Benjamin Sesko has moved above Ollie Watkins in the pecking order of Manchester United while watching the RB Leipzig striker to their team for the new season
Benjamin Sesko has moved to the top of the Manchester United wish list while they want to add the striker to their ranks. The Red Devils have already signed Matheus Cunha from Wolves and Bryan Mbeumo from Brentford, but Ruben Amorim is open to adding more firepower by his side after the urgent campaign of the Club 2024/25.
The highly appreciated Sesko seems to continue after Leipzig Champions League had missed football. United will be completely absent in European football this season, but that is not thought that it has deposed the Slovenian.
Allegedly, Sesko is preferred to move to Old Trafford above Newcastle, who are also on the market for a top attacker, with Liverpool-linked Alexander Isak-fishing for a relocation of Tyneside. According to athletics, Sesko is the priority of Man United if they go for another striker this summer and it is said that they have made 'informal' contact with Leipzig.
The Red Devils are also admirers of Ollie Watkins, but are not willing to meet the £ 60 million of Aston Villa of the 29-year-old English star of England. A movement for Sesko now seemed to be preference and more likely option, whereby United also chose his youth and potentially over a proven quality such as Watkins.
United has been associated with Sesko in the past, but in 2019 they paid around £ 2 million for the then-16-year-old. There were subsequent approaches in 2022 and last year before the club Joshua Zirkzee signed. Sesko will now cost many times more after emerging as one of the most promising strikers in Europe and scored 39 goals in 87 performances for Leipzig since his arrival in 2023.
His current contract runs until 2029 and last year only signed a new deal. Allegedly it came with a concept that he could leave if another club in the £ 69 million region was offered to £ 78 million.
United's arrivals must be compensated by some expenses, whereby different players explain their desire to leave the club. Alejandro Garnacho, Jadon Sancho, Antony and Tyrell Malacia were omitted from the tour through the United States, with the so -called 'bomb team' training in the Carrington complex of the club. Marcus Rashford came on loan from Barcelona.
The transfer processes of United have been criticized on a large scale in recent seasons, but Amorim has said that Chief Executive Omar Berrada and sports director Jason Wilcox would not be benefited to get rid of that surplus the requirements.
“Some players have to find a new place to have more room in the team and others clearly show that they want a new challenge and want new teams,” Amorim said last week.
“We just allow these players to think and decide. If we reach a point where they should come to the team, they will become a member of the team because they are our players.
“I am sure that these people, Omar and Jason, and the club have a number (price) for these players. If they don't achieve that, they will have no doubt about it.