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2025-26 Performances

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5.4 Season Average Rating
Appearances
22
Goals
6
Assists
1
Yellow cards
1
NewGlory said:
Watching him play and not seeing any inkling of greatness. The players @Dan_F mentioned may not have been finished product at the age of 22, but you could see they were diamond in rough, needing a bit more polish. If you think Sesko is any of that - I envy you or we are watching different games

And yes, my main point is - we need real deal as a starting striker, not some "maybe we give him more time" bullshit. Time didn't help Hojlund at United, did it? Sesko will be exactly the same. You can remind me in two years, if you want
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So it seems we need two new strikers (one as backup). Who would you sign?
 
NewGlory said:
You are wrong three times, mate
1. We are not a training ground for "maybe" talents. United deserves starting striker who is at the level of Cavani and Zlatan at their peak
2. We shouldn't be dropping 75 fecking quids on work-in-progress "maybes". You can gamble £40M or £45M at most, on a young prospect, but for £75M we should see some actual performance. Wasteful spends like this is why we have spent more than most and are still total shite
3. You do know Sesko is currently the only out-and-out striker we have, right? Cunha is not a striker and neither is Zirkzee. So our starting, only formal striker is a work-in-progress, and you think that is normal? You either became United fan recently or something is seriously wrong with your perspective about our club
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NewGlory said:
They teach it in kindergarten that just because another kid is behaving badly, doesn't mean you should too. Were you out on the day they taught that in your kindergarten?

Just because Liverpool shit their whole bed doesn't mean we are ok shitting half of our bed
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You missed the point by a spectacular distance there.

It’s funny you mention kindergarten though, because your post sounds like that of a petulant child who’s never paid any attention to football before, just wanting the perfect transfer to magically happen or you’ll throw your toys out the pram.

Because the reality is that every single football transfer is a “maybe”. All signings are a gamble to some degree. There’s no such such thing as a guaranteed success. It’s easy to look back with the benefit of hindsight, name dropping the likes of Ibrahimovic as obvious successes, whilst conveniently ignoring all the elite, big money moves that well established strikers made only to flop for various reasons. Shevchenko was a ball d’Or winner, Torres terrorized PL defences, Isak was seen as the elite available striking prospect, and yet they all struggled/are struggling. Torres went from banging them in for fun for Liverpool to going his first 14 matches at Chelsea without a single goal. Meanwhile Sesko has barely had a settled run of games for us yet.

And as you don’t seem to have noticed, our current club is not the same club Fergie built. We don’t “deserve” anything. We have to earn it. Years of mismanagement means we’re no longer the biggest draw in the PL, and the reality of increased competition in the market along with various financial constraints means we can’t always get our top picks. You might like like that reality, but throwing a tantrum about it isn't going to change it.
 
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He looks exactly how he did in his highlight reel from before we signed him. It’s really not his fault.
 
I think the people who have already judged Sesko need to calm down. You don’t get a top striker for 70m. You get a top potential. Sesko cost us roughly what Newcastle cost Woltemade and Liverpool paid for Ekitike. Their ages are similar and their bundesliga stats are also similar. Sesko hasn’t settled as well YET. It’s his first season in the PL the worlds on his shoulders and he hasn’t hit the standards needed. It’ll come.

If you want a ready made world beater (which is often also a risk) you have to drop over 100m on a striker.

Now let’s be fair to Sesko and compare him to the ready made pl £115m striker. Has Isak who we all know is a top, top quality (one of the current best) done more of looked better than Sesko?
 
IrishRedDevil said:
He looks exactly how he did in his highlight reel from before we signed him. It’s really not his fault.
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What does this even mean like

You saying I told you so because you weren’t impressed by his highlight reel pre-signing?
 
Lennon7 said:
What does this even mean like

You saying I told you so because you weren’t impressed by his highlight reel pre-signing?
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It means we got exactly what we bought.

We just have to hope he can step up and settle in the league and show more.
 
NewGlory said:
You are wrong three times, mate
1. We are not a training ground for "maybe" talents. United deserves starting striker who is at the level of Cavani and Zlatan at their peak
2. We shouldn't be dropping 75 fecking quids on work-in-progress "maybes". You can gamble £40M or £45M at most, on a young prospect, but for £75M we should see some actual performance. Wasteful spends like this is why we have spent more than most and are still total shite
3. You do know Sesko is currently the only out-and-out striker we have, right? Cunha is not a striker and neither is Zirkzee. So our starting, only formal striker is a work-in-progress, and you think that is normal? You either became United fan recently or something is seriously wrong with your perspective about our club


What technical quality are you admiring? Clearly finishing is not his strength, neither is intelligence to be in the right spot for a cheap finish, or ability to dribble past defense.

Is there any other definition of "technnical quality" that we are unaware of? Because what those words usually mean - Sesko doesn't show any of. For crying out loud, he is taller than most basketball players and he sucks even in aerial duels / heading in a goal
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No idea what you’re waffling on about; how can I be wrong three times when I’ve not made any suggestions related to those three points.

If you want to talk about something that is factually wrong, rather than putting words into my mouth, the initial fee was £66 million. If he’s as shit as you think, we won’t be paying any add ons. Feel free to edit your post or use the correct amount moving forward.
 
Man Utd 1:0 Newcastle New
Shame that he was taken off after hitting the bar. He should have done better with the Dorgu cross.
 
I actually thought that was the sharpest he's looked so far in a United shirt, and was a reassuring showing. Looked quicker and more co-ordinated, held the ball up alright, and had some successful flicks.

I felt sorry for him when 2 minutes in he's clean through on goal and Mount refuses to slip the pass in to him, and when Cunha takes two shots from near impossible angles instead of squaring the ball to him at the back post.
 
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Wish that effort that hit the bar had gone in, the lad needs confidence real bad
 
Unlucky to hit the bar, some nice flicks and linkup play in the first half. Didnt do that well in the 2nd half for 15 mins he stayed on for, but I think it was because all our players were so deep defending that when the ball came to him he didnt have any options. It didnt get any better
 
Thought he was decent. Good link up play, unlucky to hit the bar.

Had nothing upfront once we went off (which could be as much to do with Zirzkees pathetic performance tbf)
 
Nice link up play and can't fault the effort he puts into closing players down, could do with a goal but I fear him and Cunha don't quite mesh as well as we'd hoped
 
Good in general play. But he has to start scoring. Miles ahead of Zirkzee. Shouldn't have been taken off.
 
Hopefully someone asks Amorim why he made that sub. Truly baffling when the other option is Zirkzee.
 
Scuffed his chances again today but his link up play was a bit better. I’ll give him this season before I decide it’s time to bin him off.
 
Does good orthodox things, which is already a plus for me but a low bar. Unless we start dominating the ball and can feed him chances every dozen minutes, I'm not sure we're going to see a higher level from him as of now.
 
Valencia Shin Crosses said:
Feels like he has 0 instincts in the box, which is worrying. Hes got some solid physical and technical gifts but the way he approaches so many situations is all wrong.
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No striker worth their salt would have thought to take a touch with that chance he had.
 
Valencia Shin Crosses said:
Feels like he has 0 instincts in the box, which is worrying. Hes got some solid physical and technical gifts but the way he approaches so many situations is all wrong.
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I think we're telling our STs to attack the box late for cutbacks. Problem is we don't really have the players for that, I think he looked better with the back 4. Need more from him, but this game was better and towards the right direction
 
He was average at best today. Would’ve been great for him to score instead of hitting the post.

Should work better on his aggression on the pitch. I sometimes look at him and feel he isn’t trying enough
 
Technically was great so many good flicks and touches, but then he just strolls around like a bit of a lump. He’s got zero aggression - almost the opposite of Hojlund who was a headless chicken.

Very nearly a great goal there though.
 
thegregster said:
Good in general play. But he has to start scoring. Miles ahead of Zirkzee. Shouldn't have been taken off.
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He’s just a bit poor, kept bringing it down and running into our our half before losing the ball
Zirkzee is also bad but I see no harm trying and hoping he has a random good game when Sesko was giving it away
 
Carlsen19 said:
No striker worth their salt would have thought to take a touch with that chance he had.
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It was behind him. He made the wrong decision to swivel to his left and the effort wasnt very good. He had lost his bearings and must have thought he was more to the right of the pitch. But hes not taking a touch if he can hit it first time. It was behind him so he had to rescue it
 
His link up play was good but he desperately needs a goal. He struck the ball nicely for that chance that hit the bar but I think he was offside, if I’m not mistaken? There’s some games coming up now where he can hopefully bag a couple of goals to get his season going.
 
Erics_Collar said:
Bit of a tragic figure up front. Feel sorry for him, he's clearly just not good enough.
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Tragic is a bit much, he hit the bar with the one effort I remember him having.

He is only just back from an injury, hopefully we can put a few last Wolves and he can get one or two give his confidence a big boost.
 
Sesko looks out of his depth atm. The football is just way to quick for him.
He needs so much space and time.
He has potential but he probably needs a loan spell to gain experience and confidence. To bad we have no one else to play upfront right now.
 
Red & White said:
His link up play was good but he desperately needs a goal. He struck the ball nicely for that chance that hit the bar but I think he was offside, if I’m not mistaken? There’s some games coming up now where he can hopefully bag a couple of goals to get his season going.
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He was on side and panicked
 
He made several good runs that were overlooked by team mates who chose to shot from silly angles.

Also Zirkzee's performance highlighted how much better Sesko's build up play is...

I'm optimistic for Sesko...
 
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