During the weekend, Barcelona reached an agreement with Manchester United to sign Marcus Rashford on a loan-to-buy deal. The 27-year-old has already traveled to Catalonia and an announcement of his arrival is expected in the next 24/48 hours.
Rashford is expected to play a very important role in Barcelona, since he is signed to challenge Raphinha before the starting role on the left wing. And a man who expects him to be a success at the La Liga champions is Man United Icon Rio Ferdinand, according to the sport.
“Marcus has to come in and look at doing different things for the strikers already in this team. And he has full capacity to do this. I am sure he can surprise. He has to move without the ball behind the defenders. To be a threat behind them.
“He has to withdraw the opponent when he is on the field. And he has to shoot because he has a deadly shot with his right foot. He must shoot a lot. He would be wrong if he became one of those strikers that drips a lot and complicates things.”
Ferdinand also gave some advice to Rashford prior to his move to Barcelona.
“Marcus has to keep his game simple in Barcelona. Use the walls and then passes to Lewandowski and then run the flank. Rashford has that intelligence in attacking the game and we have already seen it. If he simplifies his play in these offensive tasks and adds to that defensive effort without the ball, he will certainly succeed.
“If he succeeds in adapting and easy to play his game, this operation will be a bargain for Barcelona.”
It will be very interesting to see how Rashford goes on, but at least on paper he is very capable of being a solid signature.