{"id":708473,"date":"2026-06-01T15:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/708473\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:06:10","slug":"man-united-transfer-news-live-rafael-leao-stance-vinicius-jr-contact-elliot-anderson-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/708473\/","title":{"rendered":"Man United transfer news LIVE: Rafael Leao stance, Vinicius Jr &#8216;contact&#8217;, Elliot Anderson twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Manchester United have ruled out another loan move to Barcelona for Marcus Rashford after the forward spent the 2025\/26 season at the Camp Nou, according to former scout Mick Brown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Barca have a \u00a326million option to buy Rashford but the Catalan side are trying to get him &#8220;on the cheap&#8221;, according to Brown, and hope United buckle amid the player&#8217;s desire to move back to Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Barcelona have been trying to get Rashford on the cheap,&#8221; Brown told Football Insider. &#8220;From Man United&#8217;s point of view, \u00a326million is already cheap, but they want to either lower that price or sign him on another loan deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;That&#8217;s not going to work, so as things stand, that deal is off because Barcelona won&#8217;t come up with the money that United are asking for. It&#8217;s even more frustrating for the club seeing them go out and spend on Anthony Gordon, because the money has obviously been there for them to spend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;In hindsight, Man United should have included an obligation to buy rather than an option, but that isn&#8217;t the case so they&#8217;ve gone right back to square one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;It will be a test of their strength in negotiations, because they&#8217;re planning to stick to their price tag and then see who moves first, with Rashford now set to return.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Marcus Rashford\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0_GettyImages-2277879532.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United have ruled out another loan move to Barcelona for Marcus Rashford after the forward spent the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,57217,93304,596,1752,211654,1614,85],"class_list":["post-708473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ederson","tag-elliot-anderson","tag-football","tag-manchester-united-fc","tag-michael-carrick","tag-premier-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}