We already fecked up by leaving it so late. The entire of Europe will know we are desperate.
Benjamin Sesko | Despite Raees best efforts he’s joining Liepzig. Damn you Raees
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if they're open to selling him next summer just get a first refusal deal sorted for then now
For once I don't blame the club, Ronaldo dropped the bombshell late in the window that he wants out and we had to react. If he was transparent after the season it would be much easier for us.
I think he should be attainable for far less than £40M, £25M as a total (fee+add ons) should enough and in line with the fees they get for their players.
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I never said he was crap at all, just too expensive for his current stage of development. We've left things too late in the window and silly money is being quoted for players who are nowhere near the finished article, we've brought this on ourselves.
The trajectory of his value is only going up. He's on a long term deal till 2026 so waiting till next summer only makes things harder.
We were always looking for a forward this summer regardless of him
I agree but Salzburg are reluctant to sell because they sold Adeyemi in the same window. If we had gone in sooner, as in our supposed legend informed us that he wanted to leave at the end of last season we could have planned this better and gotten him on the cheap.
Like who?
But the profile of that signing changes a lot. We're suddenly in need of a Ronaldo replacement rather than depth or competition, and it seems we're certainly not going to be after a winger if we have to put all the budget on a replacement. Otherwise a replacement would have been signed a year later when he left.
idk something like 35 million € and bonuses sounds possible to me. Anything higher it starts looking like a rip off.
Not really an excuse, we needed to replace Greenwood anyway so a forward should have been signed by now especially when it's clear that Amad, Pellistri and Elanga aren't ready or may not be good enough at all.
I think Antony was our target to replace him. That's the guy who we went in late on and are now being priced out of a move. This guy looks like more of a reaction to the Ronaldo bombshell.
Woah, it is unbelievable that Salzburg with demand £55M for Sesko, they never received such fee for their best players that they sold, even Adeyemi went for less than £30M.
It seems as if they want him to follow the usual path of RB Salzburg to RB Leipzig (similar to Keita & Szoboszlai), 1 or 2 years developing with Salzburg, then they sell him to RBL, then 2-3 years in BuLi, if he becomes much better, they will get clubs competing for his signature and go for £60M or more.
Seriously.
Name you’re looking for is the Balkans, easy mistake. In any case, I have 100% faith in Tier 1 Balkan GFs
Edit: Neither Slovenia nor Slovakia are part of the Balkans either, so I guess we’re both daft
Ffs guys, are we feeling hurt because some mix up in the geography area
We call them Alp Serbs.
Holy shit dudes!
I'm sorry
£40m and I reckon they would sell him
Salzburg sold Haaland to Dortmund for €20M and now they demand that. Yeah, right.
It was actually funny due to the geographical mistake.
I mean he did want to leave from I think it was around 17th of June. Not exactly late in the transfer window. I think when he told them that back then, we should have been arranging for him to leave asap and making contacts with agents and clubs. We have just left that part late and now prices are going up such as with Antony for example. Our main focus was on the De Jong transfer and now that is on hold we are reacting to the Ronaldo issue.
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Holy shit dudes!
I'm sorry
I mean this isn't new, clubs know we're schmucks. Look at what Ajax got us to hand over for Martinez. Why wouldn't Salzburg demand that for a young striker when strikers are far more in demand. United can't keep paying these fees and then acting shocked that clubs are demanding that of them.
Haaland also had a release clause, otherwise I'm sure he would have cost Dortmund more.
Damn, I really like the look of this player but can't say I blame the club for not wanting to spend £55m.
I wonder how long we will spend dithering on this. Maybe spend 1 week looking to bring the price down to no avail
Yes you are right, my bad, totally forgot about this. Hopefully if they indeed demand too much, we could do a deal for Sesko with multiple add-ons based on his evolvement.
I'd say 2-3 weeks negotiating since it'll be add ons
Give it a week where we'll get 24-48hrs tweets
He had a release clause…
Besides, striker prices have exploded and Salzburg have built a good reputation of nurturing very bright talents.
He also has a long contract and at the moment there seems to be no talk of a release clause. Their season has already started. The player will be a regular in the team possibly in CL as well, so other than salary also no need to rush anything from the players side.
Salzburg have countless reasons to ask for a very high price if they were to sell him this summer.
Can someone @ me when we unzip?
It was always going to be around that price £35m with 10m add ons which is around €55m
Would need a player and agent to push for a deal and even then we are probably looking at 40 million at least.
Well done I guess.
It seems every club thinks we are there to be shafted. If somebody like Leicester or West Ham went in for him the price would be halved.
Think we should try to sort out a £25-30m fixed fee with performance related add ons that take it closer to what they are looking for. Similar to the type of deal we did for Martial.
it's £55m according to ducker, not euros
Or more likely he was planned to be their main man this season without Adayemi, so with the latter having already moved they don’t want to sell and have given a feck you price when asked
that’s high but this is one of those moments where if we want to get in ahead of the others like we should have with Haaland and Bellingham we should pay it and get it done.
So you’re saying Zagreb isn’t in the Balkans because it’s north of the Sava river? To the Balkans thread!
You lot are Balkan mad 
It's crazy how people are saying we should spend more than what Haaland and Adeyemi went for.
They have been scouting him way before that. The problem is that interest is picking up on Sesko so we are probably making a move before the demand increases. Similar to the Diallo deal.
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