Marcus Rashford will be playing UEFA Champions League football after all, as Barcelona have announced a loan deal with Manchester United for the 2025-26 season.

MARCUS Rashford has rekindled his relationship with former fiancée Lucia Loi — and she was with him when he signed for FC Barcelona, The Sun can reveal. The Three Lions ace, 27, and childhood

Yamal has only just turned 18 and so is almost a full decade younger than Rashford, who will be 28 at his next birthday on October 31. But Rashford still knows what it is like to make an impact, albeit not as big, at a young age given his breakthrough as an 18-year-old at Manchester United.

While fans and pundits have largely celebrated the club’s capture of Marcus Rashford on loan from Manchester United, reports suggest that one of their brightest young stars, Lamine Yamal, is not entirely pleased.

Marcus Rashford has been given the chance to revive his career at Barcelona with a season-long loan move from Manchester United.

Barcelona president Joan Laporta insisted that Marcus Rashford was always the club’s first-choice option during a “complicated” process which also included extensive negotiations with Athletic Club starlet Nico Williams and Liverpool’s Luis Díaz.

Marcus Rashford is officially a Barcelona player having completed his loan move from Manchester United but another Englishman has played for the Catalan giants since Gary Lineker was their star man