{"id":2443,"date":"2026-06-10T13:19:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2026-06-10T13:19:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:19:26","slug":"marcus-rashford-ticks-a-lot-of-boxes-for-chelsea-as-blues-legend-talks-up-surprise-raid-for-man-utd-outcast-amid-barcelona-transfer-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=2443","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Rashford \u2018ticks a lot of boxes\u2019 for Chelsea as Blues legend talks up surprise raid for Man Utd outcast amid Barcelona transfer uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"D\">\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>Rashford is coming off a productive campaign in Spain, where he registered 14 goals and 11 assists in all competitions to help <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/lists\/video-marcus-rashford-emulates-lionel-messi-with-sublime-free-kick-for-barcelona-against-real-madrid\/blt0e85f82d63cf028c\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\"><span>Barcelona wins La Liga<\/span><\/a><span>  and the Supercopa de Espana, proving he can still deliver at the highest level after a difficult chapter in Manchester.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>Speaking to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sport\/39352054\/chelsea-marcus-rashford-transfer-news-joe-cole-xabi-alonso\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\"><i><em>SunSport<\/em><\/i><\/a><span>Cole addressed the potential move, stating: \u201cIt\u2019s just a matter of the wages and the valuation. Rashford ticks a lot of boxes, but you don\u2019t want to spend a fortune on him &#8211; he\u2019d do a good job for Chelsea. He needs to keep going, Marcus, he needs to keep his confidence up because he rebuilt himself at Barcelona, and there\u2019s still another level for him to jump to. He\u2019s someone Chelsea should inquire about, but it\u2019ll depend on the deal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rashford is coming off a productive campaign in Spain, where he registered 14 goals and 11 assists in all competitions&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","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=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}