Man Utd striker Benjamin Sesko has scored twice in the Premier League since his summer arrival from RB Leizpig.
Benjamin Sesko applauds.(Image: 2025 Manchester United FC)
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Ruben Amorim believes Manchester United striker Benjamin Sesko has "struggled a little bit" since joining the club.
United signed Sesko for €76.5million (£66.4m) and €8.5m (£7.3m) in add-ons in the summer. The 22-year-old started on the bench for the opening three Premier League games of the season. He made his debut against Manchester City in September and notched his first goal against Brentford.
Sesko built on that by scoring against Sunderland to secure a 2-0 victory last month. However, he was benched against Liverpool at Anfield and failed to fire in the next two matches.
The Slovenia international scuffed two chances against Nottingham Forest last weekend. United legend Gary Neville reacted by saying: “He's miles off it compared to the other forwards United brought in."
Amroim was asked whether he is relaxed about Sesko's start in Manchester. "Yeah, I'm relaxed. He's not relaxed," he said. "What I mean is that I understand how things are in football and he's going to struggle.
"That is normal. He has no experience here. And then the first impact when everyone says that you are so good, you are the next big thing, and you hear about that with Sesko, and then you come to one club that is the hardest club.
"If you don't perform every week, you are going to hear a lot of things from club legends, from pundits, from the media, and sometimes they are right.
"To have the ability to understand that is normal and still maintain your level of confidence is really hard for a young kid, especially for a young kid that is a control freak, wants to control everything, and he's not going to control everything.
"So I know, and I say that when I start training with Ben, he has more potential than I was thinking. He’s going to struggle and we need to understand how he likes to play also to put in our ideas.
"So everything, I think I'm quite relaxed with that. He is going to be our striker for the long term. But he's going to have these struggles and these bumps during the ride, and that is a normal thing in football."
Discussing the impact of former United players criticising in the media, Amorim responded: "Of course, nobody likes to hear, but he struggled a little bit, and that is a fact.
"So let's embrace that. It’s not personal, it’s not nothing. That is what I try to explain to the players. That is not personal. It's an opinion that is going to change in three weeks.
"Everything that is true today, in three weeks, could be a lie. So of course, it's hard to hear, but my advice to Ben is you are going to get used. And then it's going to be natural.
"We are going to help him and we are going to protect Ben because he works really hard and we want to succeed. So he's going to succeed."
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - AUGUST 09: (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) Benjamin Sesko of Manchester United poses with Director of Football Jason Wilcox after signing for the club at Carrington Training Ground on August 09, 2025 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Manchester United/Manchester United via Getty Images)
Wilcox with Sesko after his arrival from Germany.(Image: Manchester United, Manchester United via Getty Images)
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Amorim will decide whether Sesko retains his starting role against Tottenham this weekend. United are set to play Spurs for the first time since they were defeated in the Europa League final in Bilbao, after which Ange Postecoglou was sacked by Tottenham.
"It’s completely different. I said already, I'm really lucky to be here. And I know that is also important that someone to understand how lucky I am to have this opportunity," said Amorim about staying at United.
"If you see the game, I think we deserve to win. In the end, it doesn't matter. It's hard to see a coach that wins a European cup to go away and the other guy stays. But sometimes it's the difference of maybe in the future to win more important titles. So that's, I think, what Manchester United is thinking.
"Let's give time to the coach and see what's happening. And then we'll see. So I just want to say about that question, that I'm really lucky to have the support that I have in this club."
United will head into the November international break with 20 points if they win against Tottenham.
"Oh, what I think is that we can win any game. If we have this opportunities, let's make everything to win," said Amorim.
"Let's try to address every detail to try to win every game. I don't want to talk about the new goal. You said yourself that everything is so close [in the table], everything so close up, and everything's so close down.
"Three weeks can change everything. It changed everything. We had a completely different conversation four weeks ago. So let's focus on the next game, what we can do.
"I also agree that when you are one down, playing away, feeling in control of the game, knowing that you can be in second place near the top, we could start that second half in the different way.
"That I can agree and the players felt that and we talk about that during the week. So let's focus just winning Tottenham. Can we win Tottenham? I think we can. Let's do everything to win the next one."
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