Marcus Rashford's potential move to Aston Villa from Manchester United is a last-minute transfer saga driven by both clubs' need for a boost. Rashford seeks a new challenge after expressing a desire to leave Old Trafford, while Villa desperately needs attacking reinforcements to maintain their Premier League push and Champions League aspirations.
Marcus Rashford and Aston Villa need each other desperately. We really hope it works out and d’you know what? It just might.
He wants to remain in Europe’s top five leagues, meaning a move to Saudi Arabia or Turkey was ruled out at an early stage. We suspect West Ham were similarly deemed as being beneath Rashford. Paris Saint-Germain’s move away from signing star names cut off that avenue. AC Milan only had space for one non-EU player and plumped for Kyle Walker.
The Villa striker will surely now stay despite Arsenal interest following Duran’s departure, but he was taken off at half-time against Wolves having pulled up with a hamstring problem. He barely got going before he was substituted, with his very apparent fatigue at Molineux shared by his teammates in another post-Champions League lull.
It could be said that any player joining a club in such dire need is little more than a warm body, and the last-gasp nature of the move for Rashford doesn’t help in fighting that contention, but had Villa made a play for the England international early in the window we would all have been nodding along at a sage move from a club where he could really shine.
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