Manchester United has made Ollie Watkins to their top objective in attack that could reunite him with Bryan Mbeumo after their success together in their Brentford days
Ollie Watkins owes a large part of his turnout to the collaboration he has forged with Bryan Mbeumo in Brentford, whereby the couple may now row at Manchester United while the club continues their summer recruitment.
Watkins remains in Aston Villa while Mbeumo recently made the switch to the Red Devils, but both men were part of a frightening trio back during their Brentford days when the bees sought a Premier League outfit.
Benrahma also said part of the attack, but it was only Mbeumo who stayed at Brentford for the long term. The objectives of Watkins saw Villa call while Benrahma went to West Ham and is now in Saudi Arabia.
The season they spent together in the championship scored the trio 59 times between them when Brentford made the play-off final. This year, Mbeumo has just had a career-best year in Brentford and Watkins, who endured a frustrating season in Villa Park, came up with 17 goals.
United now sees a movement for Watkins to further strengthen their attack and the Englishman previously admitted that he would like to continue to play with Mbeumo.
He said back in the Brentford days: “I feel that you are coming from the bottom, makes you hungry and you always strive for more, so I am not surprised that these two (Mbeumo and Benrahma) have been in the lower competitions and have worked their way to the top and hopefully we can keep going together.”
United is putting on their bid to sign a striker before the start of the new season with Watkins now their first choice target as reported by Mirror Football. The United bosses are of the opinion that a compromise character between £ 40 million £ 45 million can be agreed with Villa, which the English International has rated at £ 60 million.
In addition to Watkins, United keeps United at RB Leipzig's Benjamin Sesko situation at RB Leipzig, but the Bundesliga club wants about £ 70 million for him and Newcastle is the most likely destination The 22-year-old Slovenian because they weigh for Alexander Isak.
The Red Devils want a proven goal scorer and during the summer United have adopted a policy to sign players who are used to the Premier League with Mbeumo's signing after they also landed Matheus Cunha van Wolves.