Tottenham Hotspur looking to sign Marcus Rashford in the summer if Aston Villa fail to trigger buy option | OneFootball

Marcus Rashford seems to have re-found his mojo since his January loan move to Aston Villa with the Manchester United loanee managing three goals and six assists from 16 appearances in all competitions.

The Mancunian had struggled for gametime under Ruben Amorim with the head coach far from happy with his application in training. This led to the Englishman giving an interview in which he claimed he wanted to leave his boyhood club.

There was no way back for the Carrington graduate after this and he ended up linking up with Unai Emery at Villa. The Birmingham-based outfit even have the option of making his loan move permanent for £40 million.

Despite having his new boss’ trust and making a comeback into the England national team, the 27-year-old remains keen to move out of Villa with Barcelona seen as his dream destination.

Rashford could leave Villa

However, the Catalan giants have financial troubles of their own and had failed to make a move in January and it remains to be seen if they can satisfy United’s demands while paying the England international his humongous wages.

There is no way back for the Englishman at United with INEOS keen to sell him to raise funds for Amorim to utilise during the summer window.

This could potentially allow other teams to try and hijack the deal and as per Football Transfers, Tottenham Hotspur could use this opportunity to enter the race.

They have earmarked Rashford as Heung-min Son’s successor and want to try their luck should Villa opt against signing him permanently.

Spurs want Rashford

“Tottenham Hotspur are interested in signing Marcus Rashford this summer if Aston Villa decide against purchasing him on a permanent deal, FootballTransfers understands.

“The England international is expected to leave Manchester United during the upcoming summer transfer window and we have been told that Spurs are eyeing a potential deal as they look to sign a replacement for Heung-min Son.”

Interestingly, Spurs were interested in a January deal as well but opted to pursue a loan deal for Bayern Munich’s Mathys Tel instead.

United will have no problems with the interest Rashford is generating and a bidding war will suit them just fine given the versatile attacker’s homegrown status which means his fee will count as pure profit.

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