Manchester United transfer latest: Zlatan Ibrahimovic gives Marcus Rashford update as AC Milan interest intensifies

Despite the fiscal obstacles, Zlatan Ibrahimovic has insisted that helium volition effort to enactment retired a mode of bringing Marcus Rashford to AC Milan this season.

Rashford has not featured for Manchester United since his side's 2-1 triumph against Viktoria Plzen connected December 12 successful the Europa League.

The Red Devils person since played six times, though brag Ruben Amorim has presided implicit 4 losses, 1 gully and conscionable 1 triumph successful that period.

Rashford has been linked with a determination distant from Old Trafford this January, and elder AC Milan advisor Ibrahimovic spoke to Sky Italia astir his tendency to bring the winger to Italy, saying: "I cognize him precise well, I played with him erstwhile helium was young, present helium is an big and established. He has done large things with United and contiguous that is his club.

"How to person him [to join]? Milan is 1 of the biggest clubs successful the world, everyone wants to play here. It is simply a hard operation, we volition spot if we tin speech to him."

Rashford has been frozen retired of United's plans ever since his bombshell interrogation successful December erstwhile helium announced that helium was acceptable to permission the club.

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Would a determination to AC Milan marque consciousness for Rashford and Manchester United?

Milan caput manager Sergio Conceicao refused to rule retired a January determination for Rashford, though it remains to beryllium seen however the winger would acceptable successful the team's XI fixed Rafael Leao besides prefers to play connected the near of attack.

Rashford does person acquisition of operating arsenic a cardinal striker - though helium does not excel with his backmost to extremity - and possibly Conceicao would promote his squad to play successful down absorption defences astatine each opportunity, making the astir of the Englishman's electrical pace.

The 27-year-old's wages could besides beryllium to beryllium a stumbling artifact successful immoderate woody considering helium is reportedly earning successful excess of £300k a week, a fig that is apt to beryllium beyond Milan's fiscal limits.

A transportation this wintertime could materialise if United were consenting to subsidise immoderate of Rashford's wage successful a indebtedness deal, but specified a woody whitethorn not assistance the Red Devils' ain precarious fiscal situation.

Sir Jim Ratcliffe has implemented a fig of arguable cost-cutting measures during his clip arsenic Manchester United co-owner, and helium is reportedly improbable to springiness manager Amorim important funds to amended his squad successful January.

Selling Rashford would assistance the nine debar falling foul of the Premier League's strict spending rules, particularly arsenic the Englishman would number arsenic homegrown and immoderate merchantability would beryllium classified arsenic axenic profit.

A imperishable determination would besides instrumentality Rashford distant from what has astatine times been a heated ambiance astatine Old Trafford, but unless United oregon the subordinate are consenting to compromise, it is hard to spot a solution being reached anytime soon.

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