Benjamin Šeško and Matheus Cunha: Leipzig and Wolves, United at last

Different clubs, different stories

Few pairings feel less natural on paper. Šeško is the Slovenian battering ram who came through Red Bull Salzburg's academy system, was loaned out to feeder club FC Liefering to learn his trade, and then spent two prolific seasons at RB Leipzig, scoring 39 goals in 87 appearances and becoming the club's top scorer in 2024–25. He is, by reputation, a Bundesliga product through and through, a 1.95m penalty-box predator compared by scouts to Zlatan Ibrahimović.

Cunha's path runs almost entirely through different leagues. After starting out at Coritiba in Brazil, he crossed to Swiss side Sion as a teenager, drifted through RB Leipzig and Hertha BSC in Germany without quite making his name, and only found his level at Atlético Madrid and then, decisively, at Wolverhampton Wanderers. It was at Molineux that Cunha became a genuine Premier League force: a Players' Player of the Season, a hat-trick scorer at Stamford Bridge, and the man whose surfing-style celebration became his trademark after a string of vital goals for a club battling relegation trouble.

That Cunha also had a brief, unheralded stint at RB Leipzig years before Šeško arrived there is itself a quirk of the record books, two Manchester United teammates both once wore the same German shirt, at different points, for different reasons, with different outcomes. For Šeško it was a launchpad; for Cunha, a false start on the way somewhere else entirely.

Arriving at Old Trafford, together

The pairing clicked into place in the summer of 2025. Manchester United paid an initial €76.5 million to bring Šeško from Leipzig, making him their first-ever Slovenian player, while Cunha arrived for a reported £62.5 million after completing his rise from loanee to talisman at Wolves. Both men made their United debuts in the same fixture, the 1–0 opening-day defeat to Arsenal, and both endured the bumps that come with adapting to a new project under pressure.

Šeško's first half-season was sluggish, just two goals in 16 appearances before a managerial change lifted his form; he finished the campaign as United's joint top scorer in the league. Cunha, meanwhile, found his moment on the biggest stage, scoring the winner away at Arsenal in January 2026, United's first league win at the Emirates since 2017, continuing the knack for big, momentum-shifting goals he'd shown at Wolves.

Why it still feels strange

Neither man arrived at United with a reputation built in Manchester, or even really in England beyond one club apiece. Šeško's identity was forged in Austria and Germany; Cunha's was forged, after some false starts abroad, specifically in Wolves' colours. That two players so thoroughly associated with RB Leipzig and Wolverhampton Wanderers should end up sharing a front line at Old Trafford is the kind of overlap that only becomes obvious once you look it up, a reminder that a transfer window can scramble even the clearest club identities, at least for a season.