Manchester United could be forced to pay out £20million if Marcus Rashford leaves this summer, with the England star facing an uncertain future at Old Trafford.
Rashford is currently playing for Aston Villa on loan after falling out with Ruben Amorim at United and it appears unlikely he will return to his boyhood club in the summer.
Villa have an option to sign Rashford permanently for £40million if his loan deal is a success, but it is unlikely Unai Emery's side would be able to pay his huge salary of £325,000-a-week.
While United could end up pocketing £40m for Rashford, the club could end up paying off the rest of his contract to satisfy his demands, which adds up to around £20m - according to the Daily Mail.
Rashford's current deal at Old Trafford runs until 2028 after he agreed a contract extension in 2023 but honouring that deal looks more and more unlikely after his row with Amorim, who accused the player of "not giving the maximum" in training.
The 27-year-old joined the club aged seven and has gone on to make 426 appearances for the Red Devils, scoring 138 times.
His looming contract situation comes after Sir Jim Ratcliffe gave a candid interview revealing the club's financial difficulties and how they are having to spent millions on player wages and owed transfer fees.
Speaking to Gary Neville on the Overlap, he said: "If you look at the players that we will buy this summer that we did not buy, in other words, we're buying Antony this summer. We're buying [Jadon] Sancho this summer, we're buying [Rasmus] Hojlund, we're buying Casemiro, we're buying [Andre] Onana.
"It's not a light switch. In your day [Neville's], you bought a player and that was it. I know that the bill we will pay this summer is £89m for players that have been signed previously. If we buy no players, we write a cheque for £89m this summer."
Rashford is among a crop of United stars who are expected to leave this summer in a clearout that could see as many as eight senior players axed.
Ratcliffe insisted a number of United players were "not good enough" and "overpaid" and the club could now cut their losses on the likes of Casemiro, Mason Mount, Christian Eriksen, Viktor Lindelof, Jonny Evans, Rasmus Hojlund, Jadon Sancho and Tom Heaton.
Yitakpsuyz
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Amorim favourite son Onana count him too. Useless keepers in football era
Beadiklrsz
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terminate his loan and bring him back before the contractual time
Geralddaysmu
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Not £20m but £50m .
Lidbeklruy
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He should leave permanent if he want's to enjoy football and play in the Champions league in the coming season rather than returning back to Manchester United who are struggling to reach top ten in the log
boaimnosyz
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Have to pay the price to" SAVE the Club. period.
The_Phoenix
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🤣 another slash in lunch to compensate for that 20M
Ciodilnosy
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NRNEPAL
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Australia7853904
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I just watched the interview with Gary Neville and Sir Jim. Well if that’s the plan for the future I didn’t see what Jim was expecting in the next few years. He sounded confused and didn’t want to talk about what the Glazers have taken out of our Club. If it’s true and they took 200 million then they are to blame for everything. With every business you must put in place a rebuild figure each year so to keep a future but they took the future away. I feel they should be made to put back 100 million which for the years they have been in charge would be the correct thing to do. Like I said before you must put money back into a business to make it work and they did not do that. I feel they have robbed United and called it correct. It is definitely wrong and they should be accountable for it.