{"id":30104,"date":"2025-07-23T01:56:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/30104\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T01:56:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:56:18","slug":"la-masia-graduate-turned-chelsea-star-gives-verdict-on-marcus-rashford-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/30104\/","title":{"rendered":"La Masia Graduate Turned Chelsea Star Gives Verdict on Marcus Rashford Transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_8rclfrkbp\">Marc Cucurella has plenty of experience sharing the pitch with Marcus Rashford and he knows exactly what he can bring to the table in his new endeavor with Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_0zcg07mw9\">The <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/team\/chelsea\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea<\/a> left back is currently enjoying some time off after conquering the Club World Cup with the Blues. During an interview session with Jijantes at Campus Marc Cucurella in <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/team\/barcelona\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barcelona<\/a>, he was asked to give his opinion in Bar\u00e7a\u2019s newest reinforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_lojl2ja08\">\u201cGood, Good. I like him [Rashford],\u201d <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sXHRaUVUu0k?t=1443\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cucurella said<\/a>. \u201cPhysically, I think he\u2019ll do very well in La Liga. He\u2019s very fast and the pace of the leagues is very different. He\u2019s coming off always playing there [Premier League], he\u2019s used to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_z6jzn1s80\">\u201cHere [La Liga], I think he\u2019ll notice that the pace is a little bit inferior than there [Premier League], so I think he can do a lot of good work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_t3975131f\">Cucurella is a product of Barcelona\u2019s famous La Masia. Although he never made his debut for the Catalans, he played three seasons in <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/la-liga\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">La Liga<\/a> with Eibar and Getafe before making his move to the <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/premier-league\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League<\/a> with Brighton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_mamlk1szp\">Rashford\u2019s <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/transfers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">move<\/a> to Barcelona has been met with contrasting opinions. However, one of the best left backs in the game believes the former <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/team\/manchester-united\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United<\/a> player has what it takes to thrive in Spain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_vqzanyr2x\">With both Chelsea and Barcelona playing in the <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/champions-league\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Champions League<\/a> next season, Cucurella couldn&#8217;t hide his desire of facing his boyhood club\u2014with an interesting caveat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_jsrs2h747\">\u201cI would love it, truly,\u201d Cucurella admitted. \u201cBut at Stamford Bridge, playing at Montjuic [Estadi Ol\u00edmpic Llu\u00eds Companys] isn\u2019t motivating. [The Camp Nou] will still be in construction, that\u2019s not motivating. I\u2019d forbid that. Playing at a stadium that\u2019s not finished construction takes away all the emotion from the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ THE LATEST BARCELONA NEWS, TRANSFER RUMORS AND MORE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Cucurella has plenty of experience sharing the pitch with Marcus Rashford and he knows exactly what he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-30104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}