Red Bull Salzburg forward Benjamin Sesko is the latest player to be linked with joining Erik ten Hag’s project at Manchester United.
United’s squad has been bolstered by the arrivals of Tyrell Malacia, Lisandro Martinez and Christian Eriksen, but it sounds like they’ve not done all their business yet.
Plying his trade in Austria, Sesko is a name that will be unfamiliar to many. With all that in mind, here’s everything you need to know about the player United are reportedly keen on signing.
Who is he?
Born in May 2003 – 21 Questions by 50 Cent was No.1 in the charts, fact fans – in the Slovenian town of Radece, Sesko joined the youth set-up of his hometown club.
He went on to turn out in the academies of Rudar Trbovlje, Krsko and Domzale and really began catching the eye as a teenager.
During the 2017-18 campaign, when he was a 14-year-old turning out for Krsko’s Under-15 side, the young striker scored a mindblowing tally of 59 goals in 23 matches, regularly notching four and five-goal hauls, once managing seven in a 10-1 win over Rudar Velenje.
Sesko subsequently spent a year at Domzale, where he continued his prolific ascent at youth level, scoring 21 goals in 23 appearances.
All that happened while he was turning out in the youth ranks for the Slovenia national team, scoring for their Under-15s, Under-16s and Under-17s and getting noticed by Red Bull’s famous scouting network.
In the summer of 2019, he signed with Red Bull Salzburg, briefly overlapping with Erling Haaland – more on him later – but was immediately sent out on loan to second-tier side FC Liefering, who are the Red Bull group’s Austrian feeder club.
Benjamin Sesko scored four for Liefering earlier – this, his second, is the least facile of his finishes.
Just 17, it’s surely getting time for RB Salzburg (and the Slovenia U21 side) to move him up… pic.twitter.com/sm490Ug4zI
— Richard Wilson (@timomouse) April 27, 2021
It was at FC Liefering where Sesko got his first taste of senior football as a 16-year-old, sharing a dressing room with German prodigy Karim Adeyemi, also on loan from Salzburg.
In one of his first appearances for the club, he was sent off for serious foul play, just a minute after being introduced off the bench for Adeyemi in a 3-2 win over SV Horn. He scored his first senior goal on his return from suspension, but had to be patient with cameos off the bench – it was his only goal from 15 appearances that year.
Sesko scored…
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