{"id":583735,"date":"2026-08-05T07:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T07:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/583735\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T07:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T07:44:08","slug":"marcus-rashford-will-he-return-to-man-utd-and-what-impact-would-he-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/583735\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Rashford: Will he return to Man Utd – and what impact would he have?"},"content":{"rendered":"

That reality has created a new one.<\/p>\n

Rashford is contracted to Manchester United<\/a> until 2028. His salary of \u00a3325,000 a week makes him the club’s top earner at a time when minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe is trying to stay on top of wage costs, which is, by some distance, the club’s highest expenditure.<\/p>\n

United’s transfer activity has slowed since Belgium midfielder Youri Tielemans joined them for \u00a335m on 14 July.<\/p>\n

While uncertainty over Rashford’s future is not the entire reason for this, it is a basic truth that United’s search for a left-sided attacking player, or another striker, will be affected if he stays at the club because he can play in both positions.<\/p>\n

Equally, the amount United can pay in wages will differ depending on whether Rashford’s salary is part of the overall bill.<\/p>\n

Many fans are conflicted.<\/p>\n

Plenty feel Rashford’s fallout with Amorim over his performances in training was reflective of someone who no longer felt the joy of playing for his boyhood club.<\/p>\n

Comparisons were made with his performances prior to his exit from United and those at Aston Villa<\/a>, with England and then Barcelona.<\/p>\n

Others think Rashford is too good to be discarded; a local lad who would benefit from an arm around the shoulder and is capable of making a significant impact in Carrick’s team.<\/p>\n

The secondary point to that is could United sign a player of similar standing for \u00a326m, given that is the fee sources close to Rashford feel would not be exceeded given it had been agreed with Barcelona?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That reality has created a new one. Rashford is contracted to Manchester United until 2028. His salary of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-583735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583735","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=583735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}