Marcus Rashford ‘REJECTED PSG’s eye-watering offer of a £400,000-PER-WEEK last summer’ to stay put at Man United… with the striker ‘in talks over a bumper new Old Trafford deal’ following his sublime run of form
- Marcus Rashford reportedly rejected a huge offer from PSG last summer
- The Parisian side offered Rashford over £400,000 a week to join them
- Rashford decided to turn it down and is now in line for a pay rise at Man United
Marcus Rashford reportedly turned down an eye-watering £400,000-a-week offer from PSG last summer.
The Manchester United star is currently enjoying the best goalscoring season of his career so far having shown himself to be integral to Erik ten Hag‘s transformation of the club.
However, things were not as rosy last year as they were this time round which saw PSG try to capitalise on the fact that the England star was out of sorts and entering the final year of his United deal, shortly before a one-year extension was activated.
And Rashford was made to think about his future long and hard last summer when the Ligue 1 giants made him an offer of more than £400,000 per week to join them, a report from The Athletic claims.
The report goes on to claim that United were kept in the loop with any developments from PSG’s talks with Rashford, which were considered above board.
Marcus Rashford reportedly turned down ag £400,000-a-week offer from PSG last summer
PSG chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi (above) heaped praise on Rashford at the World Cup in Qatar
The 25-year-old decided against moving to Ligue 1 and stayed at his boyhood club.
It turned out to be for the best for Rashford, considering he has been firing on all cylinders for club and country, and despite only having 18 months remaining on his current deal, is in talks over a new deal to stay at Old Trafford for the long term.
Had United not activated his one-year extension, Rashford would have been free to talk to clubs from overseas about joining them on a free, but the short-term extension now takes him through to the summer of 2024.
Even after Rashford rejected the substantial contract offer from PSG, the club’s chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi still heaped praise on the striker during the World Cup, confirming that he had indeed had talks over a…