Theoretically, recruiting Marcus Rashford from MU is a wise flag country of Barca. The Catalunya team benefits enough in this deal, except for the insecurity of the “evidence” of the British star.
According to the Spanish media, Barca has reached an agreement to borrow the disgraced striker Marcus Rashford of MU until the end of the 2025/26 season, with the terms of purchase. Theoretically, this seems illogical. Because the attack of the Catalunya team is much higher than the Manchester team. But Barca has reasons to decide to do so.
Last season, Barca was the most effective attacking team in La Liga with 102 goals. But their main striker – striker Robert Lewandowski – was old. The 2nd star in the list of La Liga scorer 2024/25 (27 goals) needed a person to share the responsibility of scoring. No one is more suitable than Marcus Rashford in that role.
Rashford is a versatile striker. He mainly kicked the striker left. However, the British striker can also play well as a striker. Surely many MU fans have not forgotten. In the 2022/23 season, when Erik Ten HAG was still in the head of the coach at Old Trafford, Rashford was mainly stone “No. 9” and he scored a total of 30 goals in all competitions for the Red Devils.
Overall, Rashford is an experienced player. He moved again from a tournament that was considered the harshest in Europe. Therefore, the possibility of the British striker quickly adapt and shine in Barca's shirt, especially in big matches, is entirely possible. This is also what the Catalunya team is very expected, when deciding to take him back to the coach of coach Hansi Flick.
Of course, Barca is likely to still let Marcus Rashford play in the familiar striker position. The reason is because coach Hansi Flick is intending to push the winger Raphinha (the player often appears on the left wing corridor of Barca last season) into the stone as a “number 10” to take full advantage of the creative ability of the Brazilian player. That is also the reason why Barca once asked to buy Nico Williams (Bilbao), and then Luis Diaz (Liverpool), before redirecting the target to Rashford.
But the most important reason why Barca decided to choose Rashford was because there were rumors that they only lost the cost of this striker. Meanwhile, MU is the team to pay the British star – this makes Barca not difficult in dealing with the ceiling pressure from the La Liga Organizing Committee. Besides, although the contract between them and the Manchester team has a clause to buy in the summer next year, Barca can still “flip the rafters” the same way Chelsea did with the loan contract Jadon Sancho from MU.
In short, this is Barca's wise flag. There are more British stars in the attack, the Catalunya team is no different from the tiger. Barca will have more options to play attack with this 27 -year -old striker. However, coach Hansi Flick also needs to be wary of “horse -proof horse” at Marcus Rashford. Barca needs to know that one of the reasons why the British star no longer has a body of the body at Old Trafford is because he has just been lazy in training, and often expresses his opposition to coach Ruben Amorim.
If deciding to close the plan to buy Marcus Rashford in the summer next year, Barca will have to prepare a minimum budget of 40 million pounds. This is the MU season transfer fee offered to Aston Villa a while ago, after Rashford expired the loan contract with the Villa Park team.