{"id":25716,"date":"2025-10-27T10:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T14:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/27\/i-showed-i-belong-there-wayne-rooney-waxes-lyrical-about-manchester-united-star\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T10:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T14:57:13","slug":"i-showed-i-belong-there-wayne-rooney-waxes-lyrical-about-manchester-united-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/27\/i-showed-i-belong-there-wayne-rooney-waxes-lyrical-about-manchester-united-star\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI showed I belong there\u201d \u2013 Wayne Rooney waxes lyrical about Manchester United star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man Utd won their third straight game against Brighton. (Photo by Karl Lesseen\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Man United had a difficult start to the season but have improved in recent weeks with three consecutive wins in the Premier League.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest game took place on Saturday, in which Brighton lost 4-2, and there were a number of players who stood out for Man United, but perhaps none more so than their two big-money summer signings.<\/p>\n<h2>Wayne Rooney, Brian Mbeumo and Matheus Cunha delighted<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Mbeumo in action for Manchester United (Photo by Alex Livesey\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brian Mbeumo scored twice against Brighton and, according to BBC Sport (via TBR Football), Wayne Rooney expressed his delight at the impact the Cameroon international has had at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Even at Manchester United, he had some really good chances in the game, but he just didn&#8217;t always take them. But his energy, his work rate, his drive&#8230; I think that&#8217;s what you need to be a Manchester United player. And, yes, I said he was a bit unsure, but I think what he&#8217;s showing is that he belongs at Man United.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Cunha has obviously come in. It&#8217;s great to see him score goals, but Mbeumo has been consistent in his performances. That&#8217;s the important thing. If you&#8217;re always in the right position and taking chances, you can score. Last season he scored 20 goals for Brentford, so what? And now he&#8217;s off to another good start.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;When you&#8217;re a forward, it&#8217;s fun to score goals and that feeling lasts forever. So you see players scoring goals in a row and scoring eight, 10, 11 goals on the bounce, and then sometimes they don&#8217;t score a single goal for a few games. His confidence is very high at the moment and hopefully that continues because he was definitely the best signing for Man United this season.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rooney also spoke passionately about Matheus Cunha, who scored his first goal for Man United in the win over Brighton.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;You could see how happy everyone was for him &#8211; including the manager &#8211; because that&#8217;s at the back of their minds. He&#8217;s obviously missed a couple of games with an injury, but you could see the joy he had when he scored. I&#8217;ve been there before where the players really need that goal because they&#8217;re going through a tough period, so I hope it motivates the players.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Hopefully he can start to show what we saw with the Wolves last year. I think he can step up from here, get better and start grabbing games by the scruff of the neck because that&#8217;s what he&#8217;s capable of. He&#8217;s unpredictable at times and that&#8217;s what makes him such a threat.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Man United currently sit sixth in the Premier League and will be hoping to improve further when they travel to Nottingham Forest at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End -->\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man Utd won their third straight game against Brighton. (Photo by Karl Lesseen\/Getty Images) Man United had a difficult start to the season but have improved in recent weeks with three consecutive wins in the Premier League. The latest game took place on Saturday, in which Brighton lost 4-2, and there were a number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"class_list":{"0":"post-25716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}