{"id":215059,"date":"2025-06-26T05:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/215059\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T05:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:23:08","slug":"man-utd-bryan-mbeumo-has-already-done-something-marcus-rashford-never-did-football-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/215059\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd: Bryan Mbeumo has already done something Marcus Rashford never did | Football | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the dust settles on a season in which Manchester United<\/a> were as hopeless in the final third as they have ever been, the club’s early summer strategy is encouraging. United scored 44 times in 38 Premier League<\/a> games last season, a tally only superior to Everton<\/a> and the three comfortably relegated teams.<\/p>\n

In starting his summer business by recruiting Matheus Cunha<\/a> from Wolves, Ruben Amorim<\/a> is bringing 15 goals to his ranks. If you add Bryan Mbeumo<\/a> to the mix? Well, that’s a combined 35 goals, just nine shy of United’s tally as a club. It would surely be impossible to be as toothless next season.<\/p>\n

Brentford have good reason to drag their heels and demand a fee similar to the \u00a362.5million that United paid for Cunha if they are to part ways with Mbeumo.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old forward was only outscored by three players in the Premier League last season – Mohamed Salah<\/a> (29), Alexander Isak (23), and Erling Haaland<\/a> (20).<\/p>\n

You could delve further and raise the fact that Mbeumo was also one of just four players to have 70-plus shots and create 70-plus chances.<\/p>\n

His impending teammate Bruno Fernandes<\/a>, Player of the Season Salah, and Cole Palmer<\/a> represent impressive company.<\/p>\n

Let’s stick to goals, though. Mbeumo notched up 20 of them – as well as eight assists – which almost made up a third of Brentford’s 66 on their way to a top-half finish.<\/p>\n

You would only have to watch their respective performances in the last couple of seasons to suggest that Cunha and Mbeumo are both upgrades on Marcus Rashford.<\/p>\n

In truth, they are upgrades on the exiled quartet who United are desperate to offload in the coming weeks – Rashford, Antony, Jadon Sancho and Alejandro Garnacho.<\/p>\n

The former has been the Red Devils’ poster boy for most of his decade in the senior squad, though. Yet, he has never achieved a season like Mbeumo’s 2024\/25.<\/p>\n

Rashford has gone closest to 20 Premier League goals when he recorded 17 in the 19\/20 and 22\/23 campaigns.<\/p>\n

Apart from that, he doesn’t boast a record that suggests his reputation as an untouchable talent was warranted before Amorim thought otherwise.<\/p>\n

Rashford’s last four league campaigns have produced six, seven, 17 and four goals.<\/p>\n

In the same seasons, Mbeumo managed 20, four and nine twice. It’s a higher tally in a team that finished 12, 16 and 21 points behind United in the three campaigns before last term’s nightmare at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n

It isn’t out of pocket whatsoever to suggest that not only could Mbeumo represent an upgrade, but he could be more worthy of the ‘poster boy’ title than Rashford ever was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the dust settles on a season in which Manchester United were as hopeless in the final third…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64922,37199,12031,25283,57002,423,103,101,8558,79,11947,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-215059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-brentford-fc","9":"tag-bryan-mbeumo","10":"tag-football-section","11":"tag-man-utd-news","12":"tag-man-utd-transfer-news","13":"tag-manchester-united-fc","14":"tag-marcus-rashford","15":"tag-premier-league","16":"tag-sport-section","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-transfer-news-section","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114747998548223085","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}