Marcus Rashford has sustained a hamstring injury that seems to have brought his season to a premature end, after he was on loan for Aston Villa in January from Manchester United
What for Marcus Rashford? With his season apparently over after a hamstring injury, the England attacker now has to plot the next move in his legendary career.
Unwanted in his boy's club Manchester United, Rashford is confronted with a potentially career-demanding summer while he thinks his immediate future. Without him back at United As long as Ruben Amorim is in charge, Rashford has two options – secure a permanent movement elsewhere or another loan switch if that first goal turns out to be impossible.
Although the medical staff of United maintained contacts with their counterparts in Aston Villa, where Rashford is on loan until the end of the season, the attacker does not return to his parent club to undergo his rehabilitation. Rashford Back in the Carrington Training Complex of United would create an unwanted and unnecessary distraction for Amorim, after all the controversy of the controversial departure of the player after their fall -out.
But unless United A Deal can agree with another club for Rashford When the transfer window is opened at the beginning of June, the 26-year-old has no option than to report back for the training for the season at the beginning of July and possibly even on their three-game summer tour by the US.
Given the bitterness between Rashford and Amorim, it would have the former training with his former teammates, let alone a two -week tour of America with the team, be counterproductive for both parties. Rashford advocates moving to a club abroad that can guarantee him that he can guarantee Champions League football, with Barcelona said he is his favorite option.
But it is still to see whether the Catalan club wants him and, even if they do, whether they are willing to pay his £ 40 million transfer costs and wages of £ 350,000 a week. One of the stumbling blocks for Rashford in terms of his next step, permanently or not, is his exorbitant salary.
Villa covers a significant part of Rashford's wages, supplemented with performance -related bonuses with regard to goals and performances. Against that background, Rashford is willing to make a wage reduction to secure a move this summer and to draw a line under his united career.
But if no club can pay the asking price of United and can meet its wage requirements – even if they are reduced to facilitate such a movement – another loan switch is his only option. It all points to an uncertain future for a player who was the poster boy for English football only five years ago, just as many for his actions outside the field – in success campaign for free school meals for disadvantaged children – as his heroic deeds on it.
At the time, Rashford could not do anything wrong, a role model on and next to the field, a radiant light in the often dirty and indigestible world of modern football. Now, with the door closed at the club where he has been since he was seven, Rashford is at a personal and professional intersection, with a decision this summer that will probably make or break his career.
In that sense, the bet could not be higher.