{"id":181019,"date":"2025-09-30T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181019\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:00:09","slug":"bryan-mbeumo-exclusive-manchester-united-forward-says-players-need-to-take-responsibility-for-poor-results-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181019\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Mbeumo exclusive: Manchester United forward says players need to take responsibility for poor results | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United forward Bryan Mbeumo admits the players &#8220;need to take responsibility&#8221; for their poor start to the season, which has put head coach Ruben Amorim under serious pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Man Utd have only won twice this season, with their 3-1 loss at Brentford leaving them 14th in the Premier League table.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting down with Sky Sports News, Mbeumo, who joined United in the summer from Brentford in a deal worth up to \u00a371m, reflected on Saturday&#8217;s disappointing loss to his former club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sdc-site-video__accessibility-message\" data-role=\"accessibility-message\">Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/skysports-carra-man-utd_7036538.jpg\" alt=\"This Has To End man united \"  aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"sdc-site-video__poster-img excluded-image\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video-poster\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              Jamie Carragher and Duncan Ferguson break down Ruben Amorim&#8217;s time at Manchester United<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously disappointed with the result, I had a warm welcome back from the fans and I will never forget that,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think everyone in the team needs to take responsibility. When you play in a club this big, everyone needs to know what to do &#8211; as a team, we need to do better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mbeumo has a unique perspective of the situation, having seen the noise outside of United and now witnessing it on the inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sdc-site-video__accessibility-message\" data-role=\"accessibility-message\">Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/skysports-neville-man-utd_7035356.jpg\" alt=\"Neville on Man Utd\"  aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"sdc-site-video__poster-img excluded-image\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video-poster\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              Speaking on the Gary Neville podcast, the former Manchester United defender gives a scathing assessment of United&#8217;s current woes <\/p>\n<p>The scrutiny has recently come from all directions. From former captains Wayne Rooney and Gary Neville to their away fans demanding them to &#8216;attack, attack, attack&#8217; against Brentford in a lacklustre performance.<\/p>\n<p>Mbeumo said: &#8220;Obviously it&#8217;s different, it&#8217;s not the same, but the only thing we want to be focused on is ourselves, we just try to listen to what&#8217;s going on inside.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not that hard [to block the noise out], obviously, the main thing we see is on social media, so it&#8217;s just not going on there much, and you just have to stay focused on your own things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mbeumo &#8216;excited&#8217; by being part of attacking trio<\/p>\n<p>For all of the negativity that seems to surround Man Utd at this present time, there was a moment at the weekend that Amorim and United fans had been waiting for.<\/p>\n<p>That was the sight of summer signings Benjamin Sesko, Matheus Cunha and Mbeumo starting a Premier League game together for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sdc-site-video__accessibility-message\" data-role=\"accessibility-message\">Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/skysports-brentford-man-utd_7033455.jpg\" alt=\"Brentford vs Man Utd - highlights\"  aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"sdc-site-video__poster-img excluded-image\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video-poster\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              Highlights from Brentford&#8217;s match against Manchester United in the Premier League<\/p>\n<p>United spent over \u00a3200m on their new attacking trio, and now the focus will be on seeing how quickly they can click to catapult the team up the table.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s exciting, because we get to learn to play with new players and it&#8217;s always challenging, but that&#8217;s what we like as footballers,&#8221; Mbeumo said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course it will improve, we haven&#8217;t played a lot together, so there are certain things that we&#8217;re going to improve, and there are different types of players, but it&#8217;s good to be with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of Mbeumo&#8217;s other team-mates is Bruno Fernandes, who has had a rollercoaster of a season himself.<\/p>\n<p>He scored the crucial winning penalty against Burnley but then missed spot-kicks against Fulham and Brentford &#8211; and although the United captain has often had to front up to criticism of his side, Mbeumo agreed to the idea that his team-mates may need to support their skipper in these difficult moments as well.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old said: &#8220;It&#8217;s important to support him because this is what he&#8217;s doing every time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s normal for us to carry him as well sometimes because he gives us a lot, and it&#8217;s good for him to have us as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United forward Bryan Mbeumo admits the players &#8220;need to take responsibility&#8221; for their poor start to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-181019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}