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His former team Brentford were not scheduled to report back for training until a week after United’s players, and so the 25-year-old stayed mainly in the gym rather than get involved in his new club’s team sessions.<\/p>\n
It explains why he is behind the rest of Ruben Amorim’s squad in fitness terms and was not involved in Saturday’s victory over West Ham<\/a> at the MetLife Stadium.<\/p>\n Amorim has already said Mbeumo will also sit out Wednesday’s encounter with Bournemouth in Chicago.<\/p>\n However, the forward may be involved in the final match of the Premier League Summer Series against Everton in Atlanta on 3 August.<\/p>\n Mbeumo is unfazed by having to wait to make his United debut.<\/p>\n “My first aim is to make sure I’m ready for the start of the season, so I’ll keep working hard,” he said.<\/p>\n That opening-weekend encounter with Arsenal at Old Trafford is followed by a trip to Fulham.<\/p>\n While United do have a good record at Craven Cottage, it is the type of test that has repeatedly proved beyond them over the past few years.<\/p>\n And Mbeumo’s old side Brentford have proved particularly difficult opponents, winning two and drawing one of their last three meetings at the Gtech Community Stadium. <\/p>\n Mbeumo scored in the first of those games, setting the seal on a 4-0 victory in August 2022<\/a> that proved the trigger for United’s transfer window panic and resulted in them spending \u00a3155m to bring Casemiro<\/a> and Antony<\/a> to the club before that summer’s transfer window closed..<\/p>\n It is that profligacy United are trying to correct now, led by chief executive Omar Berrada and technical director Jason Wilcox.<\/p>\n