Marcus Rashford - signed on loan (injured - out for season?)

[Bosco81]

We’re trying to sign a player on loan who has scored 87 prem goals in 287 games, and 17 goals in 60 games for England.

A bit of perspective ?

[Dante Lavelli]

The main downside, is IF he’s a success I doubt w’d be able to make the deal permanent.  He’s not going to take a 50% haircut on his wages when his current deal lasts until 2028

[PeterWithesShin]

The main downside, is IF he’s a success I doubt w’d be able to make the deal permanent.  He’s not going to take a 50% haircut on his wages when his current deal lasts until 2028

We might be able to trim a bit off the edges though.

[Alex77]

By spending all our money on him, will it leave us short at the back and sides?

[Smithy]

The main downside, is IF he’s a success I doubt w’d be able to make the deal permanent.  He’s not going to take a 50% haircut on his wages when his current deal lasts until 2028

This is a good point, there is probably a sweet spot where we consider the loan successful, but not so successful his price and wage demands sky rocket.

If it goes badly, we know the cost now and go our separate ways in the summer. If it goes brilliantly, we might find ourselves thinking about him the way Stockport fans think about Louie Barry.

It would be a nice problem to have!

[cdbearsfan]

The main downside, is IF he’s a success I doubt w’d be able to make the deal permanent.  He’s not going to take a 50% haircut on his wages when his current deal lasts until 2028

We might be able to trim a bit off the edges though.

It doesn't strike me as completely impossible that we might just keep extending his loan every year, if that suits both parties.

Unless there is some rule against this that I don't know about.

[PeterWithesShin]

If we sign him you can perm any 3 from 5 in the starting 11.

[The Edge]

He just doesn’t fit our system at all, what is Unai’s plan here?

Can’t play the Ollie role, he’s no lone striker and doesn’t press enough.
Not disciplined enough for our wide roles.
Not technical enough as a ‘10’

He could work in a 4231 as the wide left forward. But that leaves Ramsey out as neither are as effective on the right.

Unai Emery is apparently keen on getting him in. That's all I need to know.

He was keen to get Philogene in too.

Yep and it didn't work out so we sold him for 20m which bankrolled the move for Malen. If Rashford doesn't work out he will be sent packing too. Wheeling and dealing taking risks that sometimes work out and sometimes don't is kind of how football works.

[tomd2103]

We’re trying to sign a player on loan who has scored 87 prem goals in 287 games, and 17 goals in 60 games for England.

A bit of perspective ?

Agreed, but it's also a player of who, in the last week or so, his manager said that his attitude meant thst he would rather have the goalkeeping coach on the bench.

[The Edge]

The main downside, is IF he’s a success I doubt w’d be able to make the deal permanent.  He’s not going to take a 50% haircut on his wages when his current deal lasts until 2028

We might be able to trim a bit off the edges though.

I doubt he's coming here just to be a fringe player.

[ChicagoLion]

We’re trying to sign a player on loan who has scored 87 prem goals in 287 games, and 17 goals in 60 games for England.

A bit of perspective ?

Agreed, but it's also a player of who, in the last week or so, his manager said that his attitude meant thst he would rather have the goalkeeping coach on the bench.

We should have signed the goalkeeping coach.

[AV84]

The main downside, is IF he’s a success I doubt w’d be able to make the deal permanent.  He’s not going to take a 50% haircut on his wages when his current deal lasts until 2028

If its so successful that his price has skyrocketed, we've probably had a decent end to the season, and if we're back in the CL again, we can hopefully attract other high class players on lower wages.
If we have a bad end of season and somehow Rashford has been our best player to the point he's now wanted by all of Europe’s top teams, well it's probably not going to be our biggest problem over the summer.

[manic-road]

The main downside, is IF he’s a success I doubt w’d be able to make the deal permanent.  He’s not going to take a 50% haircut on his wages when his current deal lasts until 2028

We might be able to trim a bit off the edges though.

I doubt he's coming here just to be a fringe player.

Not sure if it's a good move, I will have to mullet over.

[Clampy]

The main downside, is IF he’s a success I doubt w’d be able to make the deal permanent.  He’s not going to take a 50% haircut on his wages when his current deal lasts until 2028

We might be able to trim a bit off the edges though.

I doubt he's coming here just to be a fringe player.

Not sure if it's a good move, I will have to mullet over.

It depends how much we have toupee.

[Chris Smith]

Absolutely desperate move, but I guess it's where we are post Duran.

Really surprised that a lot of Villa fans are optimistic about Rashford given that Man U haven't been able to get a tune out him for the last couple of years.

They’ve hardly got a tune out of any of their players for the last couple of years. They’re a basket case.