The Prophet

Keith has been on the rampage of late.

He's primarily on TalkSport who have been running with that via Alex Crook. I'm not doubting he might prefer Man United and I still think he ends up there, but there's no suggestion he's "holding out for them" yet.

Most have reported he's open to both clubs and hadn't made a decision.

Dubs, Longstaff and Wilson all leaving does feel like the end of an era.

We've thrown a bid in and Leipzig have asked us to make the terms more favourable. He might have a preference for Man United, but if that's what he's waiting for his agent would have no doubt briefed the press. I'd wager he's open to both moves. That said, I do think he ends up at Man United, I can see us walking away if there are no developments by midweek.

Interesting to see how this plays out if Sesko ends up at Man United.

Iliman Ndiaye is a lovely player. Wonder how much Everton would want for him.

To play for PIF United?

Can't find anything on Kicker by the way, not convinced it's an actual story.

So-so.

He's got it from Kicker.

Man United are clearly hoping the player publicly picks them publicly so they can chuck a couple of low ball offers at Leipzig.

It could well have been bollocks. The club and Sesko's agent seem to have the same definition of the word "imminent" at least.

Seems like a sensible read of the situation.

Is that a threat?

I'd prefer Ramos to Sesko tbh.

Downie corroborated it, I guess both things can be true. Weirdly I'm not fussed which way this one goes, granted it complicates the Isak situation.

Happy with the fee, but not with the structure of the deal allegedly.

Could do with making progress on the striker front this week. Still a fair bit to do elsewhere.

I hope we've been around the houses trying to get clubs across Europe interested with a bit of a discount.

My reading of the situation is that Leipzig and Sesko's agent are trying to initiate a bidding war to extract as much dollar as possible from the deal. The player has communicated that he'd be happy to join either club (granted he may have a preference), so we've gone early with a big fee hoping that Man United need to sell or they simply won't put their money where their mouth is.