Isn’t this the type of signing everyone always is saying we should make? Young with huge potential. Sign him before he costs $100mm in 2-3 years time. This is how much these type of signings cost so it’s always a gamble. Roll those dice!
Benjamin Sesko | Despite Raees best efforts he’s joining Liepzig. Damn you Raees
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Sesko has 13 goals and 8 assists in 1800 minutes (or 20 full 90s), making his goals per 90 0.65 for Salzburg, In comparison, Adeyemi’s is 0.66 for Salzburg. Sesko’s career GP90 is 0.78 across 3900 minutes, Adeyemi is 0.59 across 7500 minutes. It’s a small sample size but very encouraging signs that he is in fact good at scoring goals. If he does stay at Salzburg, with Adeyemi no longer the main striker you can guarantee him putting in a very strong season for Salzburg statistically.
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I'll caveat this by saying I'm not a huge fan of posting from this particular aggregator as he's not always been completely accurate with his relaying of information. I'll try to do some digging to see if I can find the original.
I reckon he will sign for a club who will make him a starter and it won't be United.
Rok Viskovic was one of the first to break the story of United's interest in Sesko
Yeah, from what I can tell Rok Viskovic has been quite good on this story. I'm just struggling to find the original source of the quote and I should note again that mufcmpb is not a particularly trustworthy aggregator.
Much as it pains me to say this, Arsenal just signed a Premier League proven goalscorer for c£45m. We have to hope that Sesko, with the creativity he has behind him in Eriksen, Bruno, Sancho and hopefully de Jong and Antony (maybe next year), and some good coaching, can turn him into a world beater. I actually think he has all the tools for the job, but it is a massive pressure to put on a 19 year old. Cavani is gone, Greenwood may never play for United again, Ronaldo wants to go, and Martial is injured. He has Charlie McNeill as back up, or Rashford with Garnacho coming in on the left. Not an ideal way to go into our first competitive game of the season, but we have to blame the old regime and our two M.I.A. strikers.
Who will start ahead of him? He could be first choice against Brighton...
He's been on United's radar for many years.
Certain more trustworthy than the likes of CDS or Calcio Mercato
Yeah some people tend to forget we could have signed him for just 3m euros but wasn't ready for the move I reckon
I'm worried we won't get him due to him wanting to follow the Haaland route of development. Smaller progressive moves. I think it's why he turned us down earlier in his career.
In 12 months' time when he isn't scoring 20 goals then the moaners will be saying -- typical United, we always over-pay and land up buying rubbish. When will we ever change? Embarrassing --- or the hipmoaner's word in 2023, humiliating.
He’s a legit Slovenian football journalist. It’s a small country and no doubt very easy to have closer sources for all top Slovenian players, bar maybe Oblak who left the country so young. Then again, it’s a good opportunity to build a following and take advantage of the rumours.
Do you see the irony of a post complaining about people complaining about a hypothetical situation?
News states Man Utd must act swiftly to get this deal done.
If that is true there is not way we will get him :-)
Depending on the final fee I guess he could be a good gamble (Ronaldo do not want to play and Martial will be injured half the season).
If that is true there is not way we will get him :-)
Depending on the final fee I guess he could be a good gamble (Ronaldo do not want to play and Martial will be injured half the season).
exactly, this season is a rebuild- no pressure to win titles, no CL league, get him in, coach him, get him used to the tactics, club etc, then next season, he's fully integrated. With Eriksen in, Sancho more consistent hopefully, and if/when we get De Jong, could be a good time to bed in a striker.
Martial is either near world class or anonymous for 80% of the other games
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How did this situation go from, no one in the world of football was talking about him, to, every big club in world football is desperate to sign him. Based on one goal in a friendly? I want this signing, but it's just getting weird.
Just buy him. We already see our problem that where Martial is injured. We need a striker more, no matter if Rolando stays or not.
Can understand us and Chelsea. Why do PSG and Liverpool need him when they are already bought strikers just this window. Let us have him ffs.
It's pretty clear that isn't the issue, we want him, it's whether or not he wants us.
Not sure that's true in the case of Jovic
Do you not think £30/40 m on a player such as Sesko is a bit of a gamble considering our budget is fairly limited?
Liverpool makes no sense, they just signed Nunez. PSG does like to stockpile young talent, but their name gets thrown into every transfer now, so it could be BS. Chelsea seems genuine, since they are known to be looking for a striker.Can understand us and Chelsea. Why do PSG and Liverpool need him when they are already bought strikers just this window. Let us have him ffs.
Well, if you are right, the small progressive move out of the clubs mentioned below, would obviously be us.
It’s on!
After Ten Hag's comments about signing the right guys I can only trust this guy to be worth it. And we do really need a striker.
I doubt it’s based off his one goal against Liverpool. What often happens in these situations is a number of clubs are “monitoring” his progress and have had scouts watch him. They don’t necessarily make a move straight away. But as soon as one of the clubs makes a serious move for him, then I imagine the other clubs realise they would have to act now too in order not to miss out.
Other times it can just be made up to drum up interest or hike the price.
PSG don't really stockpile young talents and barely sign them which was actually an issue and a possible change of strategy. But PSG are currently trying to get rid of a lot players, so anyone linking them with players is likely lying.
They dont. It's just his agent briefing to drum up contract offers.Can understand us and Chelsea. Why do PSG and Liverpool need him when they are already bought strikers just this window. Let us have him ffs.
I don't think anyone is thinking United is the best place to work on personal development.
As soon as a report emerged that we have made an offer, reports of other offers appear. Standard sort of leaking I would say drum up some false narratives to push Utds hand a bit further. Just means this won’t be straightforward but it never is with us.
Disneyland my arse!
Disneyland my arse!
What I don’t get is why we didn’t sign him for 3 million and tell him we’d find him a great loan etc. We seem to stand aside unless these players are happy to do a season or two in our youth teams which is a mistake. Get them signed and loan them out. It works.
I don't follow them to closely, I just know whenever I start looking into a promising you player that we've been linked with I am shocked at how often a lot of them spent some time at PSG. I guess they don't stockpile, maybe they are just ruthless and buy and sell frequently.
Because it doesn't work and players seldomly go for it.
Which players are you talking about though? Because PSG has one of the best academy around, a fair amount of current french talents started there.
Nkunku comes to mind first, but there were many, I just don't remember, we get linked to so many players, who can keep track.
everything happens next week for some reason. next week itll be the week after,
Everything is a gamble, no matter the player. There are no guarantees in footballNot sure that's true in the case of Jovic
Do you not think £30/40 m on a player such as Sesko is a bit of a gamble considering our budget is fairly limited?
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