Arsenal won’t be signing Benjamin Sesko this summer.
The ‘incredible’ striker has decided against leaving RB Leipzig, and, as you can imagine, Arsenal are bitterly disappointed about this decision.
Indeed, speaking on Inside Arsenal, Charles Watts has been discussing Sesko’s decision this week, and he says that people within Arsenal are disappointed with this situation, claiming that the Gunners were in a strong position to get Sesko if he had decided to leave Leipzig.
Arsenal disappointed about not signing Sesko
Watts spoke about Sesko and how Arsenal are feeling about his decision.
“There is disappointment from an Arsenal point of view, they wanted Sesko, they focused their attention on him and they had put themselves in a position where certainly the feeling was that if he was going to leave Leipzig, Arsenal would probably be the destination that he picked,” Watts said.
Sesko’s decision is understandable
As painful as it is for Arsenal to not be signing a player like Sesko, you can understand the striker’s decision.
Indeed, after one good half-season, a move may actually hamper Sesko’s development at this point.
Let’s not forget, this young man is just 21 years old, he’s still at that stage where he needs to be playing regular football in order to develop.
Interestingly, he may not have had that at Arsenal as, according to Dean Jones, the Gunners told Sesko that Kai Havertz would be starting this season.
“I still think that Kai Havertz starts the season as the number nine and as far as I understand Zirkzee has been made aware of that and Sesko had been made aware of that as well. If you’re a forward and that’s where you’re heading you’d want some guarantee of gametime, and Arsenal aren’t necessarily giving that to a number nine type striker,” Jones said.
Arsenal would have been in pole position to sign Sesko if he’d gone, but it’s easy to understand why the attacker decided to spend one more year as the main man at Leipzig rather than playing second-fiddle at Arsenal.