As clubs are heading into the January winter transfer window, top European clubs who are seeking to mount a title winning performance in the crunchy moments as it’s beckoning in the second half of the 2024/25 campaign have enlisted players whom they deem as an upgrade as compared to their available squad.
That not withstanding, the technical bench of clubs have also assessed the various players manning the various positions on the field of play who have not been able to excel or meet deliver their duties to the satisfaction of the manager hence, not producing the needed results the club demands.
In the first-half of this current season, clubs like Arsenal FC would have been on top of the English premier league if they had a reliable center-forward who is a true out-and-out striker and had the skill-set of burying the chances the numerous chances the team creates in those games they dropped valuable points.
Here comes German Bundesliga club, Red Bull Leipzig, who are fortunate to have a much experienced and a natural center-forward, Benjamin Sesko who has recorded eight goal contributions in fifteen league appearances for his side this season. In details, he has six goals and two assist.
The 21-year-old Slovenian goal poacher’s ability to hold up play and link up play with his team mate is exceptional, has decent pace and is endowed with eyes for goals plus his work rate is also tremendous.
Benjamin Sesko is certainly in possession of the necessary talent as a natural center-forward plus the experience to get the ball rolling should any of the English premier league succeed in securing his services.
Now, three English top-flight clubs are in a mad-rush for RB Leipzig’s striker who is seen as one potential for the present and the future as he is now inching closure to his peak in his professional football career. Let’s jump into the transfer offers Benjamin Sesko has attracted:
Arsenal FC are set to launch a bid for RB Leipzig’s striker:
It’s obvious Arsenal’s quest to stage a title contending performance might not materialize should they play the entire 2024/25 season without any reliable center-forward in the team as things stand. Since the inception of the new season, Arsenal‘s performance has not depicted a team who’s aim is to win the Premier League as they drop points when it matters the most.
Further, the only available center-forward in the Arsenal set-up is the Brazilian international, Gabriel Jesus who is not reliable as he is very injury prone and his back-up has been the German attacking-midfielder, Kai Havertz who is also played as false-nine and has shown on several occasions in games that, he can’t propel the team into achieving it targets.
Arsenal’s failure not to clutch the services of striker in the last summer as they attempted securing the signature of Sesko and yet, the player decided to tie himself down to RB Leipzig as the player believed he wasn’t set to begin a new chapter in the English premier league.
However, Arsenal might just be lucky in their second bid to bring in Benjamin Sesko to come breathe in more fresh air into the team’s center-forward role.
Benjamin Sesko has been penned in Manchester United’s transfer list:
Manchester United has a hand-full of players who are cast in the mode of the center-forward role; players like Joshua Zirkzee who joined the club this year during the summer transfer window from Bologna including Rasmus Hojlund, who also joined the club last season from Atalanta have both not been super exceptional but have shown glimpses of what they bring to the table when called upon.
Further, Joshua Zirkzee and Rasmus Hojlund this season have a combine five goals and one assist in the English premier league which is very unacceptable as an output from the two natural finishers of a club like Manchester United.
Certainly, the newly appointed head coach of Manchester United, Ruben Amorim is opting for the services of Benjamin Sesko, who has eight goal contributions this season with RB Leipzig.
Chelsea FC have joined the race to secure the services of Benjamin Sesko:
The second best placed team in the English premier league, Chelsea have also expressed their interest to bring in Benjamin Sesko to Stamford Bridge in January.
Sesko is view by the club manager, Enzo Maresca as a top-class striker who can bring forth more challenge to the only current striker, Nicholas Jackson who is a phenomenal form of his life.
The Senegalese 23-year-old striker has netted nine goals and made three assists in sixteen league matches this. Meanwhile, the technical team are interested in bringing in Sesko to serve as the back-up for Jackson.