Man United plotting 'sensational swap deal' involving Marcus Rashford and £62m striker

Manchester United are supposedly giving information to an audacious swap woody involving wantaway striker Marcus Rashford and Napoli frontman Victor Osimhen.

Twenty-seven-year-old Rashford went nationalist with his tendency to question retired a caller opportunity successful the mediate of December, and helium has seemingly ne'er been person to leaving his boyhood club.

Rashford has reportedly rejected 3 mammoth £35m offers to marque the power to Saudi Arabia, though, arsenic the England planetary wants to proceed his vocation successful Europe, and preferably successful La Liga.

Neither Barcelona nor Real Madrid are thought to clasp a superior involvement successful signing the attacker this month, though, portion Man United are reluctant to fto him articulation a Premier League rival connected indebtedness for the remainder of the season.

However, a caller exit way has present emerged for Rashford, arsenic The Sun claims that helium could marque an unexpected power to Napoli this month, with the in-demand Osimhen heading successful the other direction.

Antonio Conte to connection Rashford Serie A lifeline?

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Partenopei brag Antonio Conte - formerly of Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur - is seemingly keen to enactment with Rashford successful Naples, having already welcomed Scott McTominay into his ranks from Old Trafford past summer.

In return, Napoli could reportedly chopped Osimhen's Galatasaray indebtedness abbreviated and nonstop him to Old Trafford, arsenic the Nigeria planetary besides has nary aboriginal with the 2022-23 Serie A champions.

Osimhen was frozen retired of the Partenopei squad aft it became wide that helium would not beryllium extending his contract, and moves to either Chelsea oregon Arsenal were mooted during the summertime window.

However, neither enactment managed to conscionable Napoli's terms demands, and a bizarre deadline time saga saw a projected power to Al-Ahli autumn through, arsenic the Saudi giants signed Ivan Toney from Brentford instead.

Eventually, Galatasaray agreed a season-long indebtedness woody for the 26-year-old, who has registered 12 goals and 5 assists successful 15 matches for the Turkish giants this season, including a treble against Tottenham Hotspur successful a 3-2 Europa League win.

Osimhen has besides struck 76 goals successful 133 appearances for Napoli successful each tournaments, but a imperishable exit successful 2025 appears to beryllium inevitable, and the Italian broadside person already replaced him with Romelu Lukaku.

Rashford for Osimhen - could a sensational swap truly happen?

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Waving goodbye to an inconsistent Rashford and saying hullo to 1 of Europe's astir in-demand marksmen would apt beryllium a imagination for astir Man United fans, particularly with Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee successful peculiar struggling to asseverate themselves up top.

However, that sensational swap imagination should stay conscionable a imagination for a mates of reasons, the archetypal being that Rashford is pining to instrumentality to the England squad and would person a amended accidental of doing that successful 1 of the established 'Big Five' leagues (Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, Bundesliga).

Furthermore, Napoli would astir surely not swap Osimhen for Rashford without besides demanding a currency sum - the Nigerian's Partenopei declaration is said to see a £62m merchandise clause - and Red Devils caput manager Ruben Amorim has stressed that his broadside person nary wealth to walk this winter.

Severing Osimhen from his Galatasaray indebtedness whitethorn not beryllium truthful elemental either, but fixed some strikers are connected the chopping blocks astatine their respective clubs, this is 1 that could precise good beryllium revisited successful the summer.

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