Ammon News - Only one Englishman has played competitive football for Barcelona in the last 100 years.

When Gary Lineker arrived at the Nou Camp in 1986, he had just won the World Cup Golden Boot and was about to finish runner-up in the Ballon d’Or.

He would go on to score a hat-trick in El Clasico, lift a European trophy and win the Copa del Rey.

Barcelona don’t tend to sign English players. And they don’t tend to sign chumps.

So the fact that Marcus Rashford is about to become only the second Englishman in the modern era to play at the spiritual home of the beautiful game is perhaps the most intriguing move of the summer.

Rashford, the member of Manchester United’s unwanted ‘bomb squad’.

Rashford, whose form has fallen off a cliff.

Rashford, whose once-saintly reputation has fallen from the clouds.

During the pandemic, Rashford earned an MBE for his campaigning work against child poverty and hunger. Back then, he was lauded as the unofficial Leader of the Opposition.

Yet this January, Ruben Amorim claimed Rashford’s attitude was so poor that he would rather select his 63-year-old goalkeeping coach Jorge Vital as a United sub.

And now here is Rashford joining the champions of Spain, signing for the club where Johan Cruyff and Pep Guardiola elevated football into an art form.

Earlier in the summer, Rashford had been openly touting himself for a move to Barca.

The Sun