Man Utd icon Ferdinand reveals huge 'worry' with £69m striker; alternative preferred for one reason
Manchester United tale Rio Ferdinand owns announced that he would support his former bar to icon out of Ollie Watkins and also Benjamin Sesko.
Owning invested around £130m on Bryan Mbeumo, Matheus Cunha and also Diego Leon this summertime season, it owns been reported that Man Utd‘s next off top priority is to icon a striker after Rasmus Hojlund and also Joshua Zirkzee underperformed last season.
Donning United combating to offload their unpopular talents, their help are limited and also they have currently missed out on out on several targets, compeling Liam Delap and also Viktor Gyokeres.
This owns made the Red Satanic forces rotate to replacements and also it owns surfaced that Watkins and also Sesko are currently their ‘desired’ striker targets.
22-year-old Sesko owns a much longer shelf vigor than 29-year-old Watkins, but he is in a analogous way more pricey as the RB Leipzig celeb is reportedly valued at 80 million euros (£69m). The Suite celeb, at unchanged time, can conceivably rate anything between £45-60m.
Ferdinand is in favour of Man Utd wrapping up Watkins over Sesko as he is more of a “agree”, while he owns a “misgiving” around the younger onward.
“If you avail Watkins, you’ve got made sure 15-20 objectives actually and also after that you’ve got that via Cunha and also you’ve got that via Mbeumo,” Ferdinand said on his YouTube network.
“Not faultlessly made sure, but you’ve got double numbers all the way upward front.
“Bear in subconscious, we were 16th in specification of objectives racked upward last season and also these bunch are receiving you minimum 40 objectives between them.”
Pertaining to his “misgiving” around Sesko, Ferdinand returned: “The single argument is that Rasmus came in and also had inexperience around him in specification of [Alejandro] Garnacho one side and also Amad [Diallo] the various other, for instance, most of the time.
“If Sesko comes in, he’s got 2 players that have messed around Premier League, racked upward objectives in the Premier League and also backed upward by Bruno [Fernandes] so I believe it’s a dissimilar dazzling that he comes apt into.
“Yet the obscurity misgivings me a minuscule minuscule fragment. Can he fluctuation to this league?”
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Ferdinand consisted of: “I longed a striker via ordeal so he wouldn’t be my initially-substitute, plainly, also now.
“Yet if Manchester United buy him and also Newcastle go and also avail a number nine, executes that merciless [Alexander] Isak stays at Newcastle and also Liverpool wear’t avail Isak?
“Liverpool’s send window owns been altogether nothing brief of gorgeous so much.”
