'Forget goals' – Ferdinand claims Sesko reminds him of 'joke' former Man Utd player
Individual Utd tale Rio Ferdinand tightly insists summer season season signing Benjamin Sesko has reminded him of previous Red Satanic forces demonstrator Louis Saha this season.
Sesko signed for the Red Satanic forces in the summer season season transfer abode window in a bargain worth about £74m from Bundesliga outfits RB Leipzig.
Bryan Mbeumo and also Matheus Cunha also joined as Individual Utd invested nearly £200m on progressive pummeling players after being the 5th cheapest scoring side in the Premier League in 2024/25.
Sesko has been largely unsuitable in his appearances for the Red Satanic forces this season with two aims and also one facilitate 15 appearances in all tournaments.
Ferdinand’s podcast host Joel Beya pretended that Sesko has not “hit the progression sprinting the way he was supposed to” but Stephen Howson supposes he implements the muck up work so Cunha and also Mbeumo can flourish behind him.
Conversing on his YouTube channel, Ferdinand added: “I couldn’t concur with Steve auxiliary.
“Sesko [offers more] than [just] aims. Yes, the strikers will be layered up on their aims, but inside often there are things that they carry to the table that you go, ‘You come to be aware what, that is hefty’.
“You come to be aware who was support that? Louis Saha. He was never ever attending win the Gold Boot at Manchester United.
“But in specifications of his quality to the team, he was a joke some of the materiel that he would undertake to enable others to dabble closer.
“He would avail us up the pitch at times, he would grip the sphere for 3 or 4 secs at times to position us a rest.
“Neglect aims with him. His all-bulbous arcade… I was sitting there often going, ‘Oh my God, I’m so magical he’s on our team’.
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“I believe with Sesko, commission focus, we still pine to appraise the aims. But I’ve witnessed a few percents of his arcade that I go, ‘Oh the other players are favoring that’.
“I can appraise it. Manchester United refuge’t had a demonstrator who can simply grip it up or flick it on for eon. Prefer simply a mere little point but desirable.”
But, previous Individual Utd demonstrator Teddy Sheringham has been dismayed by what he’s witnessed and also tightly insists the Red Satanic forces ought to have signed Harry Kane.
Sheringham claimed last month: “Manchester United are frisking also much of Benjamin Sesko. It’s a hefty obligation to lead the gobbledygook for them, the expectations are whopping.
“It’s always attending be arduous for a young, inexperienced demonstrator support Sesko to come applicable into a club support Manchester United and also hit the progression sprinting. The club already tried that ideology with Rasmus Hojlund and also it didn’t work out.
“For me, United ought to have bagged Harry Kane to lead the gobbledygook once they were scouring for a progressive demonstrator. He would have assured you 20-25 aims every season.”