{"id":147331,"date":"2026-07-20T13:02:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/what-next-for-marcus-rashford-at-old-trafford\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T13:02:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:02:53","slug":"what-next-for-marcus-rashford-at-old-trafford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/what-next-for-marcus-rashford-at-old-trafford\/","title":{"rendered":"What next for Marcus Rashford at Old Trafford?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Marcus Rashford scored in England\u2019s stunning 6-4 World Cup third-place win over France, closed out the tournament with a heartfelt message to fans, and heads into a three-week break as one of the best-performing English forwards in Miami.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yet as the transfer window ticks toward its 1 September close, the market for one of Manchester United\u2019s most decorated academy graduates remains almost silent.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers explain why Rashford\u2019s \u00a3325,000-a-week salary, the highest at Old Trafford, puts him out of reach for all but a handful of clubs worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona, who took him on loan last season and won La Liga with him in the side, let their \u00a326m permanent-transfer option lapse in June. A separate release clause allowing any club bar Liverpool and Manchester City to sign him for \u00a340m expired in July, also untouched.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to the player say the logic was simple: no rival was likely to beat the discounted price Barcelona already had on the table.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United, meanwhile, are holding firm. Under financial pressure from minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the club have refused to renegotiate terms with Barcelona or sanction a second loan, part of a broader stance this summer of declining to overpay for outgoing or incoming deals,\u00a0 a policy that has already cost them moves for Elliot Anderson and Mateus Fernandes.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves Rashford, United\u2019s 15th-highest scorer with 138 goals, in limbo: too expensive to attract buyers, but with a relationship with new head coach Michael Carrick, a former teammate, far less fractured than under predecessor Ruben Amorim.<\/p>\n<p>Unless the financial deadlock breaks, the most likely outcome by 1 September is the one nobody predicted a year ago, Rashfordis still a Manchester United player.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/what-next-for-marcus-rashford-at-old-trafford\/\">What next for Marcus Rashford at Old Trafford?<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Rashford scored in England\u2019s stunning 6-4 World Cup third-place win over France, closed out the tournament with a heartfelt message to fans, and heads into a three-week break as one of the best-performing English forwards in Miami.\u00a0 Yet as the transfer window ticks toward its 1 September close, the market for one of Manchester [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}