HERE WE GO! Marcus Rashford To Barcelona!

Every single Manchester United fan knows how important it is this summer for us to move on the players that don't have a future with this club and Marcus Rashford was one of those and we've got the here we go from Fabrizio Romano on a loan to Barcelona. Now first things first, I want you to let me know what you think about this in the comments. I'm going to tell you some more details about it and then I just want to have a little chat, right? So David Ornstein revealed this during the game against Leeds saying that Barcelona are advancing on a deal to sign Rashford. The offer is a loan with a buy option United have agreed. Not done but deal is at final stages and Fabrizio followed that up during the game with a here we go saying that the verbal agreement in principle between all parties is in place and the medical is coming in the next few days. A loan deal with a buy option and then David Ornstein followed that up with probably one of the most important bits of info of this whole deal. Barcelona are set to pay all of Rashford's salary because on the surface right you can look at this and go like for real we're loaning Rashford out again, we're not getting the cash in that we need and we're probably going to end up subsidizing his wages anyway. Well no, separate reports now these haven't been confirmed but it probably is the case because there ain't no way Barcelona are going to be paying 300-350k a week. Rashford's taken quite a big pay cut to make this move happen. Good, well done Rashford. Sancho, take a look you whopper. Anyway, separate reports are suggesting that the buy option itself is only like 35 million euros which seems like a low ball offer for me. I genuinely felt, hey Sam's wrong, oh my god something has never happened before, I genuinely felt that this was going to be one that dragged until the end of the window because I felt like Barcelona were going to try and take advantage of the leverage etc etc but they've agreed a deal. Rashford's gone, going, well, on loan. Positives and negatives about this. Positive, we're saving on Rashford's wages. I don't know what that's worth to United but he is the top owner at the club isn't he? Or is it Casemiro? He's one of the top three owners at the football club. That's going to be coming off our wage bill for the entire season. That's got to save probably north of 10 million pounds, right? You'd think so, which can be reinvested, can be invested elsewhere. Good. Problem is, kicks the can down the road a little bit. Now you might say, well hold on here Sam, is this not the exact same situation as Villa and then he's just going to come back next summer and we're going to be in the same situation again? Honestly, my prediction when it comes to Rashford, when it comes to Barcelona is that he's actually going to do very well there. This is the move that Rashford has wanted since December, right? He was pushing for Barcelona, pushing, pushing and it just didn't work. It didn't happen. He ended up going to Villa, which is absolutely not where he wanted to be at any point. This summer did the exact same thing. It was all about Barcelona. He sat down and did that interview with like, what was it, the two Spanish YouTube lads who had like six mil subscribers who were both Barcelona fans and just sitting there talking about, oh I actually quite like the weather in Spain. Yeah, actually I can play centre forward and it was an obvious schmooze but it worked. Well, I'll tell you what happened is Barcelona's move for Nico Williams collapsed and Liverpool priced Barcelona out of a move for Luis Diaz. Third choice, Marcus Rashford on loan, wages covered. Don't know anything about a loan fee. I don't know anything about that. Now, I'm happy for Rashford. I genuinely am happy for Rashford. You might not believe me when I'm saying that, but I really am. It was an ugly, ugly end, which I never would have predicted from how beautiful the start was. It's just sometimes the way football works. Rashford was culpable. Man United probably did a few things as well behind the scenes and it's not the way that the story should have gone. However, I'm so happy that he is gone now, that it's done, that we can just move on because, yeah, my prediction would be that Barcelona are going to make 35 million euros. It's so underpriced for Rashford, man, in this mad market where you've got players going for nutty money. Rashford's going to be 35 mil. I think he's going to do, I think he's going to crush it there. I really do. Maybe he won't play. I don't know. Maybe he will just sit on the bench, but he's happy and Ruben Arriman is going to be happy. That's Rashford done. Garnaccio, we need to find a club for him. Sancho, or as he's more commonly known, Melting McMeltus, well on this channel anyway. I'm just, I was really, really worried and this is probably the most, if you're going to pull the biggest positive out of this, is the fact that United aren't subsidising this. I really, really felt that United were going to have to subsidise Rashford and Sancho and maybe even Anthony Real betters if no one else comes in. Barca recovering all the wages because he's taken a wage cut. Is that a little bit of awareness? Maybe it's a little bit of awareness, but it's also Marcus Rashford facilitating the dream move for him away from Manchester United. Villa was a stopgap. Villa probably knew that. That's why they didn't exercise the option, but I don't think that Barca, I don't think that he would have accepted the move even if they did want to pay the 40 mil. I hope that we're not in the same situation next summer. I'm frustrated for the fact that United haven't been able to sell Marcus Rashford for the money that he is worth so we can reinvest that directly into the squad this summer, which is ultimately what a football club needs to do in summer window. We've got so much, so many over inflated, overrated, I don't know what words to use to describe them properly, but just players on huge wages that no other club really wants and they are unwilling to compromise. At the very least here, Marcus Rashford has compromised. Without him doing that, United would have had to subsidise those wages. So at the very least, he's done that. I genuinely do wish him all the best and I really hope. So that's Rashford. So before the pre-season tour starts now, that's the Rashford deal done. That's Kunja signed, made his debut. Diego Leone, of course, was starting in January, so it doesn't quite count. And Bumo is going to be on the plane as well. We're hearing, we've been hearing reports of Juve and Sancho getting closer and closer for a while now and that's still not done, so I don't really know what's going on there. Anthony, Raul Betis are sitting there just saying nothing currently, so I don't know what's going on there. Nothing on Garnaccio, nothing on Malasea, nothing on the likes of Shaw or Casemiro, who I don't think are going to leave really. But I'm just, I'm glad this one's not dragged out. I'm glad we've saved the wages. I'm glad that we can move on and the story and the narrative and the distractions around Rashford can disappear. So United don't need any more. No distractions at Carrington. It's a tough enough club as it is without the added extra drama around this. So just take as much of it as you possibly can away and that's what this deal does. So I'm happy. Let me know what you think in the comments. I think a lot of you are going to be frustrated the fact that we weren't able to raise cash, but also you're going to be very aware of why we haven't been able to raise the cash and how of all the scenarios, this might be the one compromise-wise that makes most sense for us.