After a two-month run that brought goals in seven straight Bundesliga games, interest from five of England’s biggest teams followed by a new contract and a hefty raise from your current club, it was always going to be hard for Benjamin Sesko to enhance his reputation at Euro 2024.
Because at the moment, the 21-year-old Slovenian is football’s equivalent of the next big tech stock, a unicorn, all upside, you better jump on board before this train leaves the station and so on.
And all of that might still come to pass….
But what we have seen over the four games at this tournament is the reason why none of his many admirers have hit RB Leipzig’s magic number yet and he will be returning for another year of Red Bull finishing school next term.
More a case of reputation confirmed than enhanced.
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