The love story between Marcus Rashford and Manchester United indeed seems to be coming to an end. The English international, long presented as the symbol of a club in search of renewal, lived an eventful season, marked by tensions with the new coach Ruben Amorim and a mixed loan at Aston Villa. If his displayed dream remained to join FC Barcelona, a completely different door has just opened, to everyone's surprise, while negotiations with the Catalans stood on the amount of the transfer and the wages of the attacker.
According to the latest revelations of the Manchester Evening Standard, Manchester United agreed to study the option of a loan … Direction Inter Milan. The unhappy finalist of the last Champions League, eager to strengthen his attack, contacted the English in the form of a season. An unexpected but logical choice for the player, who dreams of a Champions League and who does not plan to lower his salary, making his transfer to other English clubs or Barça impossible. Inter Milan, with his experience in the management of players in difficulty elsewhere, thus represents a formidable opportunity to rebound, like the recent successes of Sancho, Antony or Mctuminay far from Old Trafford.
Rashford knows that this new challenge is not without risks. Inter Milan did not embark on a final transfer and relies on the player's ability to find his best level, seen during his loan to Aston Villa (4 goals, 5 assists). At 27, the winger wants to prove that he is not yet on the decline, despite the distrust of part of the press and the skepticism of certain Milanese supporters.
Rashford towards Inter Milan, a loan to bounce back
The main question remains the salary question: with a salary of 325,000 pounds per week, Rashford refuses any drop in income, which partly explains the format of the loan. Manchester United hopes, by this means, to facilitate a possible final transfer in the event of rebirth of his star attacker, while keeping the hand on the rest of the file.
While the movements accelerate on the market, Rashford embodies the dilemma of loss of speed, torn between sporting ambition and economic reality. For United, this loan represents a temporary solution, but also the last chance to relaunch a player trained at the club, while Inter Milan hopes to strike a big blow. Answer in the coming weeks for a soap opera that keeps Europe in football.
