{"id":619781,"date":"2026-08-04T11:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/619781\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T11:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:10:13","slug":"man-utd-new-plan-for-marcus-rashford-revealed-as-carrick-and-ineos-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/619781\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd: New plan for Marcus Rashford revealed as Carrick and INEOS clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Manchester United<\/a> now plan to do with Marcus Rashford has come to light, with Michael Carrick and INEOS at odds.<\/p>\n

The original plan regarding Rashford<\/strong> <\/a>and his future was to sell to Barcelona by way of the \u20ac30m \/ \u00a326m option to buy in last season\u2019s loan deal.<\/p>\n

Personal terms were pre-agreed, with Rashford signing off on taking a pay-cut to make the deal happen.<\/p>\n

However, Barcelona ultimately chose not to push the button, instead signing Anthony Gordon from Newcastle for \u00a369m.<\/p>\n

Man Utd<\/strong><\/a> continued to explore exit opportunities once the Barcelona deal fell through. The presence of a \u00a340m release clause \u2013 open to every club not named Liverpool or Manchester City \u2013 made forging a deal straightforward.<\/p>\n

However, that clause lapsed on July 15 without any takers coming forward. Since then, interest in signing Rashford has been registered from Fenerbahce, and sides in MLS and Saudi Arabia, but Rashford has no desire to move to Turkey, the USA or Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a situation that leaves Rashford and Man Utd\u2019s plans to sign a new left winger in limbo. No new signing in the position will be made if Rashford and his base salary of \u00a3325,000-a-week are still on the books.<\/p>\n

Now, our colleagues over on TEAMtalk have brought news on what the future holds for Rashford<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Michael Carrick thrilled at Marcus Rashford staying<\/strong><\/p>\n

They revealed Michael Carrick<\/strong><\/a> is \u2018genuinely excited\u2019 at the prospect of managing Rashford, and the United boss doesn\u2019t actually want Rashford to leave.<\/p>\n

Neither he nor any of his coaching staff care one bit about Rashford earning so much more than the next highest paid player in the squad.<\/p>\n

That is in contrast to the club\u2019s decision-makers, who continue to explore exit opportunities for Rashford, who is now the club\u2019s highest earner on the back of Casemiro\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, it appears Carrick is set to get his way, with Rashford closing the doors to moving to lesser leagues.<\/p>\n

The report noted Barcelona do still hold interest in Rashford, though after signing Gordon, the only move they\u2019d make is another loan, which Man Utd have zero intention of accepting.<\/p>\n

As such, the new plan is for Rashford to not only be reintegrated into the first-team, but become a critical figure in Carrick\u2019s starting eleven too.<\/p>\n

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TEAMtalk stated: \u2018As things stand, Rashford is expected to remain at Old Trafford, and the internal plan is for him to become a significant part of Carrick\u2019s first-team project.\u2019<\/p>\n

The first step will be Rashford reporting to Carrington for pre-season training, which is expected to happen this week.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the report revealed Rashford is \u2018expected to be involved\u2019 in United\u2019s upcoming friendly against back-to-back Champions League winners, PSG, on Saturday, August 8.<\/p>\n

Barring a late U-turn, Rashford will be a Man Utd player beyond the summer window closing, and in Carrick, he has a manager who is more than happy to throw him straight into the starting line-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What Manchester United now plan to do with Marcus Rashford has come to light, with Michael Carrick and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,793,6,794,19,17,11,12,15,16,20,25141,47746,5,795,7,8],"class_list":["post-619781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-front-page","tag-headlines","tag-home-page","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-manchester-united","tag-marcus-rashford","tag-michael-carrick","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117036936583390104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}