\u00a369.3m for Newcastle forward Anthony Gordon<\/a>, who is competing for an England starting spot with Rashford at the World Cup.<\/p>\nUnited have repeatedly said they are not willing to renegotiate and even sources close to the player feel the deadline will pass without agreement.<\/p>\n
Potentially, that could place Rashford and the Old Trafford club in a difficult position.<\/p>\n
He has one of United’s most lucrative contracts, which runs until 2028, and minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe wants to lower the top-level amounts being paid to the first-team squad.<\/p>\n
Last summer, Rashford was placed in the ‘bomb squad’ by former boss Ruben Amorim before he sealed his loan move to Barcelona.<\/p>\n
However, Michael Carrick’s relationship with him is far deeper, given he is both a former team-mate, coach and – for three games following Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s dismissal in 2021 – manager of one of the recent stars of United’s academy and currently the club’s 15th all-time highest goalscorer.<\/p>\n
When Carrick was asked about Rashford in April, he said no decision had been made about the attacker’s future.<\/p>\n
He added “whoever’s here, I want to work with, and help them improve”.<\/p>\n
There is some breathing space with the situation even if the 15 June deadline passes.<\/p>\n
Rashford would be entitled to three weeks off once England’s World Cup campaign concludes.<\/p>\n
It means if the Three Lions went out in the quarter-finals, he wouldn’t be due back at United’s Carrington training ground until the first week of August, before the pre-season encounter with Paris St-Germain in Gothenburg on 8 August, which precedes a week-long training camp in the Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n
That offers a period for his future to be resolved, with numerous sources feeling it is not out of the question he returns to Barcelona on a different deal to the one currently in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United are waiting to be told whether Barcelona intend to trigger the \u00a326m clause that would make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-493161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}