Yes but you are ignoring some important facts here and you talk as if he never got a chance. There is a good reason he now doesn't get a chance. It is because the only consistency in his career was repeated failures. That is what the coaches could count on, Rashford will fail again it is only a matter of time. Manchester United is not a club on the highest level and competition is pretty weak and yet Rashford can't make it reliably into the starting eleven.
It's true that his situation won't improve there because he isn't good enough, but when he goes to a different club, this doesn't mean he instantly can level up his game. Going to Barcelona would be ridiculous when your point is that he doesn't get enough play time at Manchester United. Do you really think he will win the competition against Lamine Yamal, Raphinha, Lewandowski, Torres? I never expect him to outcompete any of these players. And Barcelona is planning on signing more forwards that are already of higher quality than Rashford. He would be sitting on the bench 90% of the time.
He can't make it at Manchester United, but then you mention Barcelona as a possible destination.
Barcelona was previously reported to have an interest in Rashford. They are constrained by the player's fairly high salary problem. If Barcelona did not have financial problems, maybe they would really buy him. Regarding competition, it all depends on the player whether he can show his potential or not.
But now everything is final and Rashford will join Aston Villa on loan even though the salary is not paid in full by Aston Villa, at least it will reduce the burden of United's player salary when Rashford is indeed not included in Amorim's plans.
Maybe it came out somehow that they were playing around with the idea to sign him, but after thorough considerations came to the conclusion that he never is a player for Barcelona since he doesn't play on the same level. He still would have to take on the competition with the players who are already there and with potential other players that Barcelona would sign in addition.
Financial constraints have been there forever, but they have solved them every time. I don't think this was really about the money, I think that they actually know that Rashford is not good enough to play for them.
