Barcelona will ask Manchester United if they can extend Marcus Rashford's loan for another season to avoid paying the full £26million asking price this summer. Rashford watched from the sidelines on Wednesday night as the two players keeping him out of the team, Lamine Yamal and Raphinha, ran riot sending Barcelona into the quarter-finals at Newcastle's expense. But despite his struggles to consolidate a starting place the club want to keep him. The fact that Joan Laporta won Sunday's election and will remain president until 2031 only strengthens that desire. That has left him up against Raphinha and Yamal for a starting berth and replacing them, as their exhibition against Newcastle showed, is mission impossible.

Source: Daily Mail March 19, 2026 01:10 UTC