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The race to sign Benjamin Šeško is heating up — but will the RB Leipzig striker choose European football with Newcastle United, or join the Rubén Amorim rebuild at Manchester United? In this latest video of 'What's On Our Feed?', we break down the pros and cons of both destinations, from playing time and tactical fit to ambitions and long-term project potential.
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Today we're looking at Benjamin Cesco's Premier League options and saying goodbye to a Premier
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League legend. I'm Matt from 442 and here's what's on our feed
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Let's begin with Benjamin Cesco and his Premier League options, of which it seems there are two
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I think you guys knew that already, Manchester United or Newcastle. First off, both of them
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can do with him tactically. Cesco seems to fit this mould of the number nine, the physical target
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man who's definitely the focal point of an attack, can bring others into play, can get on the end of
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crosses. It's very in this Haaland, Jocheres, Solanke, Isaac kind of style. Now at the moment
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according to reports, Manchester United are his favoured option, which is a little bit interesting
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given that Newcastle United are the ones with not just any European football, but with Champions
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League football next season. However, Manchester United are our new look, let's call it that
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They freshened up. Kunia is in. Mbwemo is in. Rashford is out
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It looks like Garnaccio is leaving. Potentially, Hojland and Xerxes are going to go as well. There's an argument to be made without European football
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United are going to have a better season because, well, they're going to have less distractions
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They're going to be playing fewer games. They're going to be fresher to hit the Premier League hard on the weekend
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To be honest, a club the size of Manchester United are never too far away from having a positive season
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and getting back into European football. Now, I say this with the most recent season
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being the perfect example. United finished 15th, was it? 14th? 15th? Very poor by their standards
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However, they've then gone into the summer, still had enough money, enough wage budget
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enough pull to bring in Umbermo and Cunha, both of whom played for teams that finished above
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Manchester United in the league table. And Umbermo especially has been on the up and up and up
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with Brentford, who are on the up and up. So the fact that they can do that just goes to show you that sooner or later
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United will have another good season and get back into European football. Now, obviously, Newcastle will do the same as well
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but it just seems like that isn't necessarily a factor for Cescola or for any other player
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that United don't have European football this season. Because I think it's very, very achievable to think that they might have it next season onwards
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Like, United putting together a good campaign finishing in Europe. What's that, the top eight, the top seven, top eight, maybe winning a cup
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It's not completely unthinkable. As for Newcastle though it basically all hinges on the Alexander deal We know this We know there a lot of talk about the Sweden leaving especially for Liverpool But I think it kind of works for and against Newcastle
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If Isaac leaves, they're getting rid of a player who doesn't want to be at the club. That's good
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Cescule comes in and he's a good replacement. That's also very good. And for those of you saying, oh, he hasn't been as good
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May I remind you that Alexander Isaac's numbers weren't exactly spectacular. He didn't exactly do that well at Dortmund
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And at Real Sociedad, he had okay seasons. But before coming to the Premier League, certainly at the time
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I think it was about 70-odd million that Newcastle signed Isaac from Sociedad for
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He wasn't a £70 million player at the time. Certainly wasn't putting up the numbers
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So there's an argument to say that Cesco could be the next Isaac. Certainly they have similar playing styles
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And I think Cesco could benefit from Eddie Howe's system just as much as Isaac did
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the problem is that they're not going to sign sesco until isak leaves until they know they need
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a replacement but once isak has left rb leipzig who are going to be selling benjamin sesco now know
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that they've got 120 million in the bank they might not have it all at once like i'm aware that
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costs are spread out over the course of a few seasons but they will know that newcastle are
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in a financial position to spend a lot of money because whether it's this summer in one chunk which
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I highly doubt or over the next few years they will be getting 120 million maybe plus a few add-ons
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from Liverpool which then will push the price a little bit further for Cesco it's a complicated
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one for both sides um but yeah I would say that the reason Cesco probably would want Manchester
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United is look as much as you want to talk about the last decade being poor historically they are
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a bigger club in Premier League terms, in English football terms, in success terms than Newcastle are
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As for where he fits in at Manchester United, actually, I feel like he'd be the main striker
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ahead of Matthias Cunha. I know Cunha can play centre-forward. I don't see Cunha dropping deeper
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and taking over the number 10 role from Bruno Fernandes. But yeah, there's definitely options
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to be had. And like I said, when you haven't got European football and you can play one game
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you know, in the Premier League, maybe two games per week at certain periods throughout the season
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And being able to switch between two players like that is unbelievably good. On to one player moving into the Premier League potentially
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from one who's just left, and it's Xiong Min Sun. And this will hurt Spurs fans
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It certainly hurt a lot of the players. I don't know if you saw the videos of Sun playing his final game for the club after 10 years
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It was against Newcastle in a pre-season friendly in South Korea. A very, very fitting way for him to end his time in the Premier League
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you know, in his home country. There were tears There were tears to be had Even the Newcastle players were joining in like the goodbye on the pitch And I think it actually works Like no team wants to see one of their legendary players leave
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No fans want to see one of their legendary players leave. Never mind all the teammates. James Madison posted like a really nice three-minute video in tribute to Son
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But it kind of makes sense in the same way that it made sense when Harry Kane left, when Ange joined the club
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Harry Kane leaving was such a point of discussion. every single transfer window for Spurs for so many years
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And when he finally left, Spurs reinvested the money and it felt like a changing of the guard is maybe a bit too strong
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but it felt like a point to go, right, we're starting afresh. You know, the legacy from the old guard is out, Ange is in
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Obviously, here we are two years later and the same thing's happened again. The manager's changed
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But now Thomas Frank is in. Spurs have made some good signings. They're looking to the future and it feels like a really good time
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for Son to say this is the end of that era. This is the end of the last decade of Tottenham Hotspur
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And then he's leaving. And there's a few who have been left over from, I guess, the time Son joined
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Ben Davies is the only one, actually, that comes to mind. And it feels like it's a good time for him to go
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Jungman's son lifts the Europa League in his last competitive match for Spurs. He consolidates himself as a legend
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He's definitely a Premier League legend for all that he's done in the last 10 years. It just seems to make sense
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And actually, talking about that legacy, the amount of goal contributions he's had since joining the club
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is third in Premier League, in the Premier League, only behind Mo Salah and Harry Kane
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That is immense consistency over 10 years. I think there's four Player of the Month awards in there
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one Premier League golden boot, over 100 assists for Spurs, over 150 goals
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over 400 appearances for them in all competitions. You know, when Jurgen Klopp says that's the one regret in his career
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not signing Kilman Sun, you know you're a pretty good player. I would genuinely put him in the top five wingers of all time in the Premier League
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For what Son has done, for his contributions, for the way he's played. Yeah, maybe top five, maybe fourth or fifth best Premier League left winger of all time
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Let me know in the comments where you'd place him. And talking of placing or replacing, it's how does Spurs replace him
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And it's a rather unusual one because they can replace him in the starting line-up with Tell
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Wilson, Odebeir, Thomas Frank was even talking about Brendan Johnson switching sides from the right-hand side to the left
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But it's not just positionally they need to replace Xiong Min Son
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It's contribution-wise. It's the goals. If, let's take Tel for example, if Tel can come into left wing and help Dominic Solanke
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score more goals, that's fine. They replaced the goals that someone bringing to the team But if not it a really really big reliance that they had on Son in the last few years that they need to replace whether that from the left winger whether it from helping San Anki score more whether it buying another number 10 especially with Maddison now injured
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that is going to help score more goals. They need to replace more than just another number in starting 11
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They need to replace his output. They'll need to get back into the transfer market
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Spurs don't exactly do things quickly, let's say, and they threaten to do things quickly only in the summer with Morgan Gibbs-White
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and look what happened there. That slipped through their fingers. Eberreche Eze would be perfect in terms of playing central and left
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It looks like he's more inclined to join Arsenal. But yeah, that's basically what is going to be going down and what needs to be done at Spurs
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There was a really, really good post from Richarlison tagging Spurs, saying make it happen on his Instagram
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And it's a bronze statue of Spurs lifting the Europa League. And honestly, Spurs don't have too many legends in the Premier League era that maybe would deserve a statue
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there's nothing kind of Sergio Aguero, Kevin De Bruyne level at Manchester City
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Having said that, 10 years at the club, a meaningful contributor over those 10 years
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and having lifted the Europa League trophy as captain, maybe he's got more of an argument to have a bronze statue outside of the stadium
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than Harry Kane doesn't. That's really saying something. And to finish off though, we'll do something that's quite amusing
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definitely to loads of you in the comments section on Instagram under a post from Porto who announced their new signing of Luke de Jong
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because they announced it before a match in some sort of throwback to when nobody knew that a transfer was happening
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and the comments are ripping for Brizio Romano. He's sleeping on this one
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He knew nothing about it, this, that and the other. In the world of transfers
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where everyone seems to know what's happening before the player even knows
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I found this quite funny. And it is quite cool. It is quite cool that you go as a Porto fan to the game
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and you think, oh, we're going to watch a preseason game. And then, yeah, a brand new signing gets unveiled in Luke de Jong
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I think that's really, really cool. So yeah, that was everything that was on our feed for this week
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But before we go, one more thing. This is the 4-4-2 season preview
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It's our latest magazine. It's out now in stores. You can go and buy it. I've even written a little thing about my football club in there
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See if you can tell who that is. And there's loads, loads of other bits in the magazine
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detailing the preview of the brand new Premier League season, Champions League season, championship season, I should say
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And loads more cool things about the upcoming campaign of English football
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So yeah, make sure you check that out now. You get two magazines in there as well. As for right this second though
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Like I said, is Hume Minson a top five Premier League left winger of all time
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And where do you think Benjamin Szczesko will end up? That's all from me for today though, and I'll see you in the next one
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