Man Utd summer signing Benjamin Sesko has been likened to \u201can academy player\u201d by Liverpool legend Robbie Fowler after his poor start to the season.<\/p>\n
The Red Devils spent around \u00a3200m on new attacking players over the summer transfer window with Matheus Cunha, Bryan Mbeumo and Sesko all joining the club.<\/p>\n
Only four Premier League sides scored fewer goals than Man Utd<\/strong><\/a> last term with Joshua Zirkzee and Rasmus Hojlund scoring just seven league goals between them.<\/p>\n Sesko has so far failed to hit the heights expected of him before moving to Old Trafford with the Slovenia international scoring two goals in 11 Premier League appearances and struggling to make an impact on matches.<\/p>\n On Monday, Newcastle and England legend Alan Shearer claimed that Man Utd had \u201cpaid too much\u201d for Sesko<\/strong><\/a> and admitted that he won\u2019t be expecting huge things from the striker.<\/p>\n And now another legendary Premier League striker, Fowler, has insisted that Sesko currently looks like \u201can academy player\u201d with Arsenal signing Viktor Gyokeres looking better suited to the league.<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Top ten Premier League players in World Cup qualifying features *the* Man Utd flop<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Fowler told\u00a0Adventure Gamers<\/a>: \u201cFor me I think the obvious one is Gyokeres. He\u2019s probably better suited to the Premier League and he understands what is needed in terms of speed, energy and commitment. Whereas Sesko has probably struggled a little at times.<\/p>\n \u201cHe looks a little bit, I hope this doesn\u2019t come across wrong, but he looks a bit of an academy player. I have no doubt he\u2019s a good player. No one\u2019s questioning his ability, but at the minute I think out of those two it\u2019s Gyokeres by far who looks better equipped.\u201d<\/p>\n Former Man Utd striker Danny Welbeck has been linked with a potential return<\/strong><\/a> to Old Trafford with the Brighton forward performing well this season.<\/p>\n But ex-Arsenal, Leicester and Scotland striker Paul Dickov reckons Welbeck would potentially be relegated to a bit-part player behind Sesko if he makes the move.<\/p>\n Dickov told Best Betting Bonuses: \u201cIt would be a big shout, actually, wouldn\u2019t it? Danny\u2019s been excellent. He seems to get better as he gets older. I think he\u2019s the highest scoring Englishman in the Premier League this season.<\/p>\n \u201cDanny\u2019s obviously a Manchester boy, came through the academy. But it\u2019ll be interesting to see what United do and for how long Sesko is actually out for.<\/p>\n MORE MAN UTD COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<\/strong> \u201cBecause they spent big on him. He was the one that they wanted in the summer. But with strikers, and I know that myself, we\u2019re very selfish.<\/p>\n \u201cAny striker joining United in the winter will know that Sesko will be coming back, and almost certainly play ahead of him. Are United going to go and spend big and get a centre-forward that\u2019s going to come in and then have two centre-forwards that have got a big price tag? Is one going to sit on the bench?<\/p>\n \u201cEspecially in the January market, it\u2019s really difficult to go out there and get the players that you want. Then I know with Danny Welbeck, if United come in, it\u2019s not even certain he will want to leave Brighton or if Brighton would let him leave.<\/p>\n \u201cAt the back of his mind, he\u2019s going to be thinking \u2018How many games am I going to play?\u2019 Because when Sesko comes back, he\u2019s probably going to be the main No. 9 that they\u2019ve got in their squad. So it\u2019s a really difficult one for him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man Utd summer signing Benjamin Sesko has been likened to \u201can academy player\u201d by Liverpool legend Robbie Fowler…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[5758,135933,94,225,98,12,101,37434,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-578515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-benjamin-sesko","9":"tag-danny-welbeck","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-home-page","12":"tag-manchester-united","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-premier-league","15":"tag-robbie-fowler","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115571353560693063","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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