Manchester United's potential swoop for Viktor Gyokeres could spell good news for Brighton and Hove Albion's finances. The 26-year-old forward, who joined the Seagulls from Swedish outfit Brommapojkarna as a teen, had a limited impact at the club with just eight appearances and none in the Premier League.

After loan spells at Coventry City and Swansea City, he made a permanent switch to Coventry. Brighton, having sold him for a modest sum reportedly over $1.2m (£1m)—a deal overseen by United's current sporting director Dan Ashworth during his tenure as technical director at Brighton—stand to gain financially from a sell-on clause agreed upon with Coventry at the time of sale.

Coventry's owner Doug King confirmed the arrangement on talkSPORT, saying, "That was a tough negotiation with Sporting Lisbon. If he does get moved on to another chapter in his career, then we'll benefit, but I'm not holding my breath; we're not running the club on that basis [but] we'll take it when and if it comes."

"But realize as well that a large part of anything that comes our way heads down to his original club at Brighton. Everybody seems to think it goes straight into the coffers, but these sell-ons accumulate down the chain, so you need to be bringing them up from your academy, hopefully, to get the full 100 percent, but a lot of it still goes down the chain."

Gyokeres reportedly has a release clause of $106m (£83m/€100m), but Portuguese reports suggest that the striker could be available for as low as $64m (£50m).

If Sporting was to sell closer to the former amount rather than the latter, it would likely significantly decrease the fee they are required to pass on to Coventry and similarly reduce the sum they hand over to Brighton.