Man Utd in talks for £60m “monster”

Manchester United misplaced for the sixteenth time within the Premier League this season once they have been overwhelmed 4-3 by Brentford away from residence on the weekend.

The Pink Devils have endured a dismal home marketing campaign, beneath each Erik ten Hag and Ruben Amorim, and are simply two factors forward of seventeenth within the desk.

There’s the mitigation of their place within the semi-finals of the Europa League, although, and that will have had an affect on the supervisor’s crew choice for this match, because the likes of Chido Obi Martin, Tyler Fredricson, and Harry Amass have been named within the beginning XI.

Obi Martin, 17, made his full Premier League debut and was given the complete 90 minutes by Amorim, however was, sadly, unable to seek out the again of the online.

In the meantime, Brentford’s forwards, Yoane Wissa, Kevin Schade, and Bryan Mbeumo caught the attention in a superb win for the Bees in opposition to Manchester United on Sunday.

Mbeumo, specifically, is a participant who’s reportedly of curiosity to the membership. It was not too long ago claimed that the Brentford star and Wolves ahead Matheus Cunha are each targets for the upcoming summer season switch window.

Why Mbeumo and Cunha are engaging targets for Manchester United

The headline is that each Mbeumo and Cunha are confirmed Premier League performers who’ve proven that they’ll contribute with targets and assists at that stage on a constant foundation.

This means that they’d be extra more likely to hit the bottom operating and achieve success signings for Manchester United in comparison with a signing from overseas with no prior expertise of the English top-flight.

Mbeumo has produced 18 targets and 7 assists in 39 appearances in all competitions for Brentford to date this season, which speaks to the objective menace that he can present on the high finish of the pitch.

The Cameroon worldwide has scored eight or extra targets in every of the previous 4 seasons in all competitions because the Bees have been promoted to the top-flight.

In the meantime, Cunha has caught the attention together with his performances for Wolves in all competitions through the 2024/25 marketing campaign, as he has showcased his means to attain and create targets at a formidable price.

As you may see within the desk above, the Brazil worldwide has racked up 17 targets and 6 assists for the Outdated Gold, together with 15 targets within the Premier League.

These statistics present why Cunha and Mbeumo are each engaging choices for United this summer season as a result of they’ve each supplied their respective groups with loads of targets and assists this season.

Nonetheless, the Pink Devils are additionally reportedly desirous about an much more prolific ahead from overseas who might are available in to bolster the membership’s attacking choices.

In response to The Boot Room, Manchester United are one in every of quite a lot of golf equipment lining up a transfer for RB Leipzig centre-forward Benjamin Sesko forward of the summer season switch window.

The report claims that fellow Premier League sides Liverpool, Arsenal, and Chelsea are additionally preserving tabs on the Slovenian marksman, and that that they had scouts in attendance to look at him rating in opposition to Bayern Munich on the weekend.

It states {that a} transfer to England to play within the Premier League is essentially the most ‘possible’ end result for the Leipzig sensation this summer season, as his representatives are presently in talks with a number of golf equipment.

The Boot Room provides that Manchester United and Newcastle United are in common contact with the participant’s brokers forward of a possible swoop for his providers within the coming months.

INEOS should push to win the race for Sesko, who’s reportedly valued at £60m by Leipzig, as a result of he’s much more prolific than Cunha and Mbeumo and might be a superb addition to Amorim’s squad.

Why Manchester United ought to signal Benjamin Sesko

Firstly, the Slovenia worldwide is just 21 and would are available in as a long-term choice for the Portuguese head coach, as a participant who has loads of time left to develop and enhance.

He’s 4 years youthful than each Mbeumo and Cunha, who’re each 25, and this implies that he has extra scope to develop and progress as a footballer throughout his time at Outdated Trafford, while additionally having the standard to supply targets within the short-term.

The 21-year-old marksman has additionally outscored the Brentford and Wolves forwards with a return of 21 targets in 43 appearances in all competitions for Leipzig this season, which reveals that he’s extra prolific within the ultimate third.

Sesko, who was as soon as dubbed a “monster” by analyst Ben Mattinson, has been in superb kind for Leipzig in each the Bundesliga and the Champions League, showcasing his deadly ending on the high stage.

As you may see within the desk above, the £60m-rated ‘monster’ has been extremely medical in these two competitions, with 17 targets from between 13 and 14 Anticipated Objectives.

Sesko has confirmed that he is aware of easy methods to discover the again of the online on the European stage and in one in every of Europe’s main leagues, in addition to scoring 4 targets within the DFB Pokal, and this implies that United can be signing a striker who’s in-form and in a position to make an on the spot affect at Outdated Trafford.

In fact, he has not performed within the Premier League, or in England in any respect, and that might make him a riskier addition than Mbeumo or Cunha, who’re presently thriving within the division.

However his goalscoring report throughout all competitions and his age profile counsel that it will be a high-risk, high-reward, signing for the Pink Devils, which is why they need to take a chance on him and try and win the race for the spectacular younger ahead in the summertime switch window.