Benjamin Šeško (playing for Man United)

[The Prophet]

1 minute ago, 1964 said:

I thought we'd offered them what they wanted?  If we haven't, fair enough

 

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

[Newcastle Fan]

Throw in 10% sell on fee, they will get 10m+ when Howe turns him into a goal machine.

[relámpago blanco]

2 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

 

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

That's just fine details. It'll be sorted

[TRon]

3 hours ago, KaKa said:

I followed the Arsenal and Sesko drama a little bit, earlier in the summer.

 

Something I took away from that is that Sesko and his agent have a great relationship with Leipzig.

 

Unless clubs that are interested pay what Leipzig wants, I got the impression that Sesko would just stay there and not kick up any kind of fuss whatsoever. 

 

Arsenal were trying everything to pay less for Sesko to no avail. Instead they got Gyokeres to make a real stink at Sporting and insist on Arsenal so that Arsenal could then negotiate the price/terms in their favour.

 

This is apparently the new "big club" dirt bag move. Get the player to say he only wants them, so they can then bully the selling club into accepting less.

 

I think Man United have tried the same stunt here and it may have backfired. Surely Sesko would have come out and insisted on them by now, if he favoured them and wanted to give them an advantage in negotiations? But I don't believe Sesko and his agent are at all willing to do that to Leipzig.

 

From the beginning of the week Romano has been saying that we are willing to pay both Sesko and Leipzig what they want, which is crucial for this deal to happen. On Friday night we hear from his homeland he has chosen us and then a bid the next day.

 

I'm thinking we make those final adjustments to the bid and this thing could be all wrapped up. Wouldn't be surprised at all if we already had agreement with Sesko and his agent in line with the Slovenian reports, and so they're just waiting for us to agree with Leipzig too, before they confirm everything officially.

 

Sesko and his agent are working closely with Leipzig on this whole thing. If either party isn't happy this deal is not going to happen. From the Man Utd side it seems they are not willing to pay what is being asked, similar to Arsenal, and so are trying to do the Gyokeres and Mbeumo thing and haggle the fee down. 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you are right, but then I don't really know why we've dragged this out so long if that's the case. It's not like taking our time worked with Trafford, Pedro or Ekitike. When cartel clubs are sniffing around, they somehow manage to find a way, and with Man U, as we saw with the Covid scam, the PL will always look favourably if they want to bend the rules a little bit. 

[KennyUtd]

Man U now in talks 🤦‍♂️. We're getting Højlund aren't we? 

[BeloEmre]

2 minutes ago, KennyUtd said:

Man U now in talks 🤦‍♂️. We're getting Højlund aren't we? 

They have been "in talks" for weeks now without doing anything tbh.

[Bunk Moreland]

 

[TRon]

2 hours ago, Rich said:

That would be fine with me if he’d performed for two years, we were prepared for it, and we were selling him for twice what we paid.

 

 

Was thinking this as well wrt the Sesko saga. With us being restricted to a second tier wage structure, we do have to get used to the idea of buying and selling players until we have managed to raise our income to cartel levels. 

[Hanshithispantz]

Any sell on fee should be like the Isak one (apparently) where they get a percentage of whatever we make above 70m. We shouldn't be giving them any more money if he flops 

 

 

Edited August 3, 2025 by Hanshithispantz

[The Prophet]

 

[soyt]

We all know how this ends

[Big Geordie]

if the Mancs will meet the asking price, he will go there IMO. 

[gjohnson]

19 minutes ago, toon25 said:

 

A. We have the funds.

 

B. We won't sell Isak (at all imo) before bringing someone in

Sense at last.

We dont have to sell, no matter how much Ornstein and Romano bitch on.

We have funds...just deep pockets and short arms

We need another striker even if Isak stays, 2 if he goes unless were planning on playing one of our half dozen keepers up front

Isak debacle is massively distracting from the issue that our defence is aging and getting slower by the day, with a utilty backup, one even older and the other becoming as fragile as Wilson. 

[McCormick]

1 minute ago, soyt said:

We all know how this ends

Yup. We keep Isak, then.

[Zero]

All talk no action

[Menace]

5 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

 

 

I don't understand how much talks need to be taking place? This has been going on for 2 weeks now ffs - this whole saga absolutely reeks

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Isn’t this contrary to previous tweets from other random blokes that suggested that we were just working out a few details? 
 

Felt like we were clearly more advanced than Man U. 

 

 

Edited August 3, 2025 by AyeDubbleYoo

[JT24]

If anything this place will be fun if Newcastle lose out on another transfer saga this summer. 
 

Have to win one eventually, right? Right??

[Shadow Puppets]

The Sky Germany guy seems to be the only one suggesting Man Utd will match our offer. Everyone else just seems to say they’re “trying”.

[Willow]

He's absolutely, without a fucking doubt, going to pick Man Utd.

[Whitley mag]

Fucking Ben Jacob’s since when did he even become a serious journalist.

 

Cant believe all these podcasts give him the time of day, blokes a fraud who was sacked from his job.

[Ghandis Flip-Flop]

As much cachet as Man Utd still have (Although given his age can he actually remember when they were good?) if he goes there over us if our financial packages re the same I’ll be bewildered. It should be as simple as our negotiating team saying "compare how things have gone for Isak to Hojlund"

[KaKa]

This is actually beginning to read like Man United are actually the ones being used to get us to make the changes Leipzig wants to the bid 

[KennyUtd]

3 minutes ago, JT24 said:

If anything this place will be fun if Newcastle lose out on another transfer saga this summer. 
 

Have to win one eventually, right? Right??

There's absolutely nowt fun about it like.

[Whitley mag]

Set Leipzig and his agent a deadline of Wednesday, or just walk the fuck away.

 

Strong stench of time wasting greedy cunts as Arsenal found out.