arsenal are on the verge of signing Sporting striker Viktor Gyokeres after negotiations over the finer particulars of the switch took longer than anticipated.
BBC Sport reported final week a £63.5m deal was within the remaining levels, with Arsenal hoping it might be completed for the start of their pre-season tour of Asia, which begins on Sunday.
Nonetheless, the transfer for the Sweden ahead has been held up due to negotiations between the golf equipment over add-on funds.
Gyokeres has already agreed phrases and a five-year contract with the Gunners.
The 27-year-old has been in demand throughout the summer time switch window after scoring 54 targets in 52 video games for Sporting final season.
BBC Sport revealed earlier this month how Arsenal had turned their attentions to Gyokeres after hitting an deadlock of their bid to signal Benjamin Sesko from RB Leipzig.
The seek for a striker has been a drawn-out course of for supervisor Mikel Arteta, who has been determined so as to add an elite centre-forward after his aspect scored 17 fewer targets and completed 10 factors behind champions Liverpool within the Premier League final season.
The Spaniard boosted his total attacking choices with the signing of England winger Noni Madueke, 23, from Chelsea final week.
