Bayern Munich are keen on signing Marcus Rashford this summer but he will not explore other avenues until he is certain a Barcelona move is off the table.
Rashford is still a Manchester United player after spending last season on loan at Barca and a permanent deal yet to be agreed.
The England international featured regularly, although not always as a starter, making 49 appearances and scoring 14 goals.
As part of the loan agreement, Barcelona can make the move permanent for £26 million, which seemed very likely to happen given the contribution he made to the club over the season in which they won La Liga.
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However, the Catalans are stalling on doing the deal, meanwhile they have spent just shy of £70m on Rashford’s England teammate Anthony Gordon from Newcastle United.
The £26m permanent transfer can be triggered by Barca until June 15, but while Rashford remains in limbo, other interested parties are emerging.
Most notably Bayern Munich have reportedly shown an interest in taking Rashford to Bavaria, having missed out on Gordon when he signed for Barcelona.
However, Spanish publication Marca report that Rashford is not entertaining any other possible moves until a Barcelona switch is definitely not happening.
Barca are reportedly still keen on keeping hold of Rashford, but are looking at other ways of doing it, including another loan deal.
The forward is happy to concentrate on England’s campaign at the World Cup and resolve his future afterwards, if Barcelona do not get a deal done.
Rashford’s preference of staying at Barcelona has seemingly been harmed by Gordon’s signing, but the former Everton and Newcastle man says his international teammate has been very good about the situation.
‘He was just telling me how good the lads are there, the team spirit that they have, which I heard already from the people in Barca,’ Gordon told talkSPORT of Rashford.
‘So I’m really looking forward to joining up with them. He was also telling me about the city, places to live.
‘He’s a lovely guy, very caring. So he was just giving me a bit of information.’