Before Manchester United’s final pre-season friendly match against Fiorentina at Old Trafford, the club had a new player signing unveiling presentation where the club and fans welcomed their new signings Diego Leon, Mattheus Cunha, Bryan Mbeumo and newly confirmed striker signing Benjamin Šeško. As reported by David Ornstein from TheAthleticFC, on August 7, 2025 the 22-year-old Slovenian striker was to become a Man Utd player with deal to be the amount of €76.5m + €85.m in add-ons for his services. The arrival of the Slovenian international could be seen as the final piece to the puzzle to Man Utd’s summer transfer window plans to revamp their attack and too many United fans this transfer window might be too good to be true following the disaster that was the 2024/25 season.
Man Utd finished the 2024/25 season by 15th in the Premier League, the lowest ever position in the Premier League era, and they also managed to lose the UEFA Europa League final against fellow bottom half of the table strugglers Tottenham Hotspur who end their Premier League campaign in 17th. No trophies, no UEFA competitions and lowest league finish in the club’s Premier Leagues history and yet Man Utd have managed to acquire 3 exciting attacking signings worth around €227.5m and whose stats eclipse the underperforming attackers of Man Utd’s from the previous season. Going into the 2024/25 season Man Utd’s attacking options were Rasmus Højlund, Marcus Rashford, Joshua Zirkzee, Amad, Alejandro Garnacho and Antony with Bruno Fernandes Mason Mount and Christian Eriksen as the attacking midfield options. These 9 players collectively only managed to score 35 of Man Utd’s 44 Premier League goals in 38 games with the highest scorers among them being Amad and Bruno Fernandes with 8 goals and Alejandro Garnacho not too far behind with 6 goals.
Those are obviously unacceptable numbers for Man Utd players playing the England’s top flight league, most of Man Utd goal scoring was saved for the cup competitions like Europa League however the first priority for any club so be the success in the league you are playing which is why Man Utd wasted no time and spared no expense in signing 2 of the top performers of the 2024/25 season in Cunha and Mbeumo. Mattheus Cunha managed to score 15 Premier League, matching the record for the highest scoring Brazil in a single season, while Bryan Mbeumo managed to contributing an incredible 20 Premier League. Both players comfortably outperformed Man Utd’s top scorers and if you combine Cunha and Mbeumo’s numbers they match the 35 goals scored by 9 of Man Utd’s attackers. Now we bring in the addition of Benjamin Šeško who is a player that may have been playing in a different league but still, as striker, he manged to outscore all of Man Utd’s strikers who had a combined goal tally 11 goals. Šeško in his final season in the Bundesliga contributed 13 league goals for RB Leipzig and as mentioned earlier that goal tally outscored Højlund, Zirkzee and Rashford (who was phased out the team for 2 months and then left on loan to Aston Villa). If you add Šeško’s 13 league goals with Cunha and Mbeumo’s contributions you get a total of 48 league goals which more league goals than Man Utd scored throughout the entirety of the 2024/25 Premier League campaign.
INEOS and Man Utd have truly upgraded their attack for this upcoming season and it will be very interesting to see if these new attacking signings will live up to their previous performances and be able to handle the pressure of now very hefty price tags.
