Barcelona are advancing with a transfer to signal Marcus Rashford from Manchester United.
Barcelona have made a suggestion through intermediaries to mortgage Rashford subsequent season and the proposal consists of an possibility to purchase.
The 27-year-old desires the transfer and the concept has been agreed to by United and though it isn’t but a achieved deal, talks between all events at the moment are on the last levels.
Barcelona have been in search of an attacker who can function in vast areas and up entrance, which makes Rashford a lovely possibility. Left-wing has been thought of a precedence for the membership after they felt they have been in need of choices in that place in direction of the tip of final season.
Head coach Hansi Flick has spoken to the England worldwide and authorised his arrival.
Taking Rashford on an preliminary non permanent foundation would additionally assist Barcelona as they proceed to navigate a tough monetary scenario.
Rashford joined Aston Villa on mortgage from United within the winter window for the rest of the 2024-25 marketing campaign and scored 4 objectives in 17 appearances for Unai Emery’s facet.
His season was curtailed by a hamstring harm picked up in April. He missed the ultimate 4 video games of the marketing campaign and was ignored of Thomas Tuchel’s newest England squad for the upcoming fixtures towards Andorra and Senegal.
Rashford is certainly one of United’s high earners at greater than £325,000 per week, of which Villa lined three-quarters — along with performance-related bonuses — all through his mortgage deal.
The Athletic reported in January that the 27-year-old favoured a transfer to Barcelona, with sporting director Deco retaining shut tabs on the ahead. The Athletic reported on June 3 that Rashford’s brother and agent, Dwaine Maynard, had been within the Catalan metropolis for talks.
Barcelona head coach Hansi Flick stated earlier this summer season he hoped so as to add vast forwards to his squad with Lamine Yamal and Raphinha presently first-choice within the positions in Barca’s 4-3-3 system.
The membership agreed private phrases with Nico Williams earlier than the Spain worldwide opted as an alternative to remain at Athletic Membership and signal a brand new contract till 2035 whereas Liverpool knocked again an strategy for Luis Diaz final month and demand the 28-year-old, who can be of curiosity to Bayern Munich, is just not on the market.
When requested about signing a brand new winger in the summertime in Could, Flick stated: “That is what now we have talked about with the membership. Within the final matches possibly we didn’t have quite a lot of choices in that place… so now we have to deliver extra choices to the crew and extra high quality. That is the job from Deco, is obvious, and I’ll help him.”
On Diaz and Rashford particularly, Flick added: “I don’t wish to discuss gamers which aren’t in my crew, however after all Luis Diaz and Marcus Rashford are improbable gamers. I like them and we’ll see what occurs.”
Rashford has not featured for United for the reason that Europa League fixture towards Viktoria Plzen on December 12, having first been ignored of the squad by Ruben Amorim for the Premier League match towards Manchester Metropolis on December 15.
In an interview later in December, Rashford stated he was “prepared for a brand new problem” away from United.
United have by no means publicly closed the door to Rashford being reintegrated, though he was certainly one of 5 gamers given additional time to discover a transfer away by the membership. Regardless of that Rashford reported again to Carrington on July 8 and labored on a person foundation, not collaborating in crew coaching with the remainder of Ruben Amorim’s squad
The United academy product has made 426 appearances for the membership and scored 138 objectives since his debut in 2015.
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