{"id":280870,"date":"2025-07-21T20:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T20:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/280870\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T20:54:11","slug":"breaking-news-bryan-mbeumo-joins-manchester-united-in-club-record-sale-brentford-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/280870\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Bryan Mbeumo joins Manchester United in club-record sale | Brentford FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Mbeumo has joined Manchester United on a permanent transfer, in what is a club-record sale for the Bees. The forward leaves Brentford with 70 goals and 51 assists in 242 games. Only seven players in the club\u2019s history have played more games and scored more goals than Mbeumo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of everyone at Brentford, I would like to wish Bryan all the best for the future and thank him for his fantastic efforts over six seasons with us,&#8221; said director of football Phil Giles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBryan came to us as a teenager, and it has been an absolute pleasure for all of us here to watch him develop as a player and a person. Our fans have loved him, and he has been a part of some of our greatest days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is always a right time for a player to move on and, for Bryan, that time is now. He has the opportunity to go to one of the biggest clubs in the world, and we are very happy for him. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBryan will always be welcome back at the Gtech. We look forward to seeing him in September and whenever our paths cross in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mbeumo started his career with Troyes in his native France, making 89 appearances for the club\u2019s first team and reserve team combined, latterly in Ligue 2. <\/p>\n<p>He moved to England in August 2019, two days shy of his 20th birthday, to join Brentford on a five-year contract during the final season at Griffin Park.<\/p>\n<p>He enjoyed a storming first season in England, scoring 16 goals and providing eight assists as he made up one-third of the fabled \u2018BMW\u2019 front three, which comprised of Sa\u00efd Benrahma, Mbeumo and Ollie Watkins.<\/p>\n<p>Both Watkins and Benrahma left for pastures new after the Bees lost the Championship play-off final at Wembley in 2020, but Mbeumo remained and played a key role in promotion to the Premier League at the second time of asking with eight league goals and 12 assists.<\/p>\n<p>In the club\u2019s first season in the top flight, Mbeumo played 35 Premier League games in 2021\/22, registering 11 goal contributions. <\/p>\n<p>During the 2022\/23 campaign, he featured in every one of Brentford\u2019s league games, contributing greatly to a ninth-place finish.<\/p>\n<p>The forward was then named in the Cameroon squad for the 2022 World Cup, where he started all three of their Group G matches.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Every Bryan Mbeumo <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/premierleague?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@premierleague<\/a> goal last season <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fKmaW3XoOm\">pic.twitter.com\/fKmaW3XoOm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brentford FC (@BrentfordFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrentfordFC\/status\/1935702460082868316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mbeumo made a typically impressive start to the 2023\/24 term, with seven goals and three assists by the start of December, before an ankle injury that required surgery kept him out of action until the middle of March. <\/p>\n<p>He returned to the starting line-up in April 2024, scoring two goals and assisting three more across the final seven games.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2024\/25 season, Mbeumo hit new heights, scoring 20 Premier League goals &#8211; becoming just the second player to do so after Ivan Toney &#8211; and registering eight assists. <\/p>\n<p>He also won the club&#8217;s Goal of the Season award for his volley against Tottenham Hotspur, which came after just 30 seconds.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Mbeumo has joined Manchester United on a permanent transfer, in what is a club-record sale for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-280870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114893217000179156","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280870","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=280870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}