Marcus Rashford has received a boost in securing a dream move to Barcelona as the La Liga champions have been forced to remove another attacking player from their list of summer targets.

Barcelona have turned their attention back to Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford, while Arsenal continue to make progress in their bid to sign Viktor Gyökeres. Join us for the latest transfer news,

The justification for this shift in stance—less than six weeks ago, Deco explicitly named Rashford as a player Barcelona “liked”—is the preference for Liverpool forward Luis Díaz. The Colombia international is deemed to be more versatile, more experienced and more willing to sacrifice himself for the good of the team than Rashford.