When summer begins, Barcelona knows that they need to increase the attack. At that time, Athletic Club's winger Nico Williams was no longer in the plan, after the deal was broken last year. Barca seemed to have passed.
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In the thinking of DECO sports director, the two names considered Liverpool and Marcus Rashford from Manchester United. Deco leaned towards Díaz, but this deal was difficult to financially feasible. Later, Williams suddenly proactively offered to wear Barcelona, and the plan immediately changed. Deco decided to reopen the door with the Spanish player, who was 23 years old this month.
However, when Barca believed that recruiting Williams was only a matter of time, namely July 4, a video appeared on the social network of Athletic Club confirmed three things: this guy will stay in Bilbao, extend the contract for another 10 years, and once again, refuse Barcelona.
With that development, Barcelona officially closed the door for the Nico Williams deal and returned to consider other options.
Luis Díaz is still the top priority choice of Deco, the Colombian winger is the name he loves the most. However, Barca has not been able to apply the 1: 1 rule of La Liga – that is, the euro for each Euro collection – although according to internal sources, they are moving very close to meeting this condition.
Financial constraints forced Barcelona to work within what they maybe do, instead of what they want do. And in that situation, only one name meets all criteria: Marcus Rashford.
The 27 -year -old British has officially joined Barcelona on the form of lending a season, with the intention of being used mainly on the left wing, although he can play in any position on the attack.
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This deal is necessary for many reasons:
First of all, the coaching staff wants to increase the depth for the attack.
Last season, the main stone trio including Lamine Yamal, Robert Lewandowski and Raphinha brought a clear effect. Barca is the team that scored the most goals in La Liga with 102 goals, far beyond Real Madrid, the team ranked second with only 78 goals. Lewandowski scored 27 goals, only inferior to the top scorer of Kylian Mbappé (then on Madrid payroll) exactly 4 goals. Raphinha has 18 goals, and Yamal contributes 9 goals.
This trio is clearly the preferred and irreplaceable choice, but the problem arises when they face injuries and physical decline at the end of the season.
Head coach Hansi Flick and his colleagues felt that the squad needs to be more depth. They no longer have enough faith in Ansu Fati, who moved to Monaco on a loan a few weeks ago, or a wallet, last summer contract. By the time of the decisive period of the 2024/25 season and Lewandowski had to take a 17 -day break because of the hamstring injury, Barca could only rely on Raphinha, Yamal and Ferran Torres.
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Flick also prioritized the use of Raphinha as the central role, and although the Brazilian player was a left -wing striker, he played more in the middle of the pitch rather than clinging. To make the most of this style of play, and considering the Ferran Torres is considered the central striker to compete with the main stone with Lewandowski (who will turn 37 next month) to help the Polish striker to rest alternately, Flick wants to add a left -wing player with better speed.
In fact, when it seems that Nico Williams will sign a contract, many people in Barca have imagined the tactical plan as pulling Raphinha back down the stone as a attacking midfielder. With the arrival of Rashford, Flick can keep that plan or simply let Raphinha rest in some matches.
They need someone to fill that position, and after the Diaz and Williams deals failed, Rashford became the most feasible plan.
Deco tried to recruit Luis Diaz, but it was simply an impossible option, although Barca desired. They cannot afford Diaz's high salary, plus other financial troubles related to the registration of the player, making the deal even more complicated. The club is currently trying to reduce spending anywhere to gradually bring the financial situation back to normal state, from which can buy players this summer.
It should be noted that if recruiting Diaz or Nico Williams, Barca will have to buy breaks rather than borrowed. At that time, their transfer fee (equally divided by the number of years of contracts) will be calculated in the salary limit that La Liga imposed.
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This does not apply to Rashford, who joined Barcelona on a loan without a transfer fee. However, the registration of the competition has not been guaranteed.
Currently, Barca is still exceeding the limit of the salary fund imposed by La Liga, which means that they have not been able to register any rookie, including Rashford, goalkeeper Joan Garcia and Wojciech Szczesny, and young talent Roon Bardghji.
To be able to register for these players, the club is forced to release the salary fund, by liquidating high -income players or finding significant new revenues.
However, Rashford is still a financial feasible plan: much cheaper than other goals of Barca, playing in the winger and importantly, coach Flick appreciates him.
Another key factor is the player's desire. Rashford desires to play for Barcelona and right after learning that Nico Williams refused, he took the initiative to express his desire to the club.
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At Man United, Rashford is going through a difficult period of personal: he was deprived of the shirt for the new season, a clear move showed that the club wanted him to leave. In that context, the opportunity to wear Barca to bring Rashford is clearly excited.
Although he knew that he might have to wait until the last minute of the summer transfer window to play, like the case of Victor and Dani Olmo a year ago, Rashford still wanted to go to the Camp Nou.
Rashford's proactive and ready to wait, combined with Barca's unknown experience in the Nico Williams deal, especially the Terms of the Spanish player requested to protect themselves in the case of not being registered after signing the contract, led to the Board of Directors towards the British star.
Rashford is not the name that Barcelona will target in normal circumstances. He also did not have to choose the first choice. But in the current financial situation, he is the right person, or at least best in what the club can do.
According to The Athletic
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