Aston Villa have enquired about Manchester United want-away Marcus Rashford, with Unai Emery keen to sign him in the wake of Jhon Duran’s £77.5million move to Al-Nassr
Aston Villa have expressed an interest in taking Marcus Rashford on loan until the end of the season.
Villa Park recruitment chiefs have made a call about Manchester United’s outcast. Unai Emery’s club has asked for details of the 60-time England international’s £315,000-a-week salary.
And, fresh with £77.5million being added to the coffers at Villa following the sale of Jhon Duran to Saudi Arabia, Emery is on the look-out for a replacement. Barcelona remain the favourite to snare the 27-year-old striker, but any move is dependent on the players being moved out of the Nou Camp.
That has given Villa the opportunity to make an enquiry as they look for a backup to Ollie Watkins, who has told boss Emery in the last few days that he is willing to stay and fight the Villa cause until the end of the season despite interest from Arsenal. Villa would have huge issues meeting the player’s salary demands.
Their top earner, Emi Martinez, earns around £7.5m a year, and with Rashford’s wages being twice that figure, they would be looking for the parent club to make a significant contribution. Villa are also looking at PSG’s Marco Asensio and Joao Felix as other options in the wake of Duran’s departure for the Middle East.
Emery, meanwhile, has confirmed that England star Watkins won’t be joining Arsenal, whose £60m bid was rejected this week. “Yes, he is happy to stay,” the Spaniard confirmed. “You can ask him, but we asked him how he is feeling every day, every year he has been here with Aston Villa, with us and without us. He is happy to stay.
Pressed on how important it is to keep Watkins, Emery replied: “The commitment of Ollie Watkins with us is a huge commitment, he appreciates a lot how Aston Villa was always supporting him, helping him, and when we joined him here two years ago, how we worked with him, always trying to get the best of him.
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“Now we need him, like he needed Aston Villa. The conversation we are having usually, I am speaking with him a lot, he is always adapting of every circumstance we have in the squad and individually with him. When there are some teams calling us being interested in the players, of course it is very good for us and very good for the players.
“Some players prefer to leave and some players accept to stay here, to be here and commit with us here and to be with our challenge. One of those is Ollie Watkins.”
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