Marcus Rashford has been linked with a sensational move to Arsenal at the end of this season after he reportedly met secretly with Mikel Arteta.
The Englishman had a poor 2023/2024 season and was one of the struggling stars at Manchester United.
His poor form cost him a place in the England squad for Euro 2024, and his future at United is also uncertain.
The Red Devils consider him an important member of their squad, but with a new minority owner taking over the club, changes might occur.
Erik Ten Hag may be replaced, and Rashford could leave, leading to several reports linking him with a move away from United.
Could he move to Arsenal instead? A report on Football London claims the striker recently had a secret meeting with Arteta, and both parties kept the door open to working together.
Arsenal is on the lookout for a new striker, and it will be interesting to see if Rashford is the player who makes the move to the Emirates.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Many of us will take the Rashford we watched in the 2022/2023 season, but not the one of last season.
It makes no sense to sign him now on the back of the season that he just had.
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That would be a fantastic signing! We need an explosive and pacy winger specifically for Champions League football where teams that play transition based football tend to do better at the latter stages. Take Madrid and Bayern as examples with their depth of wingers. Madrid has Vinicius and Rodrigo. While Bayern has Coman, Gnarby, Sane.
I was hoping for either Rafael Leao or Rashford but will prefer Rashford if he stays fit and focused on his career given his undoubted talent, EPL/CL experience and ability to play as a CF. This signing will unlock a new dimension to our attack and give Arteta a lot of quality attacking options and tactical flexibility.
For instance, Jesus can become a backup winger to Saka since IMHO, he’s more dangerous on the right and can whip in dangerous crosses into the box, than being a CF.
Martinelli is a curious case as he can play on the right as well and showed he’s capable by his display on the last game of the season. I expect Trossard to keep his place on the left as an Inside Forward. This means Arteta can retrain Martinelli as center forward due to his better finishing than Jesus, in the mould of a Luis Suarez. Signing a CF like Osimhen or Sesko will be nice, but it makes the team more predictable and will create a problem for Havertz as it will reduce his playing time and Arteta might have to shoehorn him to play the left 8 role, which will upset the rhythm of the team as we saw against Villa.
The other signings will be a CM, I’ll prefer Bruno Guimares due to his EPL experience, passing ability and aggression. I also want a young ballplaying CB that can play as a full back, so we can release Xinchenko and he can deputize for Saliba in case of injury since Tomiyau fitness is an issue.
Rushford has been accused of being lazy and not working his socks off in the defensive work.
Not sure whether his attacking impact will outweigh failure to frequently support fullback in our defensive work, Martinelli/Trossad style.
I think Rashford we be a better signing for our beloved arsenal football club my opinion
£380 grand a week apart from the stupid transfer fee, let’s not be utterly ridiculous!
I forgot, and his indiscipline.
And off field distractions. Would be very risky for a top class forward.
…but the nearest to Henry the PL has seen since the great man quit. If he could just get back to how he was two seasons back.
He can be a good signing, due to his EPL experience, then the versatility upfront thus can play or compete with martinelli on the left-hand flank while trosard can play CF with havertz.
This story is for the birds!
Striker and a Mildfielder is what we should be priotising. Me, i do not like Rashford. Thanks.
No thanks, too expensive in both fee and certainly his wages.
Why bail out Utd and give them the money to reinvest elsewhere? Best we look elsewhere and get better value for the money.
Spot on bro ! We can’t act stupidly the way Wenger did by empowering our bitter rivals !! Let’s go for a young ,dynamic ,fast ,clinical finisher from elsewhere — and they are many .
A dynamic left back is a priority now and another CB to shore up
It makes a lot of sense. Firstly,most of the teams we struggled against i.e. Fulham,Villa,Porto and Bayern set up mid blocks to nullify our game. Beating the mid block is the final step for this team to win a title. The best way of beating such teams is through pace in transition, which we don’t have beyond Martinelli,whose decision making in the final third hasn’t been great lately bar the final game. Rashford’s pace could be the difference in getting that extra 6 points against the Villas and Fulhams which gets us to 95+ points.He’s exactly the the profile that will be useful in the Champions League as well. Bayern with Sane,Coman and Gnabry is a good example of what we could get with Rashford.
Secondly,his versatility could mean we may not need to sign another striker. He’s played there and could be useful in that position against certain opposition. The fact that he’s a different profile to Havertz means we can have different ways of hurting teams-essentially plan A to Z. Thirdly he’s premier league proven and homegrown which means he can adapt quickly like Rice. The fact that we could lose as many as four English players this summer means he’ll be needed to replace them in the homegrown quota.
There are valid concerns about his wages and form from the comments. From my understanding,Arsenal is one of the teams with a healthy wage bill. With the departures of Cedric,Elneny and potentially the likes of Partey,Eddie,Nelson and Ramsdale, there’ll be even more wages freed up considering all these players bar Elneny are reportedly on at least £100,000. Last I checked,Arsenal only has one player in the top ten highest paid Epl players. If we want to win,inevitably we’ll need a couple of match winners on high wages. Rashford has proven ,even against Arsenal, that he can win a game single handedly against the run of play. We lack that ; we need that. It’s worth it if can get us that extra six points or the CL final.
About form,they say form is temporary but class is permanent. We’ve seen that with Havertz who has outperformed his best Chelsea output in his debut season with us. Environment is important and the United environment has not been great which will make any player look bad. The most recent example is Sancho who was atrocious for United but has been unbelievable for Dortmund, leading them to the Champions League final. With the right coaching,tactics,environment and culture,there’s no reason why Rashford can’t regain his earlier form.It helps that there’s already a strong English core in the squad which will help him settle. I’m all for it!
Rashford will be very expensive and comes with “baggage”.
Difficult to assess his attitude and motivation from a distance.
He is a player who tends to deliver in moments but will need to graft more at Arsenal. Would he be able to consistently put in the necessary work?
Thought Trossard had “baggage” as well. I’m not saying his issues can’t be problematic, but perhaps they are things that can be worked through. If indeed Arteta talked to him in person,I’m sure he will have considered his character. That’s why I brought up the idea of environment and culture as well. Perhaps the healthy environment at Arsenal could have a positive influence on him.
It’s true that he can be a moments player. That is often seen as a disadvantage but it can be a strength as well. So far we don’t have a moments player. Someone who can produce moments of magic when the team isn’t playing well. He can do that. Think of someone like Drogba at Chelsea. He was not one to score lots of goals but he’d produce something when it mattered most. With the right setup, he could flourish. All transfers have an element of risk.
Very sensible…!
Arsenal think £28 million for Rashford is too much due to his age and dip in form and will look too making an offer for Florian WIRTZ for £75 million.
Taking Rashford is a risk bearing in mind his ,age ,and recent form that has been dipping steadily unless of course he is playing against Arsenal !? We need long term ( young ) proven lethal striker like Henry now to help us win numerous cups ,more so Uefa ,and Epl severally.
We have been derided and looked down upon as ” always next seasoners !” Time for the Cannons to gun down every obstacle is now
Let’s go back to the years between 1998 – 2004.
Arteta and Edu have their work cut out for them now . The money to buy the right players and at reasonable fees ,is available !
Meanwhile ,the rising stars from our academy like Nwaneri and co must be given a chance now , the way Saka and the like have ,in order to have continuity.
If ,and it’s a big ” if ” ,we have to go for a Man U adherent ,then he can only be ” a stop gap solution ” not to last more than two years .
Otherwise ,with good atleast 3 additions — leathal Centre stiker ,DM ,and LB ,all dynamic ,we will be going places.
Lastly ,(and this is bound to be conraversial ) there are those Jersies that when our boys appear in ,then thing go haywire!! The white ones ?’ Did any help me notice that ,a part from our traditional home kits , the yellow zebrad ones “made us ” very slick ???
Same age as White & Magalhaes, 26. Who said £28m was too much? Seems a decent fee to me.
Rashford is way better than £28m, fee would be double that at least, closer to triple
the only reason Rashford is even talked about less than £100m is the form and discipline question marks
but even at £56m (double) would be a bargain if Arteta can restore Rashford to the form of just one season ago
in many ways ideal solution for us, would go straight in at Left Wing (Martinelli will need to up his game to win back his position), can switch to Striker for Havertz, and can even play Right Wing for Saka
front 3 of Saka – Havertz – Rashford could beat any team on their day (not everyday, but on their day), true next level stuff
PL proven with a 30 goal season under their belt, only name in the market
i wouldn’t even consider reading this article if not already widely reported Arteta and Rashford have had a conversation – if they really have had a conversation then it shows intent from both sides
can Arteta do an Odegaard and Havertz career rival with Rashford?
i guess both must believe ‘yes’ to even talk about it
wages will be an issue, but reported £325k is affordable, no chance of an increase, but Rashford will know that, if he comes to Arsenal it is not for the money, and if he quibbles over money then a straight ‘no’ not joining
transfer fee will top £50m for sure
but if Edu and Arteta are convinced he has the mentality to join our group then I would as only player on the market who ticks all boxes:
– PL proven
– 30 goals a year proven
– play across the front three, incl left wing (arguably strongest position)
– peak years now
– improves squad and walks in to starting XI
when you think of it that way then no other rumoured ‘striker’ gets close, all about whether he has the ‘mentality’
Make it happen.
I would take Rashford any day.
He will save us a lot of trouble now that he can play anywhere across the front 3.
He just needs to adjust on his off field behaviour and concentrate on building his career.
Good move
The only downside i see to this deal happening is his wages.
Aside that i think he will b motivated to deliver and i see Arteta taming any lingering attitudes that will/may disrupt the harmony in his team.
If he is willing to take a pay cut then the deal will go through swiftly.
This guy is good infront of goals better than k. Harvtz
Noooooooooo!!!!!!!
I’d take Rashford in a hurry!
With what Arteta did turning a Havertz into a deadly striker, reinventing Odeegard’s talents, turning the whole of the Arsenal team into premier league contenders, I have no doubt that Rashford would rediscover himself and be a terror to defenders everywhere.
Take him please if he’s available at the right price.
I think Rashford would be an incredible signing for Arsenal. A front line of Rashford, Havertz and Saka would rival any in the league. Marcus is the closest thing England have to Mbappe and if Arteta can make him feel loved and valued, just like he has done with Havertz, instead of him being the scapegoat when everything goes wrong, I think he could, along with Havertz, reach 20+ league goals each year and who knows, maybe even more!
Southgate leaving him out of the Euros is an absolute travesty. He may not have had a great season but that isn’t all down to him and he is the best left-sided attacker England has and a truly devastating player when he is on it.
He would be a valuable addition. He’s talented and smart.