Marcus Rashford’s future continues to make headlines amid speculation that Barcelona want to keep hold of the Manchester United loanee but don’t want to pay the €30 million purchase option in his contract
.La Liga expert Guillem Balague has some insight into Barcelona’s thinking and has claimed the club could buy Rashford and then sell him on at a higher price.
“It was a loan because they couldn’t pay for him, but £30m, they thought that if he did what was expected, they would pay for it,” Balague
told the Manchester Evening News.
“Hopefully, they thought the finances would be in a situation where they didn’t need to negotiate that.
“But Deco spoke to people at Aston Villa and Manchester United, and they were surprised that Manchester United let him go and that the price was only £30m at 27.
“So they found it was an opportunity in the market. There were two possibilities: If they liked him and did well, they buy him.
“But they could buy him anyway and sell him on in the Premier League still because he’s got obviously a big market there. But his idea was always to stay. The club hadn’t decided until recently what to do.”
Balague did go on to say that “now they want to keep him” but the purchase option is an issue. Manchester United are still refusing to budge on price, meaning it’s not clear exactly what will happen with the forward this summer.
