{"id":6275,"date":"2025-07-18T19:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6275\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T19:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:52:10","slug":"manchester-united-confirmed-squad-vs-leeds-as-debuts-planned-after-71m-bryan-mbeumo-deal-struck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6275\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United confirmed squad vs Leeds as debuts planned after \u00a371m Bryan Mbeumo deal struck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cunha is part of the 29-man squad for the game in Stockholm, which kicks off United\u2019s pre-season before their tour to the US.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow new signing Diego Leon is also part of the travelling party, who flew out on Friday, after arriving this summer from Paraguayan side Cerro Porteno.<\/p>\n<p>The squad does not include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/andre-onana\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andre Onana<\/a> and Joshua Zirkzee, who have both stayed at home due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United have described their injuries as \u201csmall issues\u201d and they are expected to join the squad for the tour to the US later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Several players in the squad for Saturday\u2019s friendly with Leeds will be wearing new shirt numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Cunha, who cost United over \u00a360million, will wear the No10 shirt and fellow newcomer Leon has taken the No30.<\/p>\n<p>Right-back Diogo Dalot is United\u2019s new No2, while Chido Obi has taken No32 and Tyler Fredricson No33.<\/p>\n<p>United will be debuting their new away kit against Leeds, which precedes further friendlies against West Ham, Bournemouth, Everton and Fiorentina.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United travelling squad in full<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeepers: Altay Bayindir, Tom Heaton, Dermot Mee.<\/p>\n<p>Defenders: Diogo Dalot, Noussair Mazraoui, Matthijs de Ligt, Harry Maguire, Patrick Chinazaekpere Dorgu, Leny Yoro, Luke Shaw, Ayden Heaven, Diego Leon, Tyler Fredricson, Reece Munro, Godwill Kukonki.<\/p>\n<p>Midfielders: Mason Mount, Bruno Fernandes, Casemiro, Manuel Ugarte, Kobbie Mainoo, Jack Fletcher, Sekou Kone, Toby Collyer.<\/p>\n<p>Forwards: Rasmus Hojlund, Matheus Cunha, Amad, Chido Obi, Ethan Williams, Bendito Mantato<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cunha is part of the 29-man squad for the game in Stockholm, which kicks off United\u2019s pre-season before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[6990,6991,49,48,6988,6989,561,82],"class_list":["post-6275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-andre-onana","tag-bryan-mbeumo","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-leeds","tag-matheus-cunha","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275","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=6275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}