{"id":220499,"date":"2025-06-28T05:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T05:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220499\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T05:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T05:21:09","slug":"man-uniteds-62-5m-bryan-mbeumo-offer-rejected-by-brentford-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220499\/","title":{"rendered":"Man United&#8217;s \u00a362.5m Bryan Mbeumo offer rejected by Brentford &#8211; sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"0446e7fd-7655-f17a-d282-8c401b808d1f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=337\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brentford<\/a> have told <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"6ebc2fd0-35d3-733b-5666-b75035a3bce9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester United<\/a> they will have to return with a larger offer if they want to sign <a data-player-guid=\"1a9bd2b3-66a0-53fd-3cae-0f4dbde6bb47\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/271170\/bryan-mbeumo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bryan Mbeumo<\/a> after rejecting an overall package worth \u00a362.5 million ($85.7 million), sources have told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>United have made Mbeumo a priority signing and have stepped up negotiations with Brentford in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/45581357\/transfer-window-weekly-liverpool-turn-hato-arsenal-make-moves\" class=\"img-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/r1443826_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/45582425\/soccer-transfers-darwin-nunez-marcus-rashford-jack-grealish-jadon-sandcho\" class=\"img-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/r1511118_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>Brentford, however, are holding out for more than \u00a362.5m &#8212; including add-ons &#8212; currently on the table, believing the forward&#8217;s value has increased significantly after hitting 20 <a data-league-guid=\"6949f3af-300c-35f1-beab-b95669eedd38\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/ENG.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a> goals last season.<\/p>\n<p>There are indications from Brentford that interested clubs will have to go beyond the \u00a365 million mark to agree a deal for the 25-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>United and Brentford are set to hold further talks, although United, according to sources, have insisted privately they will not be held to ransom.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Man United will have to return with an improved offer if they want to sign Brentford&#8217;s Bryan Mbeumo.\u00a0Ryan Pierse\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>There is money to spend to strengthen Ruben Amorim&#8217;s squad &#8212; even without European football next season &#8212; but sources have told ESPN they will remain &#8220;disciplined&#8221; in negotiations over transfer fees and wages.<\/p>\n<p>They have already signed <a data-player-guid=\"e23ba36a-2422-dcd8-38cb-0931d17443ed\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/259902\/matheus-cunha\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matheus Cunha<\/a> after triggering the \u00a362.5 million release clause in his contract at Wolves. Cunha scored 15 Premier League goals last season and, at 26, is older than Mbeumo.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the setback, United remain confident that Mbeumo wants to move to Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>There remains hope that a deal can be agreed, which would allow the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"b16f2c41-498c-75a3-8fb7-a95d418f4e08\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cameroon<\/a> international to join the squad for the start of preseason training on July 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brentford have told Manchester United they will have to return with a larger offer if they want to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-220499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114759315470672342","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220499","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=220499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}