{"id":107869,"date":"2025-07-31T15:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/107869\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T15:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:30:14","slug":"romano-reveals-huge-sesko-swap-boost-as-rb-leipzig-dream-of-damned-red-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/107869\/","title":{"rendered":"Romano reveals huge Sesko swap boost as RB Leipzig &#8216;dream&#8217; of &#8216;damned&#8217; Red Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fabrizio Romano has offered Manchester United a huge boost in their bid to sign Benjamin Sesko as he claims RB Leipzig \u201cdream\u201d of a swap deal for a Red Devils star INEOS want out of the club.<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle have made the early running in the race to sign Sesko but\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-open-formal-talks-sesko-feeling-inside-newcastle-opt-old-trafford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man Utd have since made their move to \u2018open formal talks\u2019 in order to get a deal done<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Transfer expert Ben Jacobs wrote on X:\u00a0\u2018#MUFC open formal talks for Benjamin Sesko after sending a secret delegation to Germany. Christopher Vivell driving. Ruben Amorim put forward Ollie Watkins. #NUFC remain in the race. Both hoping price drops to \u20ac70m.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Before The Athletic\u2019s David Ornstein revealed that Man Utd are now \u2018prioritising a move\u2019 for Sesko with the journalist adding that \u2018Alexander Isak wanting to leave St James\u2019 Park\u2019 has \u2018accelerated the actions\u2019 of the Red Devils to get a deal done.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-open-formal-talks-sesko-feeling-inside-newcastle-opt-old-trafford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A report on Wednesday<\/a><\/strong> claimed that \u2018the feeling inside Newcastle is that Sesko is likely to go to Manchester United\u2019 and\u00a0<strong><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/benjamin-sesko-man-utd-transfer-32168121\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester Evening News claimed on Thursday that the Slovenian has \u2018made his final transfer decision\u2019<\/a><\/strong> to join the Red Devils over the Magpies.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen whether United can stump up the cash to meet Leipzig\u2019s \u00a365m asking price, but Romano claims a swap deal could be on the cards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMan Utd are showing Leipzig the opportunity to include a player into the deal for Sesko,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LTkF2c5aFA0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Romano said on his YouTube channel<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen we have to see if the player is open to going to Leipzig because they have no European football [next season] for the first time in many years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to be easy to include a player in this deal, but it is showing how Man Utd are really trying to do business for Sesko.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Romano added: \u201cOne of the names, a dream target for RB Leipzig, could be Rasmus Hojlund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut let me say at the moment from the player side I have always told you [Hojlund] would love to stay at Manchester United. He is not entertaining any negotiations with other clubs at this stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut this is showing how Man Utd and Leipzig are talking about eventual solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE ON MAN UTD ON F365<\/strong><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-xabi-alonso-wants-red-devils-star-real-madrid-open-door-142m-swoop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Xabi Alonso \u2018wants\u2019 Man Utd star as Real Madrid \u2018open door\u2019 to shock \u00a3142m PL double swoop<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-sesko-makes-final-transfer-decision-as-romano-reveals-scared-newcastle-reality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Man Utd: Sesko \u2018makes final transfer decision\u2019 as Romano reveals \u2018scared\u2019 Newcastle reality<\/strong><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/wayne-rooney-work-ethic-questioned-tom-brady-lazy-entitled-assessment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0Wayne Rooney \u2018work ethic\u2019 questioned in Tom Brady \u2018lazy and entitled\u2019 assessment<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And Leipzig\u2019s interest in Hojlund will be a huge boost to the United bosses, who have \u2018damned\u2019 Hojlund as \u2018part of the old regime\u2019 and want him out of the club despite his desire to remain at Old Trafford, according to the Manchester Evening News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHojlund would likely have to make way if Sesko comes in,\u201d <strong><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/ramus-hojlund-card-marked-man-utd-board-want-rid-part-old-regime-striker\" target=\"_blank\">says reporter\u00a0Samuel Luckhurst<\/a><\/strong>. \u201cThere is an argument that United should actually keep Hojlund and seek a buyer for Joshua Zirkzee, more affordable, not an out-and-out striker and with a marginally higher stock after a respectable calendar year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the noises from the United hierarchy about Hojlund are so damning that his card is marked. He is also part of the old regime, signed in dubious circumstances when he switched to the same agent as Erik ten Hag on the eve of his \u00a372 million transfer in July 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fabrizio Romano has offered Manchester United a huge boost in their bid to sign Benjamin Sesko as he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":107870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[38620,204,3782,50,221,62,9656,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-107869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-benjamin-sesko","9":"tag-front-page","10":"tag-manchester-united","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-soccer","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uncategorized","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114948566310030238","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}