{"id":787015,"date":"2026-07-08T13:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/787015\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T13:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:18:11","slug":"marcus-rashford-expected-to-start-new-season-back-at-manchester-united-marcus-rashford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/787015\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Rashford expected to start new season back at Manchester United | Marcus Rashford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marcus Rashford is set to be re-integrated at Manchester United after the World Cup, with the forward expected to start next season as part of Michael Carrick\u2019s squad. Due to a breakdown in the relationship between the player and club, the 28-year-old, who has two years left on his contract, last played for United in a 2-1 Europa League win at Viktoria Pilzen<\/a> in December 2024. There are no problems between Rashford and Carrick.<\/p>\n

Rashford will have a three-week break at the close of England\u2019s World Cup campaign and the plan is for him to return to United for pre-season training.<\/p>\n

United\u2019s preference would be to ease their wage bill by offloading Rashford\u2019s circa \u00a317.5m a-year salary, but there is a lack of requisite suitors for the him. Rashford was loaned to Aston Villa<\/a> in January 2025 then Barcelona for the season<\/a> just finished. After scoring the goal in Barcelona\u2019s 2-0 win over Real Madrid <\/a>in May that sealed the La Liga title, Rashford stated his preference was to re-sign for the club.<\/p>\n

But while a fee of \u00a326m would have triggered his release clause, Barcelona signed Anthony Gordon, whose preferred position is also wide left, for \u00a360.7m<\/a> plus add-ons. United have no plan to engage with Barcelona regarding another temporary move for Rashford.<\/p>\n

Rashford\u2019s relationship with United was ruptured after he was taken off on 56 minutes at Pilzen by Ruben Amorim, the then head coach refusing to consider Rashford for selection. The Portuguese explained why<\/a> later that month. \u201cIt is important the performance in training, in games, the way you dress, eat, engage with your teammates, push your teammates,\u201d said Amorim, who also described Rashford\u2019s absence as being for selection reasons.<\/p>\n

United\u2019s pre-season begins on Thursday and they have six friendlies before the new campaign, beginning with a meeting with Wrexham in Helsinki on 18 July, the day before the World Cup final.<\/p>\n

Marcus Rashford (right) last played for Manchester United in a Europa League win at Viktoria Plzen in December 2024. Photograph: Petr David Josek\/AP<\/p>\n

United then face Rosenborg in Trondheim, on 24 July, Atl\u00e9tico Madrid in Stockholm (1 August), Paris Saint-Germain in Gothenburg (8 August), Leeds in Dublin (12 August), and Milan in Wroclaw (15 August). A week later they travel to Hull to begin the Premier League season. If England reach the World Cup final then the earliest Rashford could return to United would be 10 August.<\/p>\n

Carrick was appointed permanent head coach<\/a> in late May after initially replacing Amorim<\/a> in January as a caretaker. He guided United back into the Champions League with a third-place finish and is excited about next season.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI cannot wait to lead the group forward next season and for those special European nights to return to Old Trafford. We are ready to kick on and give you more of the great moments that United are all about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marcus Rashford is set to be re-integrated at Manchester United after the World Cup, with the forward expected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-787015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787015","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=787015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}