{"id":379566,"date":"2026-04-07T13:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/379566\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:04:12","slug":"rio-ferdinand-calls-marcus-rashfords-potential-26m-transfer-to-barcelona-an-absolute-robbery-says-hed-100-percent-have-rejuvenated-forward-back-at-man-utd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/379566\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Ferdinand calls Marcus Rashford&#8217;s potential \u00a326m transfer to Barcelona an &#8216;absolute robbery&#8217; &#038; says he&#8217;d &#8216;100 percent&#8217; have rejuvenated forward back at Man Utd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite his admiration for the 28-year-old, Ferdinand admits the forward\u2019s time in Manchester is likely over. When asked if he would take the United academy graduate back at Old Trafford, he said: &#8220;Absolutely! Would you have that Marcus Rashford back? 100 per cent, but I think that ship has sailed. Potentially he\u2019s that good, it\u2019s just that we haven\u2019t seen it for a while at United.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rashford himself appears to be enjoying the weight of expectation in Spain, as he recently told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sport.es\/es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sport<\/a>: &#8220;Barcelona is a fantastic club. A club that is known for winning, and it\u2019s this type of pressure \u2013 I want to say pressure but it\u2019s not a bad type of pressure. It\u2019s a pressure that you look forward to and a pressure that I want to have whilst I\u2019m playing football. If I\u2019m at a club that doesn\u2019t demand these things then it\u2019s more difficult for me to be motivated. It\u2019s a fantastic environment for me to continue my football journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite his admiration for the 28-year-old, Ferdinand admits the forward\u2019s time in Manchester is likely over. When asked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1998,85,46,18617,21332,3157,2619,105,9461],"class_list":{"0":"post-379566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-laliga","12":"tag-m-rashford","13":"tag-manchester-united","14":"tag-premier-league","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-transfers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}