Barcelona confirm Marcus Rashford loan from Manchester United with buy option | Marcus Rashford

Barcelona have signed Marcus Rashford on a season-long mortgage from Manchester United with an choice to purchase. The ahead joins after falling out of favour below Ruben Amorim at his boyhood membership.

“I need to win the most important trophies and really feel like Barcelona is a large membership within the soccer world so it’s the good place,” Rashford mentioned in an official unveiling by the Spanish membership. “You see with the group final season, they’ve a younger formidable group and I need to add my qualities, my character, enhance the group and assist them win.”

Earlier, in feedback to the membership’s personal media, Rashford mentioned: “It’s a membership the place folks’s goals come true they usually win huge prizes. And what the membership stands for actually means rather a lot to me as properly. It seems like residence and this can be a huge think about my selection to return right here.”

Rashford was one in all 5 United gamers made to coach away from Amorim’s squad this summer season. The England worldwide, who spent the second half of final season on mortgage at Aston Villa, has been coaching at a health club in Salford and at United’s Carrington base, though solely after first-team gamers have left.

The 27-year-old ahead has three years remaining on a £325,000-a-week contract at Outdated Trafford. Barcelona mentioned he would change into the tenth man to play for them and United, after Mark Hughes, Laurent Blanc, Henrik Larsson, Jordi Cruyff, Gerard Piqué, Víctor Valdés, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Alexis Sánchez and Memphis Depay.

“The participant has signed his contract as a Barça participant this afternoon at a non-public assembly within the presence of the FC Barcelona president, Joan Laporta, the director of the soccer space and different board members,” Barcelona mentioned in a press release.

Rashford mentioned: “I used to be clear on my choice from the start. It didn’t work out in January so I went to Aston Villa and loved a superb interval there. I’m very grateful for the chance to play there. The summer season got here round in a short time, it was time to make one other determination. My selection was straightforward. It’s a household membership, one thing I’m used to from my previous.”

Rashford has spent 20 years at United, scoring 138 targets in 426 appearances for the membership, however has not featured since being dropped by Amorim for the Manchester derby final December. He mentioned later that month that he was prepared for a brand new problem.

“The state of affairs with United is the membership is in a interval of change they usually have been for some time,” Rashford mentioned. “I don’t have something unhealthy to say about Manchester United because it has been an necessary half not solely in my profession however my life. I used to be grateful for the chance to play for them. However soccer is like life – not the whole lot goes as merely as you thought and that is my subsequent chapter. I’m absolutely centered on this and attempting to enhance myself and serving to the group win trophies.”

In a press release United mentioned: “Everybody at Manchester United needs Marcus good luck for the season.”