A few months after Manchester United gave Marcus Rashford a new contract with £325,000 in weekly wages, the former academy player began to underperform. The huge salary expense of the 27-year-old gave the club a poor 8 goals and 5 assists last season. The current season also started slowly, then came Ruben Amorim. Here it started with goals on Rashford, but then came the signals that the club’s highest-paid player has not convinced.
Amorim has stated that he needs to rest players, but when Marcus Rashford starts against both Arsenal and Nottingham Forest on the bench and got 31 minutes on the pitch, it is a signal that Rashford is not in a position to defend the giant salary here either.
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Rashford has been heavily linked with an exit over the past year, but has remained and bent his neck. Now, Sky Sports journalist Florian Plettenberg claims that Manchester United management have been running talks about a potential transfer for Rashford as early as January.
“Manchester United will sell Marcus Rashford by the summer at the latest and will already be open to big bids in the winter,” Plettenberg begins on X.
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“One reason why a sale is being discussed: If he were to leave the club because of his very high salary, it would free up critical points in the complicated Financial Fair Play system, which in turn would give the Red Devils more room to manoeuvre in the transfer market,” the Sky Sports journalist said.
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