Even though Tottenham Hotspur defeated Manchester United 1-0 in Bilbao to capture the Europa League title, they are getting absolutey whalloped by the Red Devils on the transfer market. Whereas Tottenham have yet to make an approach for even one key targets, Man United have already sewn up one of the best players in the Premier League in Matheus Cunha and are close to bringing in another in Brentford's Bryan Mbeumo on the right wing.
Manchester United underperformed woefully in the 2024/25 Premier League season, finishing a historically awful 16th, but they have taken backing Ruben Amorim seriously after reaching the Europa League Final, maximizing the revenue streams they have on the transfer market.
Tottenham, meanwhile, are sitting complacently and aren't even rewarding Ange Postecoglou with the basic decency of knowing where his family should be living for the remainder of 2025 - let alone what their own club should be doing on the transfer market.
And nothing further highlights the sheer incompetence of Daniel Levy and the Tottenham front office than the Bryan Mbeumo transfer situation. Here is the biggest attacking breakout star of the 2024/25 Premier League season - a right winger who scored 20 goals and 7 assists for freaking Brentford - who could be a legitimate target for Tottenham.
Bryan Mbeumo could join Manchester United for less than expected
Instead, Spurs have done nothing to sign the 25-year-old, and he has already made it clear that he prefers Manchester United to them. And now, The Athletic's David Ornstein is reporting that Man United have gone ahead and submitted an initial bid to Brentford worth just 45 million pounds with an additional 10 million pounds in bonuses.
That offer may not be accepted by Brentford, so that may not be the final fee Manchester United pay for Mbeumo. But it could very well be the deal that gets done, and, at the very least, we can say right now that the Red Devils are the overwhelming favorites to sign the breakout goal-scoring winger whereas Tottenham aren't even in the picture.
On top of that, 55 million pounds for one of the best players of the 2024/25 Premier League season is not a very significant investment at all. Here's the kicker and what should make Tottenham fans absolutely livid at their club. A 55 million pound Mbeumo transfer for Man United would be cheaper than what Tottenham paid for either Dominic Solanke and Richarlison, both of whom are older and less productive than the player Manchester United are about to sign.
It's yet another transfer blow and yet another low for chairman Daniel Levy, who continues to exude record levels of incompetence to the rest of the Premier League. Even when Spurs are major winners as Europa League champions, Levy and Levy alone comes across as an abject loser, because whereas his team kicked Man United's behinds on the pitch, Levy is getting it absolutely handed to him off the pitch by the Red Devils in this Mbeumo transfer battle - one of the biggest transfer battles of the Premier League offseason in 2025.