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Manchester United are on the cusp of signing Brentford’s Bryan Mbeumo.
The saga has lasted for weeks however there was a breakthrough on Friday when United’s £71 million bid was lastly accepted by the Bees.
The Cameroonian had the primary a part of his medical on Saturday and reportedly accomplished his exams yesterday.
United’s stars are clearly excited by the impression he could make on the membership as Leny Yoro has already claimed to be very proud of the deal and expressed how a lot he was trying ahead to enjoying with him.
Triple menace
The Athletic have gone into element outlining simply how a profitable signing Mbeumo might be for the Crimson Devils.
The American outlet defined that Liverpool have discovered success in recent times by analysing statistics and assessing the worth gamers carry to attacking strikes.
The premise is, “a participant can solely rating a purpose in the event that they shoot. However capturing typically ends a spell of possession, and a workforce can solely rating if they’ve the ball. Generally it’s extra advantageous to play an additional go or beat an opponent with a dribble. Ideally, your greatest attacking gamers ought to be able to doing all three of these issues.”
United firmly consider they’ve discovered this uncommon skillset in Mbeumo.
Mbeumo’s statistics
The Athletic state that “in keeping with StatsBomb’s On-Ball Worth (OBV) metric — solely Salah added extra worth to his workforce’s assaults final season than United’s new £65million man.”
United will hope he can match 20 Premier League objectives from final season however some followers have identified that he outperformed his xG final season.
“But, final season was really a down yr on the underlying metrics for the 25-year-old, together with his 2.08 photographs and 0.20 non-penalty xG per 90 minutes being his lowest totals since changing into a Premier League participant.” Due to this fact, there may be nonetheless important scope for him to enhance his purpose contributions.
Mbeumo’s effectivity
United had been typically wasteful final season in possession and in entrance of purpose however Mbeumo ought to assist treatment this.
The Athletic declare that “Mbeumo made up for that by rating much better amongst his friends on value-added metrics, the place his execution of photographs helped flip low-quality possibilities into objectives, rating among the many 89th percentile of attacking midfielders and wingers within the Premier League.”
Solely three gamers within the league added extra worth to assaults than Mbeumo: Fernandes, Salah and his Brentford team-mate Mikkel Damsgaard. In actuality, he was unfortunate to not have added a couple of extra assists to his general whole of 9 in all competitions.
Dribbling menace
Final season, most of United’s dribbling menace got here from Amad. The signing of Matheus Cunha has additionally added extra firepower on this division and Mbeumo will theoretically solely bolster this menace extra.
The outlet states that “Mbeumo ranked extremely for including worth to Brentford’s assaults by his dribbling final season, with Cunha not far behind for Wolves.”
All in all, Mbeumo is a Premier League confirmed, “well-rounded” attacking menace who ought to assist United revolutionise their flailing assault.
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