{"id":15392,"date":"2025-06-05T01:05:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T01:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/manchester-united-set-to-open-talks-with-brentford-over-deal-for-bryan-mbeumo\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T01:05:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T01:05:28","slug":"manchester-united-set-to-open-talks-with-brentford-over-deal-for-bryan-mbeumo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/manchester-united-set-to-open-talks-with-brentford-over-deal-for-bryan-mbeumo\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United set to open talks with Brentford over deal for Bryan Mbeumo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Manchester United are expected to open talks with Brentford over striker Bryan Mbeumo.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">United head coach Ruben Amorim is prioritising signing additional striking firepower this summer to bolster his misfiring attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Old Trafford side scored only 44 Premier League goals last season &#8211; the fifth lowest tally in the league &#8211; with big-money signings Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee managing only four and three respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wolves forward Matheus Cunha has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/clyr869q022o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">already agreed a deal<\/a> with United and will complete his move to Old Trafford once his international commitments with Brazil are over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">United feel confident in making a move for Cameroon international Mbeumo, 25, who scored 20 times for the Bees in the league last season, after receiving indications they are his first choice for a move this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is understood there is no release clause in Mbeumo&#8217;s contract, which still has a year left to run, although there is the option to extend it by another year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Like many leading players, including United goalkeeper Andre Onana, he has been left out of the squad for his nation&#8217;s upcoming friendlies against Uganda and Equatorial Guinea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While Mbeumo, who signed from French club Troyes in 2019, is not a natural number nine, he is viewed as being versatile, dynamic, powerful and fast, and Amorim wants flexible players.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cp854jx8lg6o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United are expected to open talks with Brentford over striker Bryan Mbeumo. United head coach Ruben Amorim is prioritising signing additional striking firepower this summer to bolster his misfiring attack. The Old Trafford side scored only 44 Premier League goals last season &#8211; the fifth lowest tally in the league &#8211; with big-money signings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15394,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15392\/revisions\/15394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}