Manchester United is investing the necessary money to push the squad to score some goals and to make it more solid. So far they hired Matheus Cunha as a second striker for €74m and now they are adding Bryan Mbeumo, a winger who scored many goals. The price for him is €80m which makes Manchester United spending around €150m to consolidate the attack line only!
I am really impressed by the inflation in football transfer market, these prices are very high and will collapse many teams or will boost teams to recruit free players.
If you compare the money other players have been signed with them will say both of this deals are a very good deal although people need to understand that this money aren’t straight up what the club will Pay but they are of added bonuses when the player reaches a certain level of game played and performance which is a good way to cut loss if it doesn’t works out. Also this money spent doesn’t solve Manchester United problems in my opinion, they still need a very good central midfielder and also a striker because Mbeumo and Cunha aren’t one although ot will heavily depend on departures but it is needed.
My thought is that Rashford would be used more as a backup striker for Lewandowski than a winger cause I see no reason why Flick would bench Rashford for Raphinha that's at his prime and doing very well in the team. Well I don't know if Manchester United would accept a loan deal since they need to sell so they'll buy their remaining target but in a case where a loan deal is accepted then both club would share the wage on a 50:50 scale.
Raphinha isn’t a left winger, he was used their last season mainly because there was nobody to play that position. We have all seen that Hansi Flick desire is to play Raphinha as an second striker just behind Lewandowski as he played in some games, the midfield will mostly be Pedri and De Jong as the two central midfielders so I think Rashford will get into that attack if we analyze how Hansi Flick wants to play.
For Manchester United they don’t have any better option now rather to accept and take his wages off their books for another season