Benjamin Sesko has been signed by Manchester United for a sum of £73.7 million (85 million euros) through Red Bull Leipzig.
A guaranteed payment of £66.3 million (76. 5 million euros), with the rest being added on, is included in the agreement.
Before making his final move to Old Trafford, Sesko will now complete the paperwork, including a Friday medical.
The 22-year-old Slovenian international has made 87 starts for German side Leipzig and has also attracted interest from Newcastle.
For a combined fee of around £130 million, United have already signed forwards Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo this summer.
While Marcus Rashford’s entire £325, 000-a-week salary is being covered by his loan move to Barcelona, those payments have been put in place in a favorable manner so that United can continue to spend.
After Chelsea pulled out of a Jadon Sancho deal, United also received £5 million from them.
Additionally, United could raise another £50 million by selling Argentine winger Alejandro Garnacho, who is attracting interest from Chelsea and has been given a transfer deadline this summer.
Rasmus Hojlund, their main striker from last season, has been offered for sale for £40 million after only 14 Premier League goals in the last two years.
With 39 goals in 87 games, Sesko is currently the top scorer under the age of 23 among players in Europe’s top five leagues. He moved to Germany.
Florian Wirtz, who left Bayer Leverkusen for £100m this summer, is one step ahead of Real Madrid’s Jude Bellingham and is five clear of him.
Sesko is big, strong, quick, agile, and a strong finisher, and not just because they both played for Salzburg.
champion of Italy. Player of the Year in the Serie A. endorsed by one of football’s most devoted supporters. Currently a nominee for the Ballon d’Or.
Scott McTominay would not want to wake up if the previous year had been his dream.
The 28-year-old Napoli and Scotland midfielder’s place on the 30-man shortlist for the best player in the world was announced 347 days after his last game for Manchester United.
That served as a substitute. Towards Brighton, away. In a 2-1 defeat.
However, McTominay was living the dream in Naples after moving for a bargain £25.7 million fee on August 30, while his boyhood club United struggled to finish in 15th place.
He won the league, finished the season with 12 goals, and McTominay was named Serie A’s MVP (most valuable player).
And it was McTominay’s stunning scissor kick against Cagliari on the final day of the season that helped Napoli win the title, much like something from a script.
A far cry from the Manchester United player who would have arguably been referred to as solid but unspectacular.
Conte transforms McTominay into a “raider.”
Images courtesy of Getty
At Napoli, McTominay has unmistakably excelled. However, Antonio Conte made the tactical choice that made all of this possible.
He was a “water carrier,” as BBC pundit Pat Nevin put it. He was a defensive midfielder at Manchester United.
Before Steve Clarke began playing him in an attacking midfield position, Scotland even used him at center-back for a while.
And Conte seemed to enjoy it as well if it was good enough for Clarke.
McTominay, the joint league top-scoring midfielder, scored 12 goals in 34 Serie A games for Napoli.
In contrast, he had only managed 19 goals in United’s 178 Premier League games.
The best option when you have a number nine like Romelu Lukaku is to have him raid in the system of Conte, according to journalist Vincenzo Credendino, who spoke to BBC Sport in May.
In terms of duels won in Serie A and midfielders touched the ball in the opposition penalty area, McTominay was near the top.
You can compare McTominay to the dominant midfielders of Conte’s time, Credendino said. Claudio Marchisio and Arturo Vidal each scored nine and ten goals during their first seasons with Juventus, 2011-12 and 2012-13, respectively.
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What makes McTominay so successful in Naples?
McTominay, who is a member of Scotland through his father, enjoys life both on and off the field.
He joined Manchester United at the age of five after being born in Lancaster, north-west England.
After making 255 appearances for United, he made the decision to stand on his own two feet.
He recently mentioned living abroad and how it gives you more mental strength.
“My mother and I have always been very close, so I could travel wherever I wanted.”
It’s different because I live 1,500 miles away from my parents, my family, my sister, and my children, so it’s different, but in life you sometimes have to push yourself outside your comfort zone, and I’ve always taken advantage of that.
“If I can go anywhere, establish myself, and do well, why not?” “I would never want to be in my comfort zone. Who can I turn to for help with that?”
Billy Gilmour, his friend and Scotland teammate, is a plus. On the same day as McTominay’s arrival from Brighton, the midfielder joined Napoli.
The way you eat, the way you live, and everything else are completely different in this country, McTominay continued.
“I’m fortunate that Billy Gilmour, one of my close friends, has been fantastic with me. Along the way, we have encouraged each other and engaged in various activities.
Why is McTominay so popular with Napoli fans?
San Ciro
The legends of Napoli are idolized in a way unique to other clubs, most notably Diego Maradona.
McTominay became the face of Conte’s revolution with the success of last season, which marked only Napoli’s fourth Serie A title.
A city center shrine bears his image on it.
San Ciro restaurant in Edinburgh have a Scotland flag bearing with the words ‘Napoli. McTominay. Pizza. In that order.’
The co-owner of the restaurant, Ciro Sartore, and his brother Santo, said: “Napoli fans love when a player commits to the city, and his kissing the Napoli badge shows how important the love and appreciation are to him. Of course, scoring a lot of goals is also beneficial.
He was reportedly known as McFratm (basically McBro), and one tattoo of his on a supporter’s leg went viral.
Before they settled on that one, he was also known as McTerminator, MacGyver, and apribottiglie (the bottle opener), and he claims that it is his favorite.
“Neapolitans are incredible people,” McTominay recently said.
They are so passionate, and people always say “Forza Napoli” and want to talk to you and strike up a conversation. They care because they always inspire you when you pitch.
“Every time we pitch on the pitch, it’s inspiring, and we want to push ourselves to win.”
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champion of Italy. Player of the Year in the Serie A. endorsed by one of football’s most devoted supporters. Currently a nominee for the Ballon d’Or.
Scott McTominay would not want to wake up if the previous year had been his dream.
The 28-year-old Napoli and Scotland midfielder’s place on the 30-man shortlist for the best player in the world was announced 347 days after his last game for Manchester United.
That served as a substitute. Towards Brighton, away. In a 2-1 defeat.
However, McTominay was living the dream in Naples after moving for a bargain £25.7 million fee on August 30, while his boyhood club United struggled to finish in 15th place.
He won the league, finished the season with 12 goals, and McTominay was named Serie A’s MVP (most valuable player).
And it was McTominay’s stunning scissor kick against Cagliari on the final day of the season that helped Napoli win the title, much like something from a script.
A far cry from the Manchester United player who would have arguably been referred to as solid but unspectacular.
Conte transforms McTominay into a “raider.”
Images courtesy of Getty
At Napoli, McTominay has unmistakably excelled. However, Antonio Conte made the tactical choice that made all of this possible.
He was a “water carrier,” as BBC pundit Pat Nevin put it. He was a defensive midfielder at Manchester United.
Before Steve Clarke began playing him in an attacking midfield position, Scotland even used him at center-back for a while.
And Conte seemed to enjoy it as well if it was good enough for Clarke.
McTominay, the joint league top-scoring midfielder, scored 12 goals in 34 Serie A games for Napoli.
In contrast, he had only managed 19 goals in United’s 178 Premier League games.
The best option when you have a number nine like Romelu Lukaku is to have him raid in the system of Conte, according to journalist Vincenzo Credendino, who spoke to BBC Sport in May.
In terms of duels won in Serie A and midfielders touched the ball in the opposition penalty area, McTominay was near the top.
You can compare McTominay to the dominant midfielders of Conte’s time, Credendino said. Claudio Marchisio and Arturo Vidal each scored nine and ten goals during their first seasons with Juventus, 2011-12 and 2012-13, respectively.
What makes McTominay so successful in Naples?
JavaScript must be enabled in your browser to play this video.
McTominay, who is a member of Scotland through his father, enjoys life both on and off the field.
He joined Manchester United at the age of five after being born in Lancaster, north-west England.
After making 255 appearances for United, he made the decision to stand on his own two feet.
He recently mentioned living abroad and how it gives you more mental strength.
“My mother and I have always been very close, so I could travel wherever I wanted.”
It’s different because I live 1,500 miles away from my parents, my family, my sister, and my children, so it’s different, but in life you sometimes have to push yourself outside your comfort zone, and I’ve always taken advantage of that.
“If I can go anywhere, establish myself, and do well, why not?” “I would never want to be in my comfort zone. Who can I turn to for help with that?”
Billy Gilmour, his friend and Scotland teammate, is a plus. On the same day as McTominay’s arrival from Brighton, the midfielder joined Napoli.
The way you eat, the way you live, and everything else are completely different in this country, McTominay continued.
“I’m fortunate that Billy Gilmour, one of my close friends, has been fantastic with me. Along the way, we have encouraged each other and engaged in various activities.
Why is McTominay so popular with Napoli fans?
San Ciro
The legends of Napoli are idolized in a way unique to other clubs, most notably Diego Maradona.
McTominay became the face of Conte’s revolution with the success of last season, which marked only Napoli’s fourth Serie A title.
A city center shrine bears his image on it.
San Ciro restaurant in Edinburgh have a Scotland flag bearing with the words ‘Napoli. McTominay. Pizza. In that order.’
The co-owner of the restaurant, Ciro Sartore, and his brother Santo, said: “Napoli fans love when a player commits to the city, and his kissing the Napoli badge shows how important the love and appreciation are to him. Of course, scoring a lot of goals is also beneficial.
He was reportedly known as McFratm (basically McBro), and one tattoo of his on a supporter’s leg went viral.
Before they settled on that one, he was also known as McTerminator, MacGyver, and apribottiglie (the bottle opener), and he claims that it is his favorite.
“Neapolitans are incredible people,” McTominay recently said.
They are so passionate, and people always say “Forza Napoli” and want to talk to you and strike up a conversation. They care because they always inspire you when you pitch.
“Every time we pitch on the pitch, it’s inspiring, and we want to push ourselves to win.”
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Zoe Ball, a radio personality for BBC Radio, revealed she was in tears and hurt after her car was broken into while she was on the One Show last week.
Zoe Ball has recalled the scary incident (Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images)
Zoe Ball has revealed she was left “wounded” following a break-in while she was on live TV. The BBC radio star appeared on the One Show last week, but uncovered a nasty surprise on her way home.
She had just left the BBC studios in London when she noticed her car had been smashed and her bag stolen. Zoe emotionally shared how she blames herself for the incident and was left in floods of tears.
The presenter confessed the incident left her shook up and “froze” as she tried to figure out what to do. It comes after Zoe gave a rare love life insight following her Fatboy Slim split.
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Zoe says she burst into tears when she got home(Image: BBC)
On their Dig It podcast, Zoe shared that “someone had smashed the front window of my car,” adding that this had never happened to her.
Zoe made the decision to cover the broken window with an old festival poncho that she had in her car. I firmly slammed it against the smashed door and said, “Right, okay, I’m probably going to have to drive from London to Brighton at 30 miles per hour.” she reaffirmed.
“But what do you know, exactly?” It was very loud when I reached 60.” Jo Whiley and Bob Harris were playing the show on Zoe’s radio as she drove home.
She laughed, “I’ve never heard the country show play so loud in my ear.” “Thank you both for safely returning me home.” Zoe admitted that the incident might not have occurred if she hadn’t placed her bag in the front seat despite getting home safely.
She admitted, “I’m not very practical. What do I do when things like that occur occasionally make me think, “Right, oh yes, I do? I lack any masking tape, “. They were fine, as long as they didn’t end up getting anything valuable.
Zoe insisted she was undoubtedly hurt when the incident occurred. She continued, “I entered and I cried a lot. Do you have any knowledge of my actions? I made a stupid mistake by walking into The One Show in my suits and bag.
And I left a bag in the front seat as we planned to take a photo with our [team] on Spotify, which was amazing. Idiot, big no, big no in London. Thankfully, it only contains my diary.
Zoe acknowledged that crying was so excruciating that it actually felt good to release her. I adore big blubs, and it was good. those situations where you wake up in the morning and are slightly swollen and like, “Well, I’m glad I got that out,”
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Jo also revealed that Jo had her phone taken, and that she had been targeted while in the capital. She claimed that “just a boy on a bike literally snatched it from my hand.”
It’s just so disappointing that someone would act in this manner, as you have [happen] to another person.
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On Saturday, tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Tel Aviv to demand that their government negotiate the release of two Israeli prisoners imprisoned in Gaza who had been depicted in Hamas footage as starving.
The video demonstrated how the captives’ experience with the Israeli blockade of Gaza in March affected the rest of the population there.
At least 197 people have been starved to death in Gaza so far, 96 of them children. Global outcry over the famine Israel is putting on the island has grown.
However, a survey from the Israel Democracy Institute (PDF) revealed that more than half of Jewish Israeli respondents were “not at all troubled” by Gaza’s reports of Palestinian hunger and suffering.
Images of the enormous human costs of Israel’s actions were featured on the front pages of international newspapers that were previously accused of backing the Israeli occupation of Gaza.
In ostensible defiance of international outcry, far-right Israeli agitators have blocked aid trucks from reaching Gaza’s starving region for the past 24 hours.
Former allies that have a history of standing, including Canada, France, and the United Kingdom, have condemned Israel’s actions in Gaza and pledged to support the recognition of Palestinian statehood if no resolution is reached.
I suppose that Hamas can be accused of stealing the aid because Israeli settlers are stopping and destroying it so that Israel-first politicians in the West can do it. twitter.com/6ECMP23g8r
Two of Israel’s top NGOs, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, Israel, have labelled Israel’s occupation of Gaza a genocide, and there are now more protests.
However, hundreds of demonstrators, led by wounded soldiers and some of the captives’ families, marched on Jerusalem’s Knesset, demanding that the conflict in Gaza continue.
The majority of Israeli society hasn’t yet been fully aware of the extent of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and their government’s role in it, according to Orly Noy, a journalist and editor of the Israeli Hebrew-language magazine Local Call.
This is especially true because the media hasn’t covered Gaza’s suffering.
Noy told Al Jazeera, “I stay away from Israeli TV.” “But yesterday, I was round at my mother’s, and they were covering the incident on the video between the two captives.
She continued, “For once, starvation and famine in Gaza were finally on Israeli news,” adding that the wider Israeli public was being informed that the only two people who were in need of food in Gaza were the captives in the Hamas film.
The widespread hunger reported by numerous aid organizations as “a Hamas-orchestrated starvation campaign” has been the subject of a foreword in Israel’s mainstream media for months.
Political analyst and former government adviser Daniel Levy told Al Jazeera that this perception extends beyond the nationalistic television channels’ framing.
It is the result of decades of self-justification and dehumanization, Levi said.
Most Israelis would find it unsettling to express some moral condemnation of the nation despite feeling that something has seriously wrong. They are able to make sense of it through a kind of cognitive dissonance at play.
According to Israeli sociologist Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani, there is also the language being used by politicians, the media, and ultimately the general public to discuss the war.
They have corroded language, they say. They refer to a humanitarian city as “humanitarian city” rather than “concentration camps.” They use the phrase “elimination” instead of “killing.” A biblical name is used today to describe every military operation.
We don’t mention that “such and such a thing” occurred in June. During Operation Whatever, we say “. It teaches understanding of everything. Jargon has evolved into a completely new form of speech. He referred to the dystopian novel in which the state dictates language, which he claimed would become Orwell’s 1984.
tides that change
However, most Israelis continue to see Gaza’s starvation through the lenses of its politicians and media, but there are indications that the mood is beginning to change, according to observers.
Alon-Lee Green of Standing Together is detained while holding a demonstration near Gaza [Photo by Standing Together]
A member of the left-wing Hadash-Ta’al party’s delegation in Israel, Aida Touma-Suleiman, said, “This isn’t going to hold up.”
More and more people are becoming aware that Gaza’s population is actually starving, and how can it not have been prevented by Israel’s massive effort to send food there?
In the meantime, standing up for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is becoming more and more prevalent across all facets of Israeli society, though for frequently with very different reasons, activists like Alon-Lee Green of the Israeli-Palestinian group Stand Up.
“We don’t care why people are calling for war,” the leader said. We don’t care if it’s because your children aren’t interested in going to Gaza and killing people because you don’t want to go on another tour with the army. You’re welcome, he said, if you’re opposed to the war.
However, despite the deaths of more than 61, 000 Palestinians since October 2023 and the loss of thousands more to the unidentified and presumed dead, the majority of Israeli society has yet to accept the reality of the suffering Israel is inflicting on Gaza.  ,
According to Shenhav-Shahrabani, “we’ve reached the point where the Israeli state and society have lost whatever moral responsibilities they had as a result of the Holocaust.”
Zoe Ball, a BBB Radio 2 presenter, thinks the culprit was on her show to promote her new podcast with Jo Whiley.
Zoe Ball discovered that the culprit had smashed her window and stolen her bag(Image: GETTY)
Zoe Ball said she was left in tears last week after discovering that her car had been broken into, shortly after appearing on The One Show. The 54-year-old BBC Radio 2 presenter shared her ordeal, as she admitted to feeling partly responsible for leaving a bag visible on the front seat.
She shared the incident with her co-host for Dig It, Jo Whiley, saying, “Someone had smashed the front window of my car, that’s never happened to me before.”
As she attempted to process what had happened and determine what to do, Zoe described initially feeling “a little frozen.”
Then, resourcefully, Zoe discovered a festival-themed poncho in her car to cover the broken window.
She said, “I tightened it and slammed it against the smashed door like, “Right, okay, I’m probably going to have to drive from London to Brighton at 30 miles per hour.”
Zoe Ball said she was left in tears after the incident(Image: DIGITPODCAST)
Zoe said she was able to increase her speed despite the setback, but that she remembered how loud her surroundings were.
The presenter chose to listen to her podcast partner’s radio show, which was followed by Bob Harris’ program, while returning home.
She joked, “I’ve never heard the country show quite so loud in my ear,” and credited them with assisting her in getting home safely.
Zoe pondered the break-in by not leaving her bag in the front seat.
She admitted, “I’m not very practical. What do I do when things like that occur occasionally make me think, “Right, oh yes, I do? I lack any masking tape, “. They were fine, as long as they didn’t end up getting anything valuable.
When questioned about whether the incident had left her feeling hurt, Zoe responded, “I entered and I had a massive cry.”
Zoe Ball believes the crime happened while she appeared on The One Show (Image: FACEBOOK/THEONESHOW)
Do you have any knowledge of my actions? I made a stupid mistake by walking into The One Show in my suits and bag.
I left a bag in the front seat while we planned to take a photo with our Spotify picture team, which was amazing. Idiot, big no, big no in London. Thankfully, it only contains my diary.
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She quipped, “I love a big blub, it was good.” those situations where you wake up in the morning and find yourself feeling swollen and like, “Well, I’m glad I got that out.”
Jo responded by empathizing before revealing that she had also been a victim of crime in the capital.
