Marcus Rashford has signed a brand new five-year contract that takes him into the ranks of Manchester United’s highest-paid gamers. The 25-year-old loved the most efficient season of his eight-year United occupation in 2022-23, scoring 30 targets, the primary participant to take action for the membership since Robin van Persie a decade in the past.
That adopted a dark 2021-22 all over which his long run on the membership he joined as a boy was once within the steadiness, with the then period in-between supervisor, Ralf Rangnick, declaring remaining March that the ahead was once unfastened to leave “in the summer”.
Rashford flourished in Erik ten Hag’s first season as supervisor and a freelance to 2028 method he will have to spend his height years at United.
Rashford mentioned: “I’ve already had some superb studies at this implausible membership, however there may be nonetheless much more to reach and I stay relentlessly decided to win extra trophies within the years forward … I will really feel the similar choice across the dressing room . I could not be extra excited for the longer term beneath this supervisor.”
Confirmation of Rashford’s contract came on a day when United re-signed Jonny Evans on a short-term contract. The defender, who came through the ranks at United and played 198 games before leaving in 2015, has a deal that enables him to play against Lyon in Edinburgh on Wednesday and Wrexham in San Diego next Tuesday. United are not sending a full squad to Edinburgh and their academy group will face Wrexham.
United said of Evans: “The academy graduate were coaching with the under-21s while taking into account his choices, following his departure from Leicester City on the finish of remaining season. As a part of the academy coaching programme, he has additionally taken phase in numerous first-team periods and inspired Erik ten Hag and the training workforce.”