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Marcus Rashford’s desire was to be a “one-club man” at Manchester United, based on Barcelona president Joan Laporta.
Rashford signed for Barcelona earlier this week, with the Blaugrana taking the England worldwide on mortgage for the 2025-26 season.
Barca, final season’s LaLiga champions, even have the choice to purchase Rashford.
The 27-year-old discovered himself out of favour underneath Ruben Amorim at United, and spent the again half of final season on mortgage at Aston Villa.
Laporta claims Rashford noticed himself as staying at United for his total profession, however circumstances dictated that might not be the case.
“We’re very completely satisfied as a result of a participant of nice high quality is coming, at an amazing age to return to Barca with extraordinary motivation,” stated Laporta, as quoted by Objective.com.
“Personally, I’ve seen how excited he’s to return to Barca.
“One in every of his virtues is that he’s honest. His dream was to play for Manchester United for the remainder of his life.
“Yeah… It’s official.”
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“He arrived on the age of seven and was born there. He wished to be a ‘one-club man’.
“It’s good for a participant to say this with all sincerity.”
Having made his United debut in February 2016, Rashford has gone on to make 426 appearances for the Pink Devils, scoring 138 objectives and registering 60 assists.
Rashford had his greatest marketing campaign for United in 2022-23, netting 30 occasions in all competitions, however he solely netted eight additional occasions for the membership earlier than leaving for Villa halfway by way of final season.
He’ll develop into simply the second English participant to function for Barca, after Gary Lineker.
