Chelsea have been resurgent in the 2024/25 Premier League season, and arguably no club has improved its quality of play this season more than the Blues, who are favorites to secure a top-four place and return to the Champions League.
It’s a competition Chelsea won outright before Todd Boehly took over and turned the club upside down with haphazard and jaw-droppingly expensive transfers. But finally, some of those transfers are starting to pay dividends for the Blues.
Chelsea have a quality Premier League striker in Nicolas Jackson in front of one of the league’s best players in playmaker Cole Palmer, but they are still one or two attacking pieces away from truly contending for the league title again.
Benjamin Sesko could be close to an exit this summer
Benjamin Sesko, who is also wanted by London rivals Arsenal, has been near the top of the Chelsea wishlist at the striker position over the past several months. RB Leipzig resisted selling him last summer, but in 2025, the Slovenian star could finally be available.
According to a report from The Mirror, if RB Leipzig’s elimination from the Champions League holds true for their Bundesliga results and they miss out on the Champions League entirely for the 2025/26 season, Sesko is not expected to stay with the Red Bull-owned club next season.
Therefore, he could be signed, perhaps even for less than market value, by a top Premier League club like Chelsea or Arsenal in summer 2025. Sesko has the kind of physicality and finishing prowess that Jackson doesn’t, and the 21-year-old just might be the best young striker at finishing off chances.
He has a rocket of a boot and a towering presence in the box with his head. Sesko has 10 goals this season and is underrated in the other aspects of his game, too, with 4 assists and 1.2 dribbles completed per game.
With Leipzig currently sixth in the Bundesliga, the reality of Marco Rose’s poor management at the club may doom them to losing their most valuable transfer asset, and Chelsea will be licking their chops to have an entirely different profile up top.
Chelsea might be a 30-goal, sharpshooter away from winning the Premier League, and Sesko has that kind of long-term upside. Jackson could then slot in as a speedier striker with more range to drift outside, potentially even settling in the lineup in some two-striker formations with Sesko, depending on the matchup at hand.
Sesko is an exciting transfer target who can make any top team in the Premier League better.
