Nah you make fair points and if we actually sign him on a perma transfer I won't be very happy, just think on loan and seeing how Flick has improved almost every player + WC year gives me some hope in Rashford.
As you said you don't think we'll loan him tho, who else do you see us going for realistically?
Fair enough, and thanks.
To show some positivity around the player, I have said before that I think Man United are scapegoating he (and Sancho) as everything that's wrong with their club. He's toxic to a point but they have made out like getting rid of him solves all their problems, and that is far from the case. So he and Sancho are sacrificial lambs to a point.
Honestly, I have no idea who they'd go for. I don't have as much world football knowledge of players I had when I was younger, so don't know as many young hotshots. The names being bandied around seem to be Rash, Leao, Lookman and Diaz. I like Lookman and think he'd be a good rotation option, said that before. That said, Messi983 made a good point that some players don't do as well outside of Gasperini's system (and Lookman has been most impressive in his club career at Atalanta).
Out of those four, I like Lookman. They're all talented to different degrees, but they all come with massive drawbacks too. With the financial constraints Barca appear to be operating under, I am not sure who they will go for.
What I do agree with is you need a LW backup. But the pickings are quite slim/flawed. None of those four options really screams as being better than the other three.
Who would you like to see them go for? You seem to lean rashford for fair enough reasons (not gonna pay big wages hopefully, motivate him in a World Cup season, then get rid after a year loan). Is there anyone else you fancy?
