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Manchester United’s on mortgage striker Marcus Rashford has work to do to persuade everyone on the FC Barcelona board.
Rashford lastly will get his transfer
After Aston Villa failed to achieve an settlement with Rashford to completely signal the striker, his future was left in limbo.
The 27-year-old all the time prioritised a transfer to Barcelona however any deal was sophisticated with the Catalans’ curiosity in Nico Williams and Luis Diaz.
In the end, each of these offers fell by way of and Rashford received his probability on the weekend when it was confirmed that United had struck a mortgage deal for the participant.
The England worldwide has handed his medical and may have a “Lamine Yamal type presentation” to adoring followers afterward as we speak within the metropolis.
Rashford has work to do
The winger might be delighted to have lastly gotten his transfer with no future at United underneath Ruben Amorim.
Nonetheless, it has already been reported that not everyone at Barcelona is on the identical web page concerning the participant.
The transfer did obtain the greenlight from supervisor Hansi Flick however there are doubters in excessive up positions on the Camp Nou.
In keeping with Catalan paper Sport, “Flick has been one of many greatest supporters of the deal, as he has all the time thought-about Rashford to be a distinction maker and a Barça participant.”
Deco doubts
Barcelona’s sporting director, Deco, “didn’t take into account him a primary selection for the winger” nevertheless, and wanted to be satisfied over the signing.
He solely got here spherical to the concept when it was clear that Luis Diaz was off the desk as Barcelona can’t compete with Bayern Munich financially.
Flick has warned Rashford in a cellphone dialog final Thursday that “he has to earn a beginning spot and, most significantly, he has to sacrifice himself for the group by considerably bettering his defensive strategy.”
Sport declare that “Barça’s doubts about Rashford centre on Rashford’s defensive indifference. At each United and Aston Villa, he has all the time had a whole lot of freedom of motion and a sure freedom to not defend. He isn’t a participant who tends to go for defensive duels, nor does he work too arduous in that space, focusing solely on scoring targets.”
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