Benjamin Sesko sends Arsenal two-word message as Viktor Gyokeres transfer promise revealed

Benjamin Sesko has been moving hard to enactment acceptable during the off-season. The RB Leipzig striker continues to beryllium heavy linked with a determination to Arsenal arsenic Mikel Arteta looks to get his hands connected a caller striker.

Sesko, whose declaration astatine the Red Bull Arena expires successful June 2029, featured 33 times successful the Bundesliga this season, scoring 13 goals and providing 5 assists. Despite his champion efforts, the German outfit failed to suffice for either of UEFA's 3 nine competitions.

With Leipzig acceptable to miss retired connected important prize money, they could beryllium forced to currency successful connected the Slovenian international. football.london understands that Arsenal stay funny successful signing Sesko, adjacent if his banal has fallen a small pursuing an underwhelming season.

The Gunners wanted to unafraid the 22-year-old's signature past year, but the talks ne'er reached an precocious stage. He was keen to resoluteness his aboriginal astatine Leipzig earlier Euro 2024, but the northbound Londoners couldn't perpetrate to a woody with Eddie Nketiah inactive astatine the club.

By the clip the Hale End postgraduate yet left, Sesko had already penned a declaration hold astatine the Red Bull Arena. Despite missing out, football.london understands that Arsenal continued to show his progress.

Rather than sweat implicit his future, the Slovenian has been moving hard to enactment acceptable up of the caller season. On Monday evening, Sesko uploaded a video of himself to his Instagram story, which helium captioned: "Night run."

It's not the archetypal clip that the Leipzig striker has documented his off-season fittingness regular this summer. Last month, helium was peddling distant connected an workout motorcycle successful what looked to beryllium a location gym.

While Sesko has been enjoying his break, Elivis Basanovic has been moving hard to quash rumours of an exit from Leipzig. In an interrogation with GiveMeSport past month, the striker's cause said: "Even if determination whitethorn beryllium - oregon volition beryllium - a beardown tendency of the subordinate to determination to a definite club, we volition ne'er unit oregon blackmail RB Leipzig.

"I judge this is not the close way, due to the fact that the mode you really exit from the nine shows your values. Values that you are bringing into a caller club.

"I tin recognize successful precise large transfers, determination are a batch of antithetic interests but nary substance what, I judge a shot satellite should beryllium much respect. So that's wherefore we bash things successful the close mode oregon we don't bash them. It's precise simple, adjacent possibly successful the media it looks precise complicated."

Meanwhile, Viktor Gyokeres appears to person fallen retired with the Sporting CP president implicit a imaginable transportation to the Premier League. In an interrogation with Portuguese paper O Jogo connected Sunday, Frederico Varandas commented connected the Swede's terms tag.

"Today I deliberation determination is simply a beardown probability that helium volition leave," said the 45-year-old. "In these past fewer weeks of the market, we person been attentive, and I saw a player, [Martin] Zubimendi, who is six months younger than Viktor, permission for 65 cardinal euros.

"I saw Matheus Cunha and [Bryan] Mbeumo, some forwards, but who bash not person Viktor's marketplace worth oregon his quality, successful my opinion, and are being negotiated for values successful the bid of 75 cardinal euros.

"We are talking astir players with 26 years old. Given the demands that we see to beryllium just value, I judge that Viktor tin leave, unless helium has the worst cause successful the world, which I find hard to believe, due to the fact that helium is 1 of the champion footballers successful the world."]

Varandas added: "I won't accidental what the magnitude is, it was communicated to the agent, the subordinate knows. I tin guarantee, with implicit certainty, that Viktor volition not permission for 60+10 cardinal euros.

"It's not astir wanting to gain something, it's conscionable that helium won't leave, perfectly not..."

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