I’ve genuinely taken this as far, and far further to be honest, than I could possibly ever imagined it going. If you can’t see what the posters in this thread have been trying to say about the football , nothing to do with kids or tories or anything else, not from me anyway, then fair enough. I admire your stubbornness I have to say. You don’t give up, genuinely meant as a compliment.
I said he hasn’t been good enough. Rashford himself literally said he’s not been good enough. His international manger has said it with his selections. Even his stats have surely dropped off since the turn of 2021 and we are all seeing evidence of that on the pitch and in our results and overall play? In my book 6th or 7th in the league for xg isn’t anything worth arguing for 30 pages over. Or is he just 6th because he’s an automatic starter in a top team? it’s not his fault he’s played in absolutely every game going but we as a club should be aiming to have #1, 2 and 3 on the xg list and not just counting our lucky stars that we have anyone at all. Can you not see that’s a symptom of the malaise that’s crept in here in the post Fergie years? I’d rather loads of scrappy 1-0s with 90th minute maguire goals and win the league than pasting a team 9-0 and 5-0 and dining out all season on it, even though they were fecking class games and hopefully a sign of things to come
Going forward we would all like to have a hard working and world class forward line I assume? I feel like that’s going to be impossible unless Rashfords game changes back to the livewire way it was pre injury or we at least use him a lot more sparingly while he sorts his fitness out. I really do want him to do well. He has the tools to surpass the likes of Salah and Son but if we want to win now we can’t be waiting around another 5 years playing him in every game in the meantime. You’re only really ever as good as your last few games…
Anyway. I’m actually supposed by studying. Its always the way…