According to sources who spoke to Football Insider, Manchester United is certain that an agreement to purchase Bryan Mbeumo from Brentford will be reached shortly. On the most recent episode of Football Insider’s Inside Track podcast, senior journalist Pete O’Rourke discussed what he has learned from his sources on Man United’s interest in the Cameroonian forward.
Since they successfully signed Wolves’ Matheus Cunha for £62.5 million this summer, Mbeumo has been United’s top priority in the transfer window, but they have not yet been able to match Brentford’s comparable asking price.
Brentford turned down Man United’s most recent offer of £60 million last month as the Bees continue to demand a guaranteed sum closer to £65 million, but according to Football Insider sources, United isn’t yet panicking.
Instead, sources told Football Insider that United still hopes to sign Mbeumo before the start of the new season and that they will probably work out a deal with Brentford for between £62 and £63 million.
Man Utd transfer takes fresh twist on Mbeumo transfer
We are forced to continue acting as though anything is happening with Bryan Mbeumo’s future because there is absolutely no real progress on the Rashford front.
Since it is well known that the player wants to join Manchester United, but the fee negotiations with Brentford are drawn out and often private, it is obviously rather challenging.
However, if you search diligently and badly enough, you can find updates. For example, the Daily Mirror website claims that the transfer has “taken a fresh twist as Brentford receives a new bid.”
It is really regrettable that the headline suggests that the “new bid” for Mbeumo is from Manchester United, but in reality, it is from Nottingham Forest for Yoane Wissa.
Does Forest’s bid of around £30 million, less than Brentford’s asking price for Wissa, really represent a “new twist” on Manchester United’s pursuit of Mbeumo? No. Man United, who are far closer to reaching a negotiating agreement, benefit more from it, if anything. But, of course, yeah, if you have to act as though something is taking place at Old Trafford.
