Rashford trained for the first time with Hansi Flick’s squad earlier on Tuesday and is set to travel with his new team-mates on the club’s pre–season tour of Asia on Thursday. Wake up to find news on your club in your inbox every morning with Metro’s Football Newsletter.

The mightily dynamic defender was one of many beneficiaries of Hansi Flick’s arrival as manager, with the German smartly using his full-backs to maximise the strengths of both. Jules Koundé’s capacity to tuck inside offered Balde greater license to bomb forward and affect proceedings in the final third.

Marcus Rashford will follow in the footsteps of Marcus McGuane and become only the second Englishman to represent Barcelona this century after he completed his dream move to the Spanish giants.