Marcus Rashford’s future is going to be a major talking point in the January transfer window.
The England star has fallen out of favour at Manchester United and looks set to move on, despite new boss Ruben Amorim suggesting he still had a future at the club.
In an interview with Henry Winter last month, Rashford said: “For me, personally, I think I’m ready for a new challenge and the next steps.” But Amorim responded by saying Rashford’s ‘new challenge’ could be at United.
He said: “I think it’s right. We have here a new challenge. It’s a tough one, for me it’s the biggest challenge in football because we are in a difficult situation and I already said this is one of the biggest clubs in the world.
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Another day, another injury setback. This time, Pape Sarr has been forced to leave training early after picking up an unknown knock. Sigh. I would say that it seems hard to believe we are back with yet another injury report. However, it’s really not that hard to believe anymore, is it? The Tottenham medical team, if they aren’t overworked enough already, will soon welcome another player to the treatment table. Unfortunately, that treatment table might not have enough capacity for many more players at this point in time. You name a Tottenham key player, they’re probably injured. If they aren’t injured right now, they would have spent some time this season recovering from an injury. That’s how bad the situation is and it’s not getting any easier. Tottenham suffer yet another injury blow as midfielder leaves training early According to Tottenham insider Paul O Keefe on X (formerly Twitter), Pape Sarr had to exit training prematurely due to an unknown injury knock. In his own words, O Keefe said: “When it rains and all that. Pape Sarr had to pull out of training today. Unsure of the extent of issue. Ange speaking later.” This season, Sarr has played in every Premier League game for Tottenham. He has started just 14 of those but he’s come off the bench in the other eight matches. Sarr is a great player and he’s been a tremendous asset to Tottenham since joining. However, he’ll be the first to admit he isn’t quite at the level of playing *every* league game. This, if anything, only goes to show how important he has been to help navigate the injury crisis. That said, if this injury is anything serious, then Sarr’s Premier League streak might come to an end. After all, Spurs host Leicester on Sunday, after facing Hoffenheim away from home tomorrow evening. With this knock, I wouldn’t count on Sarr playing in the Europa League match. After all, this is less important to Ange Postecoglou anyway, given Spurs’ position in the Premier League. If he is carrying a knock, it is not worth risking him in midweek. Hopefully, Sarr is able to return in time to face Leicester. Otherwise, there’s no telling what the midfield will look like. At this stage, fans cannot even remember which players are injured and which are available. They have all just merged into one.
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“This is a really new challenge and the biggest one. I really hope all my players are ready for this new challenge.”
Rashford has been linked with a number of clubs in the January transer window so far, with the player’s representatives thought to be out in Italy discussing a potential loan move to AC Milan. However, Tottenham have since emerged as a potential destination on loan in this window.
Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou has already spoken out about Rashford, when he was asked for his thoughts on the England man’s “new challenge” quotes last month.
Postecoglou gave the suggestion he could rock up at Spurs short shrift, although he backed up his quotes by suggesting he would say the same about any other player from another club.
He said: “No interest. Don’t care. Not interested, he is a Manchester United player. A very good player, they have plenty of good players. But I manage my players and other managers will manage their own players. In terms of Marcus’ situation I have no real desire to examine it any further.
“If I looked at everyone we were linked to, I would have no time to do anything else to be honest. I have got other people to do that part of the process. For us, we’ve been pretty disciplined in what we’re trying to build here and we’ll continue to be so.
“[Is that a no?] That’s a not on my radar. You can ask me about Marcus but you can ask me about every single Premier League footballer and I’ll say the same thing.”
