Rashford sort of makes sense, he would be a bench player, so that sort of makes sense. They were looking for Nico, and Nico is not a bench player, he is a left winger, but at left, they have Rapinha, so it never made sense for me that they were looking for that. now that they got Rashford, that dude could be bench for left wing, right wing, striker, whoever they have, he can play in many positions, which makes sense.
I see this as absolute win for them, they are getting him on loan too, and then buy option at the end of the season, so they are not even spending that much right now. We are seeing Barcelona finally making some financial sense, as long as they do not spend that much money, they are going to be doing fine.
I don't think Rashford would mind being benched.
Nico is a player who plays directly at Bilbao and wouldn't want to be benched at Barcelona. That's why he didn't transfer to Barcelona.
Rashford is a player who plays every aspect of the attack. He'll likely be Olmo's backup.
If he fits in, he'll be a starter right away when he gets the jersey. If he wasn't confident in himself, he'd go to the Saudi Arabian League instead of Barcelona.
What was the point of going to Barcelona to sit on the bench?
Barcelona have one of the best attacks in the world at the moment and only PSG could be better.
Olmo is not a competitor for Rashford, rather Lewandowski, who is apparently looking for a replacement, but last season Lewandowski scored 42 goals and that's a great result, and Rashford scored only 11 goals for United and Aston Villa last season.
Taking into account the salary of 12 million euros a year at Rashford the meaning of his rent for Barcelona is still a mystery and besides for Rashford it would be more useful to play another season in Aston Villa, which got into the European Cup and is quite a competition to many top clubs in Europe.