{"id":11800,"date":"2025-07-21T21:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11800\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:47:08","slug":"bryan-mbeumo-transfer-from-brentford-to-manchester-united-134-million-deal-video-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11800\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Mbeumo transfer from Brentford to Manchester United, $134 million deal, video, Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroon winger Bryan Mbeumo said he \u201cgrew up wearing\u201d the Manchester United shirt after joining the club from Brentford on a deal until 2030, with an option for a further year.<\/p>\n<p>Mbeumo, 25, will reportedly cost the 20-time Premier League champions an initial \u00a365 million (AU$134 million) having scored 20 goals in 38 league games last season for the Bees.<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham, now managed by former Brentford boss Thomas Frank, were also chasing the France-born attacker before United\u2019s improved offer sealed the move.<\/p>\n<p>United\u2019s third bid was accepted last week.<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest football news, highlights and analysis delivered straight to your inbox with Fox Sports Sportmail. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/newsletter-sign-up?utm_source=FootballArticle&amp;utm_medium=TextLink&amp;utm_campaign=signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sign up now!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as I knew there was a chance to join Manchester United, I had to take the opportunity to sign for the club of my dreams,\u201d Mbeumo said in a United statement.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752977588_817_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team whose shirt I wore growing up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a massive club, with an incredible stadium and amazing fans, we are all really determined to challenge for the biggest trophies,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>United coach Ruben Amorim has signed two other players during this summer in an attempt to avoid a repeat of last season\u2019s catastrophic display.<\/p>\n<p>They lost to Tottenham in the Europa League final and a 15th-place finish in the top flight was their lowest since 1973-74.<\/p>\n<p>Wolves forward Matheus Cunha and teenage Paraguayan defender Diego Leon have also moved to Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p> Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee struggled as Amorim\u2019s main strikers last term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mentality is to always be better than I was yesterday,\u201d Mbeumo said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that I have the spirit and character to reach another level here learning from Ruben Amorim and playing alongside world-class players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brentford&#8217;s Bryan Mbeumo. AP Photo\/Scott Heppel, fileSource: AP<\/p>\n<p>Mbeumo blossomed in six years at Brentford, scoring 70 goals and providing 51 assists in 242 appearances in all competitions following his move from French club Troyes in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He helped the Bees win promotion to the Premier League in 2021 and was instrumental in their impressive 10th-place finish in 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted to have secured another one of our primary targets ahead of the pre-season tour,\u201d the Red Devils\u2019 director of football Jason Wilcox said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe experience in the US will be the perfect opportunity for Bryan to work with Ruben and his new teammates as we prepare for an exciting season ahead,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>United start their pre-season tour of the United States on Sunday by facing West Ham before their opening game of the new Premier League season against Arsenal on August 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameroon winger Bryan Mbeumo said he \u201cgrew up wearing\u201d the Manchester United shirt after joining the club from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,85,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-11800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}