Ryan Sessegnon

Champagne Football said:
Ross Barley has been written off so many times on here as an overhyped donkey, but after a good few years of looking pretty underwhelming, he's starting to look half decent. I think with Sessegnon he needs a few more years before he'll be a top winger. Defo worth purchasing now for anyone who has a spare £40 million to buy him.
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David Brooks is a better purchase I think
 
Champagne Football said:
Ross Barley has been written off so many times on here as an overhyped donkey, but after a good few years of looking pretty underwhelming, he's starting to look half decent. I think with Sessegnon he needs a few more years before he'll be a top winger. Defo worth purchasing now for anyone who has a spare £40 million to buy him.
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Way too much
 
Will be at a club like West Ham next season, maybe Tottenham if they're penny-pinching again.
 
Ekeke said:
Way too much
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Agreed. He's a development player who hasn't shone at all this season. He's a risk at 20 let alone twice that but then Manchester United are usually seen coming a long way off.
 
RedSky said:
He's had a relatively good season given his age and club frankly. He should now realise however that he needs to move on to a midtable club.
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I won't say Midtable move is always best, he looks good attacker but might not be very good winger at top level. So one more option should be playing as attacking fullback for big clubs or top 6 clubs.
 
Champagne Football said:
Ross Barley has been written off so many times on here as an overhyped donkey, but after a good few years of looking pretty underwhelming, he's starting to look half decent. I think with Sessegnon he needs a few more years before he'll be a top winger. Defo worth purchasing now for anyone who has a spare £40 million to buy him.
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Awkward. Barkley is utter shite. No more than a squaddie at best.
 
His numbers are pretty good in the context of Fulham's wretched season.

He has 2 goals and 6 assists, he has most assists in the squad and the second highest goals + assists at 8, behind Mitrovic with 12. He beats Mitrovic just with a goal or assist every 234 minutes to one every 236 minutes. Vietto and Babel have been more productive since signing in January, however, with a goal or assist every 197 and 176 minutes respectively.

Development wise, I saw a bit of him in the first half against City and he was pretty tidy and composed, when often he's poor in this regard. He's played in 7 different roles for Fulham this season. He'll always have his detractors due to his play style. He still has a lot of improvement to do but its pretty remarkable that he will have 35 appearances in the Premier League (if he gets minutes in all their remaining games) and 120 senior appearances overall before turning 19.
 
Definitely up for grabs now that Fulham are down. They also look unlikely to be coming up anytime soon as the Championship is very competitive.

If we did make a move, what's his best position for us? He's played at LB and Left Midfield.

Would we be buying for the sake of it?
 
I think he'd be well advised to stay at Fulham for another year. Any Premier League teams that want to sign Sessegnon won't be doing so on the evidence of this season and the most important thing for a player of his age is the guarantee of minutes.
 
He's mid table level right now. Could do a job for Everton or Newcastle etc, but not ready for a top 6 club.

He does need to get back to the premier league though, another season of the championship is a waste for him.
 
He’s still not a LB. Same people bemoaning playing Young at FB, who’s clearly a winger, are suggesting this lad for FB?

If Wagner goes Fulham, he should stay there, he has plenty of time on his side.
 
CM10 said:
I think he'd be well advised to stay at Fulham for another year. Any Premier League teams that want to sign Sessegnon won't be doing so on the evidence of this season and the most important thing for a player of his age is the guarantee of minutes.
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I disagree. I doubt there are any other 18 year old players in world football with so many minutes at the level Sessegnon's been playing at (I stand to be corrected on that?). For contrast, at 23, Andreas Pereira has 96 senior appearances whilst Sessegnon at 18 has 115.

I think Spurs would be a perfect move for him. He will be fine being a bit part player at a higher level for a couple of seasons, learning from better players and Alli in particular as I think he'll end up being a raumdeuter or 'second striker'.
 
Inigo Montoya said:
Definitely up for grabs now that Fulham are down. They also look unlikely to be coming up anytime soon as the Championship is very competitive.

If we did make a move, what's his best position for us? He's played at LB and Left Midfield.

Would we be buying for the sake of it?
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City will make an offer of 15mill ,Woodward will come in and offer 30mill and 100K a week
 
Worth a punt for LB. Clearly has talent, i'd make an offer and include a deal to loan him back for a year. Get him him for 2020/2021 as an under-study to Shaw.
 
Zlatattack said:
Worth a punt for LB. Clearly has talent, i'd make an offer and include a deal to loan him back for a year. Get him him for 2020/2021 as an under-study to Shaw.
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As we saw this season for Fulham he cant play LB in the premier league. He did alright when he played left wing
 
Ekeke said:
As we saw this season for Fulham he cant play LB in the premier league. He did alright when he played left wing
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Perhaps some Fulham fans can shed some light. I wonder if this was just because it was his first season there at a higher level? At Championship i think they were using him at LW too.
 
He will probably be a solid player in a few years, but this is not what we need now. We have a rock solid LB in Shaw, who is still young and can be a first-choice for at least 7-8 years. We are also well stacked at LW with Martial, Rashford and Sanchez. LB and LW are two of the few positions where we have first choices that are actually good enough to compete for titles in both PL and CL. In addition, we need players that can contribute from day 1 rather than talents. We already have a lot of talents, and a lot of average footballers. We need world class players at RB, CB and RW, and probably a midfielder as well.
 
Needham said:
Agreed. He's a development player who hasn't shone at all this season. He's a risk at 20 let alone twice that but then Manchester United are usually seen coming a long way off.
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Fulham spent a lot this season (2nd most behind Liverpool) and are now relegated. They'll need to sell a bunch of players and even their big signings are unlikely to recoup them even half of what they paid for them last summer.

Sessegnon is perhaps their one player that will have suitors because he's young and English and there was some hype about him last year. So he'll be their most valuable player, but in the situation Fulham are in they have to sell him. Playing another year in the championship proves nothing for Sessegnon. And bids are sure to come in for him. Fulham are in no position to turn them down regardless of how much they are, so they'll surely take whoever offers most.

So with that situational context on top of the fact that he has only been okay this season, someone will likely pick him up for around as much as Seri, Fulham's big signing last summer, cost them - £25.6 million

Because how else are Fulham going to get all that money back? None of their players looked worth double figures this season other than this kid who might be worth it long term.
 
He can cover for Shaw and also play right or left wing. Bring him in and develop him. Or watch Spurs do so and see his valuation triple within 2 years.
 
groovyalbert said:
Will be at a club like West Ham next season, maybe Tottenham if they're penny-pinching again.
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Wouldn't mind that at all.

He's 18. He has so much time on his hands, a poor first PL season is no disaster, especially when playing in a totally dysfunctional Fulham side. I think any youngster would struggle to thrive in that environment, even ones who possess more talent than Sessegnon does.


He has genuine ability, you don't do what he did in the championship at that age without it. I've seen flashes of it in the Premier League but again, hard to show it consistently in a team which is so poor. Not to say that as an individual he doesn't need to improve a great deal, because he obviously does, but I can't think of many better than Pochettino to develop his game.

We might get him on a reasonably good deal because his stock is perhaps not as high as it was last season, and I imagine he won't want another season in the championship. We're never going to be able to compete for the 'top tier' players so punts like this with the potential for great return are the way to go for us.
 
He's an excellent talent. He's been playing in a horrid Fulham team and ofcourse that's why his numbers wouldn't be great. How many 17yr old dominate Championship like he did last season?

I would like us to sign him.
 
If sign him and loan him out for a couple of years, maybe to Germany. He's going to be a good player but he's not ready for United yet.
 
I wouldn't mind signing him at all, but I think playing 3 full seasons at Fulham would set him up nicely for the next move. He'll only be 20, he'll be more mature and have his pick of the clubs. That being said, I imagine German clubs would be sniffing around him and that would also be a good move - provided it's a team he'll get first team football in.
 
KM said:
He's an excellent talent. He's been playing in a horrid Fulham team and ofcourse that's why his numbers wouldn't be great. How many 17yr old dominate Championship like he did last season?

I would like us to sign him.
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Exactly. I mean I do doubt he'll ever be 1st choice for us as a left winger (never rule it out), but if he can (big if) develop as a LB, just imagine how good in attack he'll be in his prime? Look at Marcelo. Sessegnon as a 17 year old tore up the Championship as a LW. Can other LBs be played at LW and achieve the same thing (much less at that age 17)? Doubt it. The potential is huge for him as a LB and of course, for a club that isn't as good as United, I would imagine he's a good buy as a future winger.

I'm all for signing him regardless even if it's as a winger. We can loan him out to develop and we never know if Martial is here in a few years, though I'm assuming he will be.
 
Zlatattack said:
Worth a punt for LB. Clearly has talent, i'd make an offer and include a deal to loan him back for a year. Get him him for 2020/2021 as an under-study to Shaw.
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Loan yes, but not back in the Championship
 
Had a poor season, but I'll take him here, he's still a kid and the talent is there. Playing for a better club under a better manager and training with better players would do wonders for him I feel. We will have a lot of games next season, so even as a squad player he will get playing time.
 
Wasn't he supposed to be some sort of second coming of the Christ like Jadon Sancho is? Meanwhile I've noticed that Rice is heading to the Reo-Coker level of greatness
 
devilish said:
Wasn't he supposed to be some sort of second coming of the Christ like Jadon Sancho is? Meanwhile I've noticed that Rice is heading to the Reo-Coker level of greatness
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No. He's was supposed to be a very good teenager with a good goalscoring record in the championship.
 
Nick7 said:
No. He's was supposed to be a very good teenager with a good goalscoring record in the championship.
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my point is that many tend to hype players especially if they happen to be British. I am not against signing young talent quite the contrary. However it must come at the right price which would then allow to consider him in a role which is appropriate to his capabilities at that point in time. For example if we spend 75m on Rice then he must hit the ground running which is next to impossible given his age, talent and experience.
 
I think Sessegnon would by a perfect signing for us this summer. He was on everyones lips last summer, and while his numbers in the Prem hasn't been fantastic he should be an even more interesting option after a season at the highest level. As we have seen lately, we desperately need backup for Shaw at LB. With Alexis and Lukaku looking to leave, we could also use Rashford as our main striker and Martial as LW with Sessegnon as backup. His contract with Fulham is expiring next summer, so he should be attainable for a reasonable price.
 
Been saying that I’d gladly have him. We have one left-back in the squad as far as I’m concerned. We don’t have a clear outstanding LB coming through either. And the one left back we do have excels defensively. Sessegnon could be a good attacking alternative I think. Either way, I think we’ll get a left back next summer at the latest, right back this year, then when Young leaves, a LB.
 
Wallez said:
I think Sessegnon would by a perfect signing for us this summer. He was on everyones lips last summer, and while his numbers in the Prem hasn't been fantastic he should be an even more interesting option after a season at the highest level. As we have seen lately, we desperately need backup for Shaw at LB. With Alexis and Lukaku looking to leave, we could also use Rashford as our main striker and Martial as LW with Sessegnon as backup. His contract with Fulham is expiring next summer, so he should be attainable for a reasonable price.
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He's not a leftback. He's looked worse there than Fosu Mensah has looked at rightback.

Still has a chance as a winger but needs more development to play much at a big club
 
A young left sided player that could be a fullback or winger for us makes sense to me. He has played 24 games + 9 sub and has 2 goals and 6 assists at the age of 18. Sign him, Rice, Bissaka,Sancho and De Light. Start to play Greenwood, Garner, Gomes and Chong also. Keep De Gea,Shaw,Lindelof,Rashford,Martial,Pogba(hopefully) as starting players. McTominay,Smalling,Lingard,Tuanzebe,Dalot as squad players. Then we would need 2 more signings like Ndomble and Rabiot and we would have a very exciting squad again full of talent, pace and most importantly with characther and leaders in De Light and Rice. There is no leader on the field for us now.
Young,Valencia,Rojo,Jones,Bailly,Darmian,Matic,Herrera(sadly leaving it seems),Mata,Sanchez,Lukaku,Fred,Pereira have no future as Man Utd players and we need to face that.
 
Wallez said:
I think Sessegnon would by a perfect signing for us this summer. He was on everyones lips last summer, and while his numbers in the Prem hasn't been fantastic he should be an even more interesting option after a season at the highest level. As we have seen lately, we desperately need backup for Shaw at LB. With Alexis and Lukaku looking to leave, we could also use Rashford as our main striker and Martial as LW with Sessegnon as backup. His contract with Fulham is expiring next summer, so he should be attainable for a reasonable price.
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Agreed, for a cut price deal he’d be an excellent signing. Would be another option at left back and give us a possibilty to even go 4-4-2 when Ole feels it fits.
 
johanovic said:
A young left sided player that could be a fullback or winger for us makes sense to me. He has played 24 games + 9 sub and has 2 goals and 6 assists at the age of 18. Sign him, Rice, Bissaka,Sancho and De Light. Start to play Greenwood, Garner, Gomes and Chong also. Keep De Gea,Shaw,Lindelof,Rashford,Martial,Pogba(hopefully) as starting players. McTominay,Smalling,Lingard,Tuanzebe,Dalot as squad players. Then we would need 2 more signings like Ndomble and Rabiot and we would have a very exciting squad again full of talent, pace and most importantly with characther and leaders in De Light and Rice. There is no leader on the field for us now.
Young,Valencia,Rojo,Jones,Bailly,Darmian,Matic,Herrera(sadly leaving it seems),Mata,Sanchez,Lukaku,Fred,Pereira have no future as Man Utd players and we need to face that.
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Great post
 
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