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Manchester United’s new striker signing Benjamin Sesko has acquired some excessive reward from a former coach.
Difficult begin
Sesko arrived on the membership final month however has to this point been outshone by his fellow attacking summer season arrivals, Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo.
The large striker has not managed to attain a aim in any of the 4 matches he has performed for the membership.
Nonetheless, it should be stated that he has solely been used as a second half substitute in all three league matches to this point.
He performed all the recreation of the Carabao Cup defeat to Grimsby City and virtually grabbed a last-gasp winner earlier than his facet would go on to lose the penalty shootout.
Excessive reward
Regardless of his gradual begin as a Purple Satan, Sesko is without doubt one of the most extremely rated younger strikers in European soccer owing to his mixture of top, physicality, contact and ending prowess.
In feedback carried by SI, former Purple Bull Salzburg coach René Aufhauser has predicted that Benjamin Šeško has the “potential” to match Manchester Metropolis striker Erling Haaland.
Sesko performed for Salzburg from 2019-2023 earlier than shifting to Leipzig.
Aufhaser commented that, “Benji, I feel in the intervening time, perhaps he’s a 9, 9 and a half out of 10. And he has additionally potential. He’ll develop within the subsequent one and two years, I’m certain.”
He elaborated, “Erling (Haaland) reached his mark after his switch from [Borussia] Dortmund to Man Metropolis and we’ll see. I’m fairly certain Benji will attain this mark after one or two years. However after all, Erling is the highest. He has 10 out of 10 from me.”
Sesko after all is barely 22-years-old and adapting to a brand new league, so will nonetheless have a lot time to show himself in a purple shirt.
The Slovenia worldwide will hope he has that probability when United go up in opposition to Haaland and Metropolis within the Manchester derby this weekend on Sunday 16:30 BST.
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