Marcus Rashford has said Spanish La Liga giants Barcelona is a club where dreams come true.
Rashford joined Barcelona on an initial 12-month loan from Manchester United, with the Catalan giants having the option of signing him on a permanent basis for £30.3m in 2026.
“I’m very excited,” Rashford told Barcelona’s YouTube channel (via BBC Sport). “It’s a club where people’s dreams come true, they win big prizes.
“What the club stands for means a lot for me. I feel like I’m at home and a big factor in my choice to come here is because it is a family place and a good place for good players to showcase their skills.
“Another factor is because the conversations I had with [Hansi Flick] were positive. What he did last season was terrific. To lead such a young team to a very successful season and come back to pre-season and still want to do more, it shows me everything I thought I knew about the club and it’s everything I wished.
“I’m eager to learn the Barcelona way.”
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Rashford’s exit from Old Trafford has been a relatively long time coming.
Ruben Amorim dropped him for the Manchester derby on 15 December last year – and he has not played for United since.
The former Sporting Lisbon coach later criticised Rashford for a perceived lack of effort, suggesting that he would rather give a place on the bench to his 63-year-old goalkeeping coach than someone who “doesn’t give the maximum every day”.
He joined Aston Villa on loan in January, making 17 appearances and earning an England recall, but returned to Old Trafford last month with his long-term future still uncertain.
However, that uncertainty has been more about where he would go rather than whether he would stay, with Rashford one of five players who told the club they wanted to leave – and who were subsequently told to train separately from the rest of the squad.
