ESPN FC’s Dan Thomas and Craig Burley look ahead to Barcelona’s next match vs. Villarreal as Frenkie De Jong has been ruled out for 5-6 weeks due to a muscular injury. They also react to the club triggering Marcus Rashford’s €30 million release clause.
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It's his prime years
Good for him and good for United Respect
Excellent news for Manchester United
Who wouldn’t trade living in Manchester to living in Barcelona?! He’s living his best life right now.
My defense would be balde eric araujo kounde
craige said "extremely mediocre real madrid side " , but dont forget craige , their referees are exceptional thats why they are in the title race …… and for the negriera comment that's coming , where is the evidence after 3yrs ???
He will do great at Barca
I do agree with what Craig said, Barca needs to be calculated and reasoned with their rashford contract situation. Yes rashford has done all right and has helped the team recently through his contributions but all these stories of EPL being angry and Man United being angry because rashford's fee is only 30 million is utter BS… rashford in all honesty is around a 25-30 million player at his current state those rumors are going around to pressure the buyer into thinking that they have a jackpot deal and close it out as fast as possible. Barca already has tons of players on high wages we don't need an extra one that's mainly going to be used as a sub. If It was between having a CB in the summer or better yet a good striker like osimen, then I'd choose one of those instead of rashford easily. If he actually agrees to lower his wages significantly and adding him to the roster won't hurt us from signing someone in the summer then yes add him but if it will then no. I don't care what other fans will say..I'm no fan of players, I'm a supporter of the Club!
Why would Rashford want to go back to Man United over FC Barcelona 😂😂
Barcelona are 100x better😂😂
Rashford is trash and Barca are trash
Happy for rashy that he got his move and has been playing so well
Well we can sell him for more so we don’t care
i think craig's got it all wrong.
1) rashford's attitude dropped at manu after carrying a team full of players that weren't real, coaches that weren't qualified, and fans looking to blame someone for the fact that the 'inventors' of football were no longer contenders.
2) aston villa loved his play of game but he was too expensive and had injuries.
3) everything, literally everything, about rashford's time with barcelona indicates that he has no attitude issues whatsoever.
to sum it up, rashford never had attitude issues. he was surrounded by a club and fans that couldn't accept that they were no longer god's gift to football. that is to say, he was surrounded by others with attitude problems.
and hansi flick will take this to the bank.
and, if barcelona repeat or improve on their extraordinary success of last year, craig won't acknowledge that he's been wrong about rashford and barcelona, and neither will england.
Begger barcelona at it again….no dignity whatsoever
Im happy that Rashford is finally free
Rashford didn’t mail it in. Man Utd is just a toxic team. People also need to realize that it’s a lot easier to play as an attacker when you know your team wants to be on the front foot. You know that putting in the hard yards means being rewarded with more of the ball and more scoring opportunities. It’s a whole different story when you’re asked to defend for 80% of the game with very few attacking opportunities.
Rashford still hasnt hit his top form… He will play a major role in Barca winning the C.L
Good riddance
When Rashford wanted to Barca first, Ale was Laughing and Mocking him.. and said it would never happen and rashford should only keep dreaming about it…
Now, Rashford plays for Barca, and Permanent deal on talks..
AND THAT DUMB ALE is nowhere to be seen.
Barcelona did a great job adding Marcus Rashford to the squad, he can now focus on just football than contract issues. He's got a lot of talent plus experience, this will make him valuable in champion's league matches with penalty shot execution.
I would not buy Rashford
Why does Barca not play him as number 9? I wonder that lol
I can't believe Manchester United got any good money for him with how terrible he was for Man United before leaving.
Yes pls keep him!
1:05 Yeah you’d wish for Barca to drop points, wouldn’t you?
Well said, as a Barca fan I'd almost forgotten what Rashford's like. 30Ms are a lot for us, so is the value of a player. But I am sure he'll not chuck it out this season.
It looks like good signing, giving the amount and the Quality of rashford
I really don’t know what some people see. The talking head obviously doesn’t care for Barcelona He’s one of the worst. He like English 1 nll football. Blind Barcelona fans I’m glad Hasi is our coach and has some sense. Rasford has won at least 3 to 4 games for us this year himself has assisted in many goals has won the ball and will attack. There must be something else at play for you to be trying to act like he hasn’t been important to us this year. I’ve seen this from certain Barcelona fans, especially some of the Euro “fans”
We don’t need to buy anything that’s really works for Rasford is a rare win for us. We know the history. Who’s at the academy we can bring up . Or who’s in Brazil who coming up . Most Euro players don’t work for us. Different mindset.
Good riddance. The bloke downed tools at United
It's a shame how you British men speaks terrible of Michael R 😅😅😅