It's not really a fact, is it? I mean the only reason anyone talking today about Perisic is that he scored a couple of goals yesterday. People weren't praising him while having output similar to Daniel James last season or having 0 goals and 1 assist in 8 games of CL this season.
I'm not the one who made the comparison anyway, and Rashford was playing on the wing in 19/20 and yeah Hazard in his prime was better than Martial and his numbers were consistently better too.
A lot of people have talked about Perisic the last couple of years, particularly when Croatia reached World Cup. I didn't even watch the last cup final with Inter and my opinion on him has always been the same.
Not everything is about output. I just hate this argument. Perisic style of play opens a lot of opportunities for his teammates to get into critical areas and score. Helping the team dynamics is far more important than stat padding for your own glorious numbers record while the team dynamics suck hard *cough*Bruno*cough*. James problem wasn't just because he wasn't scoring goals. It was because he was useless on the pitch even outside that.
In 19/20 our entire attack was built around providing the ball to Martial and Rashford. Of course they will score a lot of goals than a winger like Perisic. It's not a surprise that once we signed Ronaldo and the dynamics shifted to him, Rashford has been doing feck all since then and Martial left on loan where he still sucks.
Stat padding isn't everything. What matters is how the player makes the team play.