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Man Utd motion Brazilian planetary guardant connected five-year woody arsenic manager Ruben Amorim makes archetypal large move.
Published On 12 Jun 2025
Manchester United person completed the signing of Brazil planetary Matheus Cunha from Wolverhampton Wanderers arsenic the fallen Premier League giants statesman their rebuild
The 26-year-old forward, who has scored erstwhile successful 15 appearances for Brazil, signed a five-year declaration to 2030 astatine Old Trafford with the enactment of a further 12 months, the nine said connected Thursday.
United paid a reported 62.5 cardinal pounds ($84m) to their chap English top-flight nine for Cunha.
United manager Ruben Amorim is expected to overhaul his squad aft a woeful season, and Cunha’s is the archetypal large transportation for the Portuguese since helium replaced Erik 10 Hag successful November.
Cunha scored 17 goals for Wolves past play portion the United onslaught had the 5th worst scoring grounds successful the Premier League past term.
“Ever since I was a kid successful Brazil watching Premier League games connected TV astatine my grandmother’s house, United was my favourite English team, and I dreamed of wearing the reddish shirt,” Cunha said.
“All my absorption is present connected moving hard to go a invaluable portion of the squad and helping get this nine backmost to the top.”
Brazilian nationalist squad players Matheus Cunha, left, and Vinicius Junior, right, bid earlier their June 5, 2025, World Cup qualifier against Ecuador [Sebastiao Moreira/EPA]United were 15th successful the league standings, their worst presumption since the Premier League epoch began successful 1992. It besides had its astir losses successful a Premier League play and recorded its lowest points total.
The associated grounds 20-time English champions person gone 12 years without the rubric since past winning it successful erstwhile manager Alex Ferguson’s last play successful 2013.
“Bringing successful Matheus was 1 of our main priorities for this summer, truthful we are delighted to person completed his signing truthful aboriginal successful the window,” said Jason Wilcox, United manager of football.
“He has proved his quality to win successful the Premier League arsenic 1 of the astir breathtaking and productive forwards successful England during his clip astatine Wolves and earlier that successful Spain and Germany.
“He has each the qualities we are looking for arsenic we question to physique a strong, dynamic and entertaining squad susceptible of challenging for the biggest honours.”
As good arsenic Cunha, United are besides funny successful Brentford guardant Bryan Mbeumo.
The clubs are believed to beryllium successful negotiations implicit a interest for the Cameroonian international.
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— Manchester United (@ManUtd) June 12, 2025
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