Manchester United’s Mbeumo push stalls after Brentford raise price towards £70m

Bryan Mbeumo’s contract expires next summer but Brentford hold an option to extend it by a year. Photograph: Lee Parker/CameraSport/Getty Images

Manchester United’s efforts to buy Bryan Mbeumo have stalled after Brentford raised their valuation to closer to £70m, with Sir Jim Ratcliffe intent on not being pushed into paying more than his club’s £65m valuation of the forward.

Mbeumo has told Brentford he wants to join United, and at the end of June Ratcliffe and Jason Wilcox, United’s director of football, believed a £65m package would land the 25-year-old. Brentford also privately indicated a medical was expected imminently.