Benjamin Sesko to Arsenal: RB Leipzig formally approached over signing of Slovenia ahead | Soccer Information
Sky Germany are reporting Arsenal have formally approached RB Leipzig over the signing of striker Benjamin Sesko.
Sky Sports activities Information has been instructed Arsenal have been exploring the situations of a possible deal.
It is understood Arsenal are doing their due diligence on a variety of strikers together with Sporting’s Viktor Gyokeres.
No formal bids have been put in but.
Arsenal have a long-term curiosity in Sesko. Sky Sports activities Information reported in January that the membership had been severely contemplating a transfer – however his agent dominated it out attributable to a gentleman’s settlement with Leipzig to remain at the very least till this summer time.
Sesko celebrates a purpose together with his customary leap
The Gunners additionally needed Sesko final summer time too, just for him to increase his contract with the German membership till 2029. RB Leipzig at the moment are keen to let him depart after failing to qualify for the Champions League.
Sesko scored 21 targets and has six assists in all competitions final season, together with 4 within the Champions League.
‘Sesko destined for greatness’
Sky Sports activities’ Adam Bate:
Slovenia have had top-class soccer gamers earlier than. Samir Handanovic and Jan Oblak come to thoughts. “However they had been each goalkeepers,” Matej Orazem tells Sky Sports activities. “Goalkeepers will be stars however it’s a utterly completely different factor to have a striker.”
Benjamin Sesko is that striker. The 21-year-old RB Leipzig participant has been attracting curiosity from the continent’s greatest golf equipment since he was in his mid-teens. “I feel that he’s destined for greatness,” provides Orazem.
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The Soccer Present compares the type of Viktor Gyokeres and Sesko and analyse who could be extra suited with a transfer to Arsenal
Orazem is the sporting director at NK Domzale, the membership in Slovenia that took Sesko into their academy on the age of 15. The earliest recollections of him had been the whispers a few boy dwelling close by who had scored 50 targets in a single season towards a lot older gamers.
“We had been fairly fast after that. By the point that the media hypothesis started and larger golf equipment observed him, we already had an settlement. For anybody who went to see him, it was fairly apparent. He was just about a slam dunk at a really younger age.”
Bodily, Sesko stands out. He’s now 6ft 5in and was not a lot shorter then. There are tales about him kicking basketballs from out of the ring. With a prime pace of 35.47 kilometres per hour, he’s additionally one of many quickest gamers within the Bundesliga. A real athlete.
“The physicality was the defining issue. He was superb. With some younger abilities, you need them to play with the older guys but when they don’t seem to be bodily prepared then you’re a little extra cautious. With Beny, there was little doubt due to his bodily presence.”
Sesko’s skillset is uncommon. He instinctively desires to run at defences from deep together with his nice pace however he’s additionally a participant who has the bodily functionality of a goal man.
“It isn’t simply the physicality, it’s the technical side.” It makes for an irresistible mixture for the highest golf equipment and helps to clarify why Sesko is being strongly linked with Arsenal.