Sesko says no, the world keeps on turning

Morning all.

The main story to kick us off today is that Benjamin Sesko has decided to stay at Disgustingly Sweet Energy Drink Leipzig, with the intention to sign a new deal which will obviously include different parameters for his departure. His current release clause would then be invalid.

From the player’s side, you can understand this pretty well. He’s still only 21, his chances of playing week in, week out are much greater there than if he moved to Arsenal or somewhere else in the Premier League, and he has plenty of time to develop and make a move at some point in the future. Not to mention the fact he’ll probably have earned himself a nice pay-rise from his current club to show how much they want to keep him and to fend off interest from elsewhere.

It’s all worked out pretty nicely for him, and I have to admit, there has been so much said about his potential move to Arsenal that I did wonder if far more of this was coming from the player’s side than the club’s. That’s not to say we weren’t interested, or wouldn’t have been open to doing the deal, but in a summer when there’s so little information about who we want to sign, Sesko was very much an outlier in that sense. The fact he set this pre-Euros deadline to sort out his future was also a bit of a hint of his intention/openness to stay put, and fair play, he has got what he wanted.

If there’s disappointment from our side of things, it’s because – on a very basic level – it would have been the first deal of the summer, and everyone loves a transfer. The raw ingredients are there with him, he certainly has potential, but he always felt like more of an investment in the future than a player to come in and immediately raise the level, so on that basis, I’m not that bothered at this point. If we’re missing something, it’s what he might have become, not necessarily what he is now.

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Publish date : 2024-06-12 06:38:23

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