Bryan Mbeumo to Tottenham transfer advantage over Man Utd emerges after £62.5m reminder

Tottenham have a number of reasons to be confident they can win the transfer battle for Bryan Mbeumo despite his preference being to join Manchester United.

With the manager situation uncertain for a number of weeks, Spurs may have lost out on certain targets while other Premier League clubs were also able to put in significant groundwork.

Rayan Cherki was one player linked with a move to north London, but he ended up joining Manchester City from Lyon.

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It was also made clear that Mbeumo was keen on a switch to Old Trafford from Brentford, snubbing Spurs and Newcastle United in the process. The decision by Tottenham to replace Ange Postecoglou with Thomas Frank, who has coached Mbeumo for the last few years, may have changed things though.

In the meantime, Bayern and Spurs met a compromise for Mathys Tel with the French attacker joining on a permanent basis for £30 million.

Despite bringing in a winger, the Lilywhites are still very much interested in Mbeumo.

Prior to the first summer window deadline, Ruben Amorim's side saw a bid rejected with another verbal offer made during negotiations knocked back. Brentford are holding out for £70m to sell.

In comparison to United,Tottenham are much more likely to meet that figure following on from winning the Europa League and thus qualifying for next season's Champions League.

Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Co. have also already sanctioned a big transfer with Matheus Cunha joining from Wolves in a £62.5m deal.

Though that was an early summer deal, there was some delay as United wanted to pay for his services over five years but they ultimately backed down and met Wolves' terms of three instalments over two seasons.

United trying to do that in the first place suggests that financially they are not in that strong of a position. The fact they also accepted what Wolves wanted means that some funds have already been committed elsewhere.

Spurs, and Frank in particular, now arguably face a race against time to convince Mbeumo of a move to north London. That is because later in the trading period United are likely to have more money available to them having sanctioned sales.

Alejandro Garnacho, Jadon Sancho, Antony and Marcus Rashford are all free to leave the club this summer with it entirely possible anywhere in the region of £150m is obtained. That would certainly give United the finances needed for Mbeumo.

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