{"id":16313,"date":"2025-10-24T08:35:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=650676"},"modified":"2025-10-24T08:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:05:48","slug":"marcus-rashford-confirms-desire-to-stay-at-barcelona-beyond-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/marcus-rashford-confirms-desire-to-stay-at-barcelona-beyond-this-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Rashford confirms desire to stay at Barcelona beyond this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona forward Marcus Rashford has officially expressed his intention to remain at the club beyond the current season, ending weeks of speculation about his future. The English star, who joined Bar\u00e7a after a long spell at Manchester United, revealed in an interview with ESPN that he feels rejuvenated and fully settled in Catalonia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople forget this\u2026 but 23 years of my life was with Manchester United\u2026 and sometimes you just need a change in football and in life,\u201d Rashford said. \u201cIt\u2019s not the first time I spoke with Bar\u00e7a about potentially coming here\u2026 for whatever reasons it didn\u2019t happen in the past, and now is my opportunity to do my best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rashford\u2019s comments highlight the emotional shift he\u2019s undergone since moving to Spain. After struggling for consistency in his final seasons at Old Trafford, the 27-year-old has rediscovered his form under Barcelona\u2019s attacking system, contributing both goals and assists while fitting seamlessly into the team\u2019s dynamic front line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona forward Marcus Rashford has officially expressed his intention to remain at the club beyond the current season, ending weeks\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":37225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2286,3686,682,1823,3796,564,3919,1139,4061],"class_list":["post-16313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-barcelona-fc","tag-david-ornstein","tag-el-clasico","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-football","tag-hansi-flick","tag-la-liga","tag-marcus-rashford","tag-rashy"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}