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I would love to play for Man United this January – Man United met with agent of €50m RB Leipzig striker who’s keen to play at Old Trafford with Personal terms almost agreed
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I would love to play for Man United this January – Man United met with agent of €50m RB Leipzig striker who’s keen to play at Old Trafford with Personal terms almost agreed
Man Utd met with the agent of Benjamin Sesko during Erik ten Hag’s first summer window with the club.
It seems certain Manchester United will need to add some extra firepower to their attack this summer and they might already have an ideal candidate to do that.
If you head back to Erik ten Hag’s first summer in charge of the club, the clues are already there. With a week to go until the first match of the season, United were in the market for at least one further attacking addition, with a preference for two.
In the end, they only ended up getting one. Antony from Ajax for an eye-watering £86million fee, as the Dutch club held out for more money amid United’s growing desperation after two defeats from two.
United approached Brian Brobbey, who played under Ten Hag on loan during his final season at Ajax, but he made that deal permanent with RB Leipzig. United considered his replacement as well.
John Murtough met the agent of then-RB Salzburg striker Benjamin Sesko to gauge the possibility of a transfer. There were doubts about his suitability for the role and he eventually agreed to join Leipzig instead in a deal that was deferred for a year.
His 18 goals in 41 appearances last season were not exactly earth-shattering, compared with the 28 in 22 that Erling Haaland netted in his final half of a season with the same club, but they were still pretty impressive.
The real test would come when he finally joined Leipzig this campaign, though his start to life there hasn’t told the full story either.
At the age of just 20, he has struggled for regular playing time behind the more experienced Yussuf Poulsen and the in-form Lois Openda, yet he has still notched a decent goal tally.
Sesko has scored seven goals in just 765 minutes of football this season, with an average of a goal in every 109 minutes for Leipzig. That is far better than anyone in a United shirt. Casemiro has averaged a goal every 238 minutes and Rasmus Hojlund one every 249 minutes.
“I think it was better just to come here,” Sesko told Transfermarkt of his decision to join Leipzig rather than a team like United.
“It was really important for me to go to a place that was playing a similar style of football. I already knew what to do and didn’t have to go through an entire learning process again.”
The Bundesliga side still has high hopes for Sesko and he could well be in for a more important role if they cash in on Openda this summer, yet his situation is just as interesting.
Reports in Germany this week suggest a €50m release clause will be valid in the summer and that could make him the ideal addition to a United side that will be looking to replace Anthony Martial.
Sesko would certainly be appealing as a relatively low-cost addition for a club like United, but the problem would be his inexperience and what it would mean for the future of Rasmus Hojlund.
They are both the same age and perhaps even at roughly the same level of ability, so just like a move for Joshua Zirkzee, it could be a problem doubled rather than halved.
Only one of Sesko or Hojlund could realistically be expected to start on a regular basis and the other would naturally suffer from a lack of playing time, hampering their own progress at the expense of the other.
A move for Sesko should definitely be considered as an option for United this summer, but that doesn’t mean he should be anywhere close to being a priority