Arsenal are in a bit of a tough situation in their striker department right now, with injuries to Kai Havertz and Gabriel Jesus troubling their goal-scoring potential. But the Gunners seem to be working on improving that, and there is some positive news on their interest in Benjamin Sesko.<\/p>\n
German outlet Bild’s reporter Christian Falk has reported<\/a> that the Gunners are now leading the race to sign the RB Leipzig striker in the 2025 summer transfer window. The Gunners were strongly linked to Sesko<\/a> in the 2024 summer window, and they appear to still have an interest in acquiring his services.<\/p>\n Read More<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0<\/span>Arsenal \u2018Optimistic\u2019 in Priority Talks Over New Long-Term Contract For \u2018Extra Special\u2019 Midfielder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Falk also claims that that he can’t confirm for certain if the 22-year-old striker currently has a release clause inserted into his contract or not. He states: “I\u2019m aware he\u2019s got a gentleman\u2019s agreement with the club whereby he could leave if Leipzig receive an offer worth upwards of \u20ac70 million (\u00a358.8 million). The Premier League is very interesting for Sesko. What I heard is that Arsenal are leading the race. We heard that Arsenal are the hottest club, at the moment, for Benjamin Sesko.”<\/p>\n The Gunners can expect to face stiff competition for the signing of the Slovenian striker. That is because it’s also been reported<\/a> that Manchester United are keen<\/a> on signing him to resolve their striker situation. Interestingly, Sesko’s agent was forced to directly refer to Arsenal in the 2025 winter window when his client was getting linked to a loan move to the Emirates Stadium.<\/p>\n Read More<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0Arsenal Defender Ruled Out For Rest Of The Season<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n He had stated<\/a>: “I don\u2019t know where this story has come from but I have never talked with Arsenal about a loan move for Sesko. Sesko is not a player for loans and this was never a topic with Arsenal or any other club.” Sesko, who has been hailed as someone with “huge potential”<\/a>, has scored 17 goals in 34 appearances for the German side this season and could add a lot more firepower to Arsenal’s frontline next season, if they are able to sign him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arsenal are in a bit of a tough situation in their striker department right now, with injuries to Kai Havertz and Gabriel Jesus troubling their goal-scoring potential. But the Gunners seem to be working on improving that, and there is some positive news on their interest in Benjamin Sesko. Arsenal Lead Transfer Race for RB […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4218,"featured_media":648852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,7188],"tags":[32739,32738],"class_list":["post-652505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-arsenal","category-rumours","tag-arsenal","tag-arsenal-fixtures"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652523,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652505\/revisions\/652523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Who Are Arsenal Competing With for Sesko’s Signing?<\/h3>\n