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Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford finished a loan move from a season in Barcelona, describing his new side like “a club where dreams come true”.
The agreed loan agreement is for the 2025/26 season with an option to buy it next summer. Sky Sports News understands that the price of the option is around 26 million pounds sterling (30 million euros).
Rashford will wear shirt no 14.
“I am very excited,” said Rashford when he was unveiled. “It’s a club where dreams come true. They earn a big price and what the club really represents a lot for me.
“I feel like I am at home and it is an important factor in my choice to come here.
“It’s a family club and people are comfortable here. It’s a good place for the right players to present their skills.”
A press release from Barcelona said: “FC Barcelona and Manchester United have entered into an agreement for the loan of player Marcus Rashford until June 30, 2026. The agreement also establishes an option to buy the English transfer.
“The player signed his contract as a Barça player this afternoon during a private meeting in the presence of the president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta; the director of the football zone and other members of the board of directors.”
Barcelona is expected to cover all the wages of Rashford during the proposed loan, although they are currently unable to record the attacker due to Laliga’s financial rules.
Spanish champions are deemed to have spent more on signatures and wages than in income for the 2024/25 season.
Laliga’s rules dictate that clubs cannot spend as much as they generate, so Barcelona will be necessary to make sales, reduce wages or increase their sources of income to make room for new signatures.
The deadline for this issue to be resolved is at the end of August. Barcelona is confident to record Rashford and their other new signatures in time for the new season.
Despite their longtime financial problems, the Catalan club has always been able to record their new signatures in time despite these challenges.
The English international Rashford had publicly declared that he would like to play for the Catalans this summer and was interested in a move to the Champions of Laliga in January, before joining Aston Villa on loan.
Rashford’s move would have received the green light from Barça Hansi Flick’s head coach after talking with the player.
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Marcus Rashford praised Lamine Yamal and revealed his desire to “play with the best”. (Credit: xbuyer youtube channel / javi ruiz)
It is believed that the Liverpool striker, Luis Diaz, was a priority target, but the advances of Barcelona were rejected earlier in the window.
The Academy’s graduate is one of the five players who have experienced additional leave to explore potential movements this summer.
Rashford’s career in Old Trafford seemed to have been over since Ruben Amorim said he Rather than his 63 -year -old goalkeeper coach on the bench than with the attacker because of what he considers a lack of effort.
However, Rashford refused to criticize Man Utd when he was submitted to the Old Trafford Club, rather than him, was at fault for provoking the situation that led to his departure.
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Marcus Rashford is asked if he or Manchester United has been the problem in recent years, when he was unveiled in Barcelona.
“The situation with Man UTD, the club has been in a period of change, and they have been so for some time,” he said.
“I have nothing wrong to say about Man Utd. It was an important part not only of my career but in my life.
“I am grateful for the opportunity to play for them, but football is the same as life, and everything is not going as simple as you thought.
“This is my next step, my next chapter, and I am fully focusing on the test of improving and helping the team win trophies.
“I just want Man Utd the best and I hope they succeed in the future.”
Rashford: I have always been a fan of looking at Barcelona playing
Rashford has chosen Barcelona’s style of play and the influence of their head coach Hansi Flick as a factors contributing to his desire to join the Spanish champions.
“I always try to do decisive actions and quick dynamic games, and I still like good football. I have always been a fan of looking at Barcelona playing from an early age, like most football fans,” he said.
“It’s going to be a joy for me to play here and I will enjoy it every minute. I am full of excitement and hunger to go out and try to help this team win.
“They won so much last year and I can see that the club’s ambition is to do better than last year. For a player, that’s what you want to hear because it allows you to improve from year to year, and that’s what you need to be the best version of yourself.
“” Hansi Flick is another key factor in the reason I am here.
“The conversations I had with him were very positive and what he did last year was a great season, but not just last year. During his career, he proved that he was one of the best coaches.
“To lead such a young team to a very successful season and then come back to the pre-season and I always want to do more, it shows me everything I thought about the club, but now, to be here, that’s all I wanted and thought.
“I can’t wait to go there now and learn the Barcelona route as you go.”
‘Rashford may have found its vocation at Barça’
Sky Sports News Reporter Gary Cotterill in Barcelona:
As we know, Barcelona is more than a club. During his big day at the Nou camp, Marcus Rashford was more than impressive.
Smiling. Admitted and started, and his answers to dozens of questions were made to measure. Tailor made to look forward, not behind.
There were journalists who had traveled from England to be here, including me. Everyone tried to draw the attention of the Barcelona news officer, but none had authorized a question. The feeling being that local journalists would ask questions about Barcelona, not Manchester United.
And that’s how it turned out.
The new n ° 14 of the club said that a whole fan of Barcelona would like to hear about where “dreams come true”.
When he was finally asked a lonely question about his parent club, he checked it magnificently, turned a six pence (our euro) and hammered it at the top of the net.
“I have nothing wrong with saying,” he said. 1-0 to media chiefs.
The only slight hiccup that Rashford made all day was timing. He arrived 15 minutes late for the contract signature ceremony, but no one seemed to worry about it.
The first Englishman to play for Barcelona from Gary Lineker posed near an old English phone booth as part of his official club video.
Apt.
Because during the unveiling of the media, Marcus Rashford sounded good tone and kept everyone engaged. He may have found his vocation.
Rashford the big winner
Marcus Rashford is planned for a loan move to Barcelona
Nick Wright of Sky Sports Football:
Manchester United gets a player without a future under Ruben Amorim of his books and release a considerable space on their salary bill. Barcelona acquires a potentially class of world class without having to commit to signing it in a permanent agreement.
But the greatest winner of Marcus Rashford’s Going from Old Trafford to Camp Nou on loan with a purchase option is the player himself. He exchanged a team that finished 15th in the Premier League last for one who won a national double and a rank among the favorites of this season to win the Champions League.
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