{"id":2415,"date":"2026-06-10T11:07:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2026-06-10T11:07:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:07:27","slug":"marcus-rashford-to-make-man-utd-return-as-barcelona-decide-against-triggering-purchase-option-after-anthony-gordon-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=2415","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Rashford to make Man Utd return as Barcelona decide against triggering purchase option after Anthony Gordon transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"B\">\n<div>\n<p><span>On paper, the financial comparison between the two players was surprisingly close. Rashford had already agreed to a 40% wage reduction to facilitate his stay in Spain, and his annual amortisation would have sat around \u20ac10 million. In contrast, Gordon arrives on a much lower weekly salary, but his \u20ac70 million transfer fee means he carries a higher annual amortisation cost of \u20ac14 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When combining wages and fees, the yearly cost to the club was almost identical. However, Blaugrana felt that Gordon represented better value as a long-term asset. The deadline to trigger the Rashford clause expires this Monday, and the club has made it clear that no late U-turns are expected.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On paper, the financial comparison between the two players was surprisingly close. Rashford had already agreed to a 40% wage&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}