{"id":90120,"date":"2025-07-25T01:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/90120\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T01:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:36:09","slug":"laporta-heaps-praise-on-barcelona-new-signing-a-player-of-great-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/90120\/","title":{"rendered":"Laporta heaps praise on Barcelona new signing – ‘A player of great quality’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following weeks of speculation and negotiations, Marcus Rashford is finally a Barcelona player<\/a>, joining the club on a season-long loan from Manchester United, with an option to buy next summer.<\/p>\n

The deal marks a major coup for Bar\u00e7a in a challenging financial summer, with club president Joan Laporta playing a key role behind the scenes. <\/p>\n

And now, speaking in an interview with Mundo Deportivo<\/a>, Laporta has heaped praise on Rashford, both as a player and as a person.<\/p>\n

Laporta waxes lyrical about Rashford<\/p>\n

When asked what he likes the most about Barcelona\u2019s new signing, Laporta pointed to his strong character and motivation as major reasons for bringing him in.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very happy because a player of great quality is coming to Bar\u00e7a at a great age, with extraordinary motivation,\u201d<\/strong> he said. \u201cI\u2019ve personally seen the excitement he has about coming to Bar\u00e7a.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Barcelona president went on to reflect on Rashford\u2019s roots at Manchester United and how circumstances led him to embrace a new challenge.<\/p>\n

\"joanJoan Laporta is very happy with Barcelona\u2019s new signing, Marcus Rashford (Photo by Eric Alonso\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of his virtues is his sincerity. His dream was to play for United his whole life. He arrived at seven and was born there with an interesting life. He wanted to be a \u2018One Club Man\u2019. It\u2019s nice when a player says this with all sincerity,\u201d<\/strong> Laporta said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut when a situation in his life that he didn\u2019t expect occurs, the team he\u2019s always liked is Bar\u00e7a. He had played against us and Bar\u00e7a was on his radar,\u201d<\/strong> he added.<\/p>\n

Laporta also mentioned Rashford\u2019s hunger for silverware and his winning mentality, revealing that he wants to win the Champions League with Bar\u00e7a.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe went on loan to Aston Villa to show that he\u2019s the best player ever, the best in England, and he says his greatest motivation is to win the Champions League with Bar\u00e7a and the World Cup with England,\u201d<\/strong> Laporta revealed.<\/p>\n

The president concluded by remembering Rashford\u2019s impact against Barcelona in the Europa League clash two years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s come in strong, he\u2019s very excited, he\u2019s played well with his teammates, and I\u2019m very happy because two years ago he beat us in the Europa League. He made the difference in the tie, and that\u2019s why I\u2019m so happy he came,\u201d<\/strong> he said.<\/p>\n

Barcelona will hope Rashford can replicate that form in their colours, as the club look to once again dominate on the domestic front and reclaim their lost glory in Europe next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following weeks of speculation and negotiations, Marcus Rashford is finally a Barcelona player, joining the club on a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":90121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1386,4444,5727,7114,3901,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-90120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-barcelona-news","10":"tag-fc-barcelona","11":"tag-joan-laporta","12":"tag-marcus-rashford","13":"tag-soccer","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114911312910957352","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}