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Newcastle concern Benjamin Sesko is holding out for a transfer to Manchester United after seeing their club-record £70million supply rejected, talkSPORT understands.
The Magpies submitted a suggestion of €75million (£65m) plus €5m (£4.3m) in add-ons.
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However Leipzig have turned down the bid as they maintain out for at the very least an preliminary £70m payment – and a future sell-on clause.
It is the identical worth that Leipzig quoted Arsenal earlier within the window.
Arsenal finally turned their consideration to signing Viktor Gyokeres as a substitute after sporting director Andrea Berta was unable to drive the worth down.
Manchester United are additionally in talks over a transfer for Sesko after sending a delegation to Germany earlier this week.
A choice over his future seems imminent, after he was neglected of Leipzig’s squad for his or her pleasant defeat in opposition to Atalanta on Saturday.
RB Leipzig consider they’ll drag Newcastle and United right into a bidding battle for his or her star striker.
As reported earlier on Saturday by talkSPORT, United had been keen to supply Rasmus Hojlund as a sweetener to land Sesko, however the Dane doesn’t wish to make the transfer.
Sesko has already advised his Leipzig teammates he expects to depart this summer season.
Information of Newcastle’s bid for the Slovenian comes lower than 24 hours after the membership rejected Liverpool’s £110m supply for Alexander Isak.
And the character of that rebuttal has meant the Reds don’t have any imminent plans to comply with up with a second method this switch window – except Newcastle’s place adjustments.
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talkSPORT understands the Magpies wish to maintain their star ahead, or at the very least supply a substitute earlier than agreeing to promote him, with £150m considered the asking worth.
Isak, who has been coaching with former membership Actual Sociedad, has advised Newcastle he needs to depart this summer season.
The Swede additionally holds the honour of being Newcastle’s report signing, because the membership forked out £63m to safe his companies from Actual Sociedad in August 2022.
Ought to Newcastle land Sesko, it will be a big coup for the Magpies and a much-needed switch increase given they’ve whiffed on a number of targets this summer season.
Who’ve Newcastle missed out on this summer season?
The likes of Bryan Mbeumo, Joao Pedro, Hugo Ekitike, Dean Huijsen, James Trafford and Liam Delap had been all wished by Newcastle.
Nevertheless, Newcastle boss Eddie Howe was left to observe the sextuple transfer elsewhere.
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Mbeumo went to Manchester United, Delap and Pedro joined Chelsea, Ekitike obtained snapped up by Liverpool, Trafford returned to Manchester Metropolis and Huijsen secured a transfer to Spanish giants Actual Madrid.
Howe did handle to safe one in every of his targets up to now within the type of electrical winger Anthony Elanga, who arrived from Nottingham Forest in a £55m deal.
However the 47-year-old is beneath no phantasm that the only real addition of the Sweden worldwide might be sufficient for the upcoming marketing campaign because the membership returns to the brilliant lights of the Champions League.
“We’re not deluded,” Howe stated following Newcastle’s 3-2 loss to Arsenal in Singapore as a part of their pre-season preparations.
“We all know we have to carry gamers in. We have identified that. We all know what we wished. It has been a difficult window.”
One other participant in Newcastle’s crosshairs is Brentford ace Yoane Wissa.
Newcastle have had a £25m bid rejected by the Bees for the winger, who indicated they might not half with their 19-goal star for something lower than £50m.
However Wissa, who has one yr remaining on his contract, is set to pressure an exit and has even refused to coach.
At 28, Wissa is known to carry a want to play Champions League soccer for a giant membership and believes it could be the final probability in his profession to take action.
This was communicated to Brentford in face-to-face talks over his future in London after Wissa left Brentford’s pre-season tour in Lisbon.
