On topic - yes i absolutely would care because it would mean we're picking up points but yeah, long term it shouldn't brush over his actual level.
Bif of a rant: Rashford is a fascinating case study around our club. You get some who would attack & over-criticize him (i.e. extremely underrated) & then you get others who will defend him blindly, at all costs (extremely overrated). Actually not entirely sure who is worse, in this case.
My own opinion is probably somewhere in the middle. He brings me as much joy when he is on form, as he does frustration when he's not. And "out of form" players - i have some patience for, but not the added baggage of the body language that just seems all entirely....wrong and disinterested. Yeah, I know I'm not a body language expert....it's like the one group waits for the purple patch to start creating threads mocking those who voted "sell him if a good offer comes in" and the other group waits for the purple patch to dry up to create....these threads.
My own opinion is that you'll struggle to ever win big titles - especially league titles, with players who has a "bottom level" that is so low. Highs of 8/9 out of 10, lows of 3/4 out of 10. That's a massive fall in performance. So from one week you become the teams talisman to the next when you're clearly holding the team back and costing them. Bruno is a similar case - and when your 2 most important attackers are both fairly direct but both blow this hot & cold....cue our struggles.
There are a few mitigating circumstances, granted. This issue is obviously compounded by the support cast being either new/inexperienced (Hojlund), always injured (Martial) or not providing enough/not good enough (Antony). If you think of all the big teams, they seem to have fairly "consistent" players - who provide the goods over the course of an entire season, or at least their performance levels doesn't drop to 3's and 4's often or for prolonged periods/if ever. Rooney, as an example, had quite a low bottom level from what i recall, but i doubt it ever lasted this long and i guess he always had others who could step up and bail the team out.
It's staggering how we're seemingly going backwards after all the money we've spent. I am a big fan of EtH but that faith is fast eroding this season because i will be steadfast and consistent in this: the manager must be held accountable at some point. I just fear the decision makers at the top are once again proving to be as incompetent as their predecessors, and seemingly haven't learnt a thing. And i was fairly excited when we got rid of Woodward.
Aargh, the joys of being a United fan, post SAF. So, so many false dawns.