By the end of this week, Benjamin Šeško will know whether he is set to become an Arsenal player. With the transfer window back open, Gooners are expecting the club to finalise key deals ahead of pre-season.
While agreements for Kepa Arrizabalaga and Martín Zubimendi are expected to be completed, the decision on which striker Arsenal will sign should also become clear this week, according to sports journalist Rudy Galetti.
Striker chase timeframe now clear
Galetti’s latest update on Benjamin Šeško suggests that a decisive moment in Arsenal’s pursuit of his signature will be settled in the coming days. He reports that Arsenal are working towards a transfer resolution with RB Leipzig regarding the striker.
However, if both clubs fail to reach an understanding, the North London side are expected to turn their attention to alternative options.
As quoted by Rudy Galetti:
“Key week for Arsenal’s striker hunt, Šeško remains the priority, but if talks with RB Leipzig do not advance in the short term, Arsenal are ready to switch to other targets.
The English club is working on multiple fronts and is already in contact with several strikers, including Viktor Gyökeres.”
Arsenal avoiding a prolonged transfer saga
Although walking away from their priority target would frustrate Arsenal, it would be a necessary and bold decision that would prevent an unnecessary transfer saga.
The days of chasing a target, failing to land them, and resorting to a panic buy on deadline day should be long gone.
While Šeško would undoubtedly bolster Arsenal’s attacking options, the club’s immediate focus is simply securing a striker with a proven ability to find the net consistently.
Viktor Gyökeres and Ollie Watkins fit that mould.
So it makes perfect sense that if Leipzig complicate negotiations, Arsenal may have no choice but to look elsewhere for their new centre-forward.
That said, securing a top striker before pre-season would be a smart move, allowing him to settle in and hit the ground running when the new campaign begins.
Let’s hope we receive some positive news this week then?
Daniel O
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Buying Sesko would be a big mistake He is not ready to be a main striker in a team challenging for honours I’m afraid if Arteta and Arsenal follow this path it may be one that comes back to haunt them
Am an Arsenal true fan, please sign the striker, Sesko, if not him then get us Dusan Vlahovic from Juventus
Seems like there’s about 3 odd different Sesko stories every day…
Blame Arsenal
But Arsenal as a club have never come out and said anything about Sesko. We can’t be blaming the club for gossip / rumours that the media and fans keep pushing.
Lets blame the media because it’s them that keep pushing / recycling these rumours and gossip click-bait.
I have not heard the Kroenke’s, Arteta or Barta announcing any Sesko or Gyökeres rumours..
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No if Arsenal signed players people would comment on that
The club rarely if ever talks about targets. Which is as it should be. But it’s fun to speculate!
Yet if we now sign one of them it’s not click bait is it ?
It’s all click bait… until it isn’t 🙂
I support Arsenal taking their time to arrive at an optimum decision all things considered. Player acquisition decisions are not just based on players ‘perceived capabilities, financial implications are also very critical.
I desperately want Arsenal to sign a top striker, but I wouldn’t have some cash-trapped club in Portugal or Germany capitalising on Arsenal’s needs to make unreasonable demands.
Then watch another club sign them then.
Ken1945,
That’s all we seem to do is look, and watch as another club comes in and buys the said player right from under us.
While I know that it can take time with negotiating with said player and the selling club, other clubs seem so much more prepared than we do. How many times do you see other clubs conducting business a lot faster than us. Surely they have the same negotiating to do as us, but they seem to be far more efficient at it.👍🤷♂️
It certainly seems that way sometimes, but when the opportunity is there, the club can move fast too. We were very quick with Havertz for example – few even saw that coming, and it worked out well eventually – and occasionally we will fork out when there is hot competition for a player the club really wants, as with Rice for example.
Some clubs SEEM faster than us for sure – there’s a lot of talk about Liverpool this window for example, but looking at it closer, we signed 3 players last summer (plus Neto on loan as cover) and Pool signed 2 (one of which was a failure, Chiesa, and the other was immediately loaned back out). So far, Pool have signed 1 first team player (Frimpong, to replace TTA) and are in process of buying Wirtz. We’ve supposedly already signed 2 (Zubimendi, an upgrade on and replacement for Jorginho, who can’t be announced yet, and are in for Kepa, who also won’t be announced for a few weeks. Maybe it’s the announcements that we crave, but there are good reasons why they don’t happen publicly until the time is right. I’m 100% sure they are sometimes communicated to other prospects on the down-low.
So we’re not that much of an outlier really.
Even if they do agree a deal for Sesko or Gyokeres or someone else, it’s quite possible that won’t be announced right away. I’d be surprised if they announce a purchase this week (pleasantly, but still).