The 27-year-old joined Arsenal from Sporting in the summer with many expecting him to be the final piece of Mikel Arteta’s title winning puzzle.
Gyokeres hasn’t quite lived up to the hype, scoring three goals in his ten games across all competitions, although Arsenal do sit top of the Premier League table.
Ahead of their trip to Fulham on Saturday (October 18) Arteta has fired a warning at the striker, telling him he needs to get used to the pressure that comes with his position.
"I told him before the first meeting, I said, ‘the nine that I want is a nine that when he doesn’t score for six or eight games, he can handle that. If not, you have to go somewhere else because the expectation is going to be there’," he said.
“So, if you put on a nine shirt for Arsenal, you have to be able to say, ‘OK, six games, if I don’t score, I’m a different player? I start to act in a different way?’. No, I want much more of the same of what he’s doing."