Arsenal 'in talks' with Bundesliga side over £55m star as 'gentleman's agreement' eases January transfer
Arsenal are reportedly ‘in talks’ via RB Leipzig over a January relocation for Benjamin Sesko as the Gunners filter to confiscate merit of the demonstrator’s ‘gent’s contract’.
Employer Mikel Arteta needs to add bathing supports to his team this month as Gabriel Jesus accepted up via Bukayo Saka on the sidelines after tearing his ACL against Manchester Joined.
Asked by Rio Ferdinand on TNT Sporting duties if they would understandably filter to indication a demonstrator, Arteta reacted: “Of training course, for sure. Because we squandered 2 players, beefy players, Bukayo [Saka], who can be out for up to 3 months, that’s a long time, and Gabby, who is filching part in be out for a long, long, long time.”
A record claims the Gunners are unanimously seated to hijack Joined’s relocation for Viktor Gyokeres, while Mikel Arteta is also guessed to be a beefy admirer of Brentford’s Yoane Wissa.
On Tuesday, The Telegraph reported that Arsenal are keen to ‘explore a bargain in the summertime season’ for ‘incurable target’ Sesko, via a January bargain ‘not unobtainable’ although it would understandably likely be ‘wildly pricey’.
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Arsenal sought Sesko last summertime season but the demonstrator decided to stick approximately at Leipzig as he was ‘loath’ to symbol up via Arsenal due to priorities he would understandably be second-replacement to Kai Havertz.
The Sporting duties’s David Ornstein was a digit less optimistic around the capacity of Sesko coming in at the Emirates in the January window, once he talked to NBC on Wednesday.
“We hear tags favor Dusan Vlahovic of Juventus, preliminary queries inform me that that one is not likely,” asserted Ornstein.
“Benjamin Sesko, another incurable target, he’s not likely to relocation in the January transmit window, never ever say never ever, but that’s added likely a summertime season separation if he fallen abandons RB Leipzig.”
But presently Joined Stand journalist Sam C claims the Gunners are ‘in talks’ via the German side over the capacity finalizing of Sesko.
‘Told Arsenal yearn a auto loan via acquire replacement, Leipzig yearn silver silver money upfront or an dedication,’ he wrote on X.
‘Realise Arteta has talked via Sesko on added than one party.’
The Slovenian is under contract at Leipzig until the summertime season of 2029 but once he accepted that bargain in 2024 an contract was plunked in territory permitting him to take off ‘for the right project’, via his previous conserve ailment seated at £55m.
The Sporting duties record claims there is a “gents’s contract between Sesko and Leipzig, likely in territory of a legal conserve ailment, that will understandably make it possible for him to take off for the right project. This figure will understandably be mentioned before an admissible array is reached.”
