Manchester United have made an improved bid for the Brentford forward Bryan Mbeumo. The offer is worth up to £70m, with £65m guaranteed and the rest add-ons.
Ruben Amorim is eager to sign Mbeumo, who has indicated to Brentford he would like to join United, but Sir Jim Ratcliffe is eager not to pay over the odds. The London club have turned down at least one bid for Mbeumo from United and have demanded about £70m for a player who scored 20 Premier League goals last season.
United hope to make Mbeumo their third signing of the summer, after the Brazilian forward Matheus Cunha and the Paraguayan full-back Diego León. They fly to the United States for a tour next week and Amorim wants Mbeumo as part of the squad that travels, to give the Cameroon international as much time as possible to integrate.
United also hold an interest in Chelsea’s Nicolas Jackson as they seek a central forward. Five players who will not be part of the tour are Marcus Rashford, Alejandro Garnacho, Antony, Jadon Sancho and Tyrell Malacia, who want to leave and are not part of team training. United intend to sell them to raise funds for their summer transfer business.
Manchester City have completed the signing of the 18-year-old midfielder Sverre Nypan from Rosenborg. The Norway Under-21 international, who is understood to have cost €14.6m (£12.6m), became Rosenborg’s youngest player at 15 years and 322 days when starting against Jerv on 6 November 2022.
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Nypan is City’s fifth summer signing, after Tijjani Reijnders, Rayan Aït-Nouri, Rayan Cherki and Marcus Bettinelli. “There is already a special connection between Norway and Manchester City through Erling Haaland and Oscar Bobb,” Nypan said, “and I am very proud to have become the latest Norwegian player to have joined the club.”
