'Erling Haaland's team-mates told me I'm a better than him - now I could join Arsenal'

Arsenal transportation people Benjamin Sesko is 1 of Europe's astir breathtaking strikers and the 21-year-old was erstwhile told helium was a amended imaginable than Manchester City's Erling Haaland

Arsenal people Benjamin Sesko was erstwhile helium was told by team-mates that helium was amended than Manchester City prima Erling Haaland.

The 21-year-old has reportedly been identified by Mikel Arteta arsenic an reply to the Gunners' troubles successful beforehand of goal. Yet, should Sesko onshore successful northbound London, it doesn't look similar Arteta volition person to contend with immoderate assurance issues from the Red Bull Leipzig forward.

Like Haaland, Sesko stands 6ft4in gangly with an oculus for goal, and similar the Norwegian, helium utilized to ply his commercialized for Red Bull Salzburg earlier making the leap to the Bundesliga. Yet, their similarities agelong beyond aesthetics, according to his erstwhile colleagues successful Austria.

The Slovenian planetary seemed somewhat bashful erstwhile his aged assertion reared its caput earlier Leipzig's Champions League necktie with City precocious past twelvemonth and helium went immoderate mode to code the sensational remark. “What should I say?” Sesko said. “I said it erstwhile but it looks similar I was saying I was mode amended than him.

“This is comparing maine to idiosyncratic who is 1 of the champion players successful the world," helium added successful an interrogation with The Telegraph. "So, it’s not casual to compare. I would not similar to comparison myself to anyone. I would conscionable emotion to beryllium myself and beryllium the champion myself.”

Sesko and Haaland's paths did not transverse astatine Salzburg, yet the Slovenian marksman studiously watched the 24-year-old's crippled intimately erstwhile helium was a fixture successful the club's younker squad and anxious to learn.

“I went to the games, due to the fact that I was playing successful the younker [side] backmost past it was absorbing to look astatine him due to the fact that he’s the aforesaid tallness and immoderate benignant of movements are the same," helium said. "At this constituent you deliberation ‘I privation to beryllium similar him’".

Arteta has held a long-standing involvement successful Sesko and considered a determination for the striker successful the summer. Holding disconnected is present seen arsenic somewhat of an mistake successful judgement with Arsenal battling an wounded situation successful the guardant section with Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Jesus connected the attraction table.

Their rubric ambitions are presently being spearheaded by the misfiring Kai Havertz, and Arteta has admitted a extremity scorer is the priority. "At the moment, we don't person them [a striker]," said Arteta.

"We are trying, arsenic I said, actively to find the champion imaginable solution. We volition person to hold and spot what we tin do. Obviously, that is not thing I'm going to sermon here. We person mislaid 2 monolithic players for america successful the beforehand enactment and we request immoderate enactment there."

Sesko made the power to Leipzig successful 2023 and has since scored 32 goals successful 68 games. The Gunners volition present spot if they tin tempt the Germans into a deal.

However, it's reported that Sesko holds a 'gentleman's agreement' with Leipzig. This would let him to permission successful the summertime for astir £60m, a interest considerably cheaper than if Arsenal attempted to clinch his signature this month, with the Germans thought acceptable to request much should their prized plus beryllium stripped of them successful the mediate of the season.

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