Marcus Rashford to complete transfer on Sunday despite mixed messages from clubs

Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford has been successful exile astatine Old Trafford - but present is heading to Aston Villa successful a bid to get his vocation backmost connected track

Aston Villa are putting the finishing touches connected a sensational indebtedness swoop for Marcus Rashford.

The Manchester United guardant volition acquisition a aesculapian connected Sunday up of a impermanent determination to Villa Park. The troubled erstwhile England ace is linking up with Unai Emery until the extremity of the play aft the contractual details were ironed retired during the past 24 hours.

Villa expect Rashford to implicit the paperwork contiguous - and past helium volition perpetrate his contiguous aboriginal to the Birmingham club. Talks person been accelerated aft Jhon Duran joined Saudi broadside Al-Nassr for £77.5m, leaving the Champions League qualifiers with capable currency to walk connected the striker’s wages.

Briefings from some clubs person clarified small with the authoritative enactment from the sellers being that Villa are paying the bulk of his £315,000-a-week deal. But his caller nine importune that is not the lawsuit and that they are surely not going that far.

Asked straight astir Rashford, Villa brag Unai Emery would not code the concern aft the game. However, helium did say: “We volition spot due to the fact that we are moving connected antithetic players.

“I don’t cognize precisely however we volition decorativeness with the players that we want.”

What is not successful dispute, however, is that this volition beryllium a caller commencement for the 27-year-old, who has near Old Trafford nether a unreality aft his committedness and enactment ethic were questioned by brag Ruben Amorim. And it could beryllium that Rashford yet leaves for bully arsenic Villa bash person an enactment to bargain - it is understood not to beryllium an work - astatine the extremity of the season.

Emery needs backmost up some retired wide - wherever Rashford usually operates - and done the middle. He needs security should No.1 striker Ollie Watkins prime up an wounded - arsenic happened astatine Molineux past nighttime erstwhile the England planetary was substituted owed to a groin strain.

Villa’s brag said: “Watkins has been consistent, playing matches. He’s been beardown astatine recovering. He was injured - and hopefully it was small.

“But the thought is to regenerate Jhon Duran with different striker. We are moving to get immoderate players to articulation america connected Monday due to the fact that we person to regenerate Diego Carlos. We person to regenerate Emi Buendia.

“It is precise hard due to the fact that we don’t privation to regenerate them with players who volition not assistance america similar I want. We person to beryllium precise demanding and intelligent.”

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