SESKO INFORMATION VACUUM

WHY YOU SHOULDN'T GET MAD (MAYBE)

What’s that you say? Rodrygo, on the bench? Never came off it? Didn’t even warm up? Not in the matchday graphic for Madrid?

Best believe we’re reading the full book on this, and the title is DEFINITELY MOVING THIS SUMMER.

Sure, he started the last game, but that sort of “it’s probably just rotation after a heavy season” is the type of guff losers spout. Sorry people, it’s 2025, we can call people names and pass it off as trendy.

The Sesko story seems to be the most dominant, still. But because it’s gone quiet, engagement farmers are filling the information vacuum with things that sound like they could be true.

His agent is demanding a release clause…

The player wants wages that are far too rich for Arsenal…

He wants Arsenal to pick up the tab for two trips to Dishoom a season…

The reason I’m not so sure any of these so-called problems are real is that I know Arsenal have been talking to the player and his agents for a minimum of 18 months. The Arsenal transfer media ecosystem is designed to make you angry and desperate. The angrier you are, the more desperate you’re likely to be, the more likely you are to click an article. You’ve gone from sipping martinis at Club Athletic to stealing a jerry can from your grandma and filling it up at a TribalFootball garage just to get a little something going.

Pick yourself up. Have a shower. Return that jerry can. Realise that very few people on the internet have any access to players, agents, or club officials. Nor, it would seem, do many of these accounts understand how transfers work.

The first thing that’ll get agreed is terms. Intermediaries will suss out interest, they’ll put a number down, and the clubs will work out if they can do a deal. Clubs don’t guess on these things. No one negotiates a fee before checking there’s proper interest. So the idea that Sesko is all of a sudden out of our price range seems a bit silly.

On release clauses… clubs like Arsenal won’t normally engage in them. It takes control out of their hands. It impacts their ability to plan. It also says to the club that the player is already thinking about what’s next. It’s not a good look for anyone. These sorts of things tend to have more prominence at smaller clubs because super-talented players go to them younger, on the understanding they’ll get to move for a fair price when the time is right. Haaland went to Dortmund because he was guaranteed minutes and an exit that’d allow him to become one of the highest-paid players on the planet.

Spanish clubs do it because they legally have to.

Asking an English club to put an exit number on a player? It’s rare. It’s also a little bit arrogant. Like, what would the number be? £100m? £120m? Is there any point to it if it’s that high? If a player wants to leave these days, they can just bang the table. But… players don’t like to leave Arsenal these days. Right? RIGHT?

But back to it— I find this sort of posturing to be a bit ridiculous for a player who has had a couple of good seasons for Leipzig. I’m just not sure I’m buying it. This is a one-horse race, it’s a huge upgrade for him, Arteta would have put the big sales deck on him… this just feels like the sort of guff that gets flooded into the system when there’s nothing to talk about.

Gonna be AMAZING when I’m totally wrong and Sesko ends up a Chelsea player on £400k a week on a 19 year deal.

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