{"id":1550,"date":"2026-04-28T14:30:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:30:35","slug":"marcus-rashford-barcelona-want-manchester-united-forward-on-a-second-season-long-loan-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=1550","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Rashford: Barcelona want Manchester United forward on a second-season long loan | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-testid=\"article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>Barcelona are interested in a second season-long loan deal for Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish giants have the option to buy the on-loan 28-year-old permanently this summer for \u00a326m but financial circumstances mean they are reluctant to trigger it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sky Sports News<\/em> has previously reported Man United have no intention to renegotiate the fee agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona are therefore considering making another loan proposal when talks renew at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish club&#8217;s interest in signing Julian Alvarez from Atletico Madrid is also likely to be a factor in their squad planning.<\/p>\n<p>Rashford is under contract at Old Trafford until the summer of 2028.<\/p>\n<p>He has scored 12 goals and got 9 assists for the La Liga leaders this season.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone confirmed Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal&#8217;s interest in Alvarez, who has scored 48 goals in 104 games for Atletico Madrid since his \u00a382m move from Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not inside Julian Alvarez&#8217;s head,&#8221; he said when asked about reports linking him with the Gunners.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I understand it&#8217;s normal that an extraordinary player like Julian Alvarez is wanted by Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona. It&#8217;s normal because he&#8217;s very good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona are interested in a second season-long loan deal for Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}