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antsmithmk

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Dunno about the press but the fans (on here) have been ripping him a new one all season long. I’ve been very critical of him myself. And his attitude has annoyed me more than anything. I just happen think he’s played a bit better and worked harder a bit over the last couple of weeks. Today he was tracking back when needed, dribbled down blind alleys a lot less than usual, put some decent balls into the box (one of which very nearly set up a goal if it wasn’t for an amazing save by their keeper and another which ended up in our only goal) and slipped some nice passes inside their fullback. It was a solid 6 or 7 out of 10 performance.
I did notice today he seemed to play a little better when he was on the left hand side after the subs were made than when he played on right. I wonder if his confidence is shot by the rise of Garnacho and the arrival of Hojland. Regardless I honestly don't think he level of performance this season has been acceptable, especially effort wise.
 

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He is not consistant enough for this level. Needs to be sold end of the season.
 

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How the hell he got that contract I will never know. Awful player, give or take 2 or 3 months
 

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Oh don't get me wrong, he's atrocious.

It's just that Martial is the last one I'd want to take his place. Probably the only worse one with less life in him at the moment.
The options you said aren't any better than him either. I will take trying Martial ahead of the current Rashford.
 

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I didn't think he was particularly good today. You can't just ignore the context of being a top-earner at the club, it's nowhere near good enough. Being realistic, the purple patches where he looks unplayable/world-class are vanishingly small compared to the overall chunk of his time in the first team. I have to remind myself it is not his fault as the club have decided this situation is for the best. i just can't imagine how long SAF would have put up with his top earner being this ineffective during his era, like what... five minutes? Hope Ratcliffe can put an end to our ridiculously bad contract business.
 

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I didn't think he was particularly good today. You can't just ignore the context of being a top-earner at the club, it's nowhere near good enough. Being realistic, the purple patches where he looks unplayable/world-class are vanishingly small compared to the overall chunk of his time in the first team. I have to remind myself it is not his fault as the club have decided this situation is for the best. i just can't imagine how long SAF would have put up with his top earner being this ineffective during his era, like what... five minutes? Hope Ratcliffe can put an end to our ridiculously bad contract business.
SAF played Valencia all season when we last won the league, when the general consensus on the caf was that he was awful.
 

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Also, I don't think people would be as concerned if we were anywhere even close to winning the league. When you are paying the kind of wages we are and have one of the lowest numbers of goals scored in the top 10 with most of the other teams achieving nearly double that - then it's pretty obvious you have a problem.
 

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The options you said aren't any better than him either. I will take trying Martial ahead of the current Rashford.
A trying Martial?

When's the last time we saw him try anything on the pitch? 2019?

People need to let go of Anthony. It's been 4 years, we need to move on man. He's not coming good again.
 

tomaldinho1

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SAF played Valencia all season when we last won the league, when the general consensus on the caf was that he was awful.
Valencia was a decent winger - definitely not terrible. Physical monster and though he was quite predictable, he was a great squad member without really being a star.
His stats for us are a bit deceiving as well - when you think of how long he spent at RB - ending his time with us at 339 apps, 25 goals, 62 assists is pretty bloody good.
 

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Sell sell sell. Hope PSG lose Mbappe and they come in for him. He's paid akin to a Salah/De Bruyne/Haaland and doesn't give a tenth of what they do consistently.
PSG are run better these days. Can't see anyone in Europe who could afford his wages shelling out for him (not even Chelsea -unless they decide to sell a couple of their wide forwards like Mudryck) ...
 

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Also, I don't think people would be as concerned if we were anywhere even close to winning the league. When you are paying the kind of wages we are and have one of the lowest numbers of goals scored in the top 10 with most of the other teams achieving nearly double that - then it's pretty obvious you have a problem.
Thanks for pointing that out. Otherwise this place would be full of people blissfully unaware that we have any problems.
 

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Interesting similarity to Ole:
Marcus 124 goals in 374 games
Ole 126 goals in 366 games
I suspect Rashford has played more minutes as Ole was often a sub.
 

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Interesting similarity to Ole:
Marcus 124 goals in 374 games
Ole 126 goals in 366 games
I suspect Rashford has played more minutes as Ole was often a sub.
Rashford has played about 22% more minutes than Ole did or the equivelant of 51 extra games.
 

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Rashford has played about 22% more minutes than Ole did or the equivelant of 51 extra games.
Ole played in far far far far better team that was actually successful, created numerous chances etc. Marcus plays in a boring as feck team that’ll create maybe 4 decent chances in a game.
 

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Ole played in far far far far better team that was actually successful, created numerous chances etc. Marcus plays in a boring as feck team that’ll create maybe 4 decent chances in a game.
He will still miss all the 4 chances created . Watch the game yesterday ?
 

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Ole played in far far far far better team that was actually successful, created numerous chances etc. Marcus plays in a boring as feck team that’ll create maybe 4 decent chances in a game.
Marcus is responsible for the lack of creation though. It's not like he is completely blame free
 

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Marcus is responsible for the lack of creation though. It's not like he is completely blame free
Ye since he’s playing out wide. He also should be creating chances for himself like he was last season.
 

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Ole played in far far far far better team that was actually successful, created numerous chances etc. Marcus plays in a boring as feck team that’ll create maybe 4 decent chances in a game.
Rashford is just not a very smart footballer. The mistakes he made 10 years ago, he still makes them today.
Bit unfortunate, United is not a very good environment to develop world class players with constant change of manager, whom have different styles.
Mourinho didn't train player and I doubt Ole did it either. By the times Rangnick, ETH arrived, Rashford's already matured his skillsets and people don't learn at this age.
 

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I know we should be expecting a lot more but he's playing some killer passes at least. I would still have him in the team and it's worth playing him back into form over any other option we have right now .
 

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He looks like a guy who is being forced to play football. I think it's better if he stays on the right for now (probably should be dropped just to give him some rest, but that's never going to happen).
 

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Interesting similarity to Ole:
Marcus 124 goals in 374 games
Ole 126 goals in 366 games
I suspect Rashford has played more minutes as Ole was often a sub.
Ole would cane him on goals per minutes played.

But it's a good point that in a successful United side, both would be bench players at best.
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Ups and downs (as usual with him) yesterday.
Had a couple of good deliveries, Hojlund should have scored one and the second let to the winning goal.

He must do better for his chance, that's just blasting it straight to the keeper. Why does he nearly never goes for the curler? It's not as he has it not in him.

Workrate was okay yesterday. But he always has provocative sequences where he doesn't challenge for headers or simple let his opponent run away and that is understandably frustrating people. Especially when you are at a non scoring run as he is.
 

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Interesting similarity to Ole:
Marcus 124 goals in 374 games
Ole 126 goals in 366 games
I suspect Rashford has played more minutes as Ole was often a sub.
It’s does make a difference the quality and consistency of the two teams they played for and the positions
I know Ole played wide too but often he was up front with another forward.
The game is more difficult to score in now for me though. That’s why out and out strikers of real quality so sort after.
Marcus is inconsistent but been the main goal threat for the team for 3 years. We can see the added pressure has affected him, hopefully when we find form and consistency with other players contributing this will help.
 

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Ole played in far far far far better team that was actually successful, created numerous chances etc. Marcus plays in a boring as feck team that’ll create maybe 4 decent chances in a game.
One of his jobs is to create the chances, he's more a winger than a striker or he's supposed to be
 

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We really need him to pull one of those purple patches out of the fire soon, but it's not going to happen playing him on the right.

Garnacho probably a bit more suited to the right given that he's a bit more of a traditional winger and gets to the byline more often?
 

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Utterly diabolical for England against fecking Malta.
He seems to only have two extremes - very good or League 2 level.
 

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Utterly diabolical for England against fecking Malta.
He seems to only have two extremes - very good or League 2 level.
Something must be wrong with him. I can’t be convinced that his periods of good form are some otherworldly, transient gift of performances that belie his true shit self. He is an excellent player who spends a lot of time playing shit. The year before last, we knew why - he was carrying and / or recovering from injuries. What’s the problem now?

Who knows? But this is not the “real” Rashford. He’s much better than this. His great performances were never a fluke, he has all the attributes and has proved it many times. Something is wrong.
 

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Utterly diabolical for England against fecking Malta.
He seems to only have two extremes - very good or League 2 level.
Didnt watch the game, but hopefully puts to bed the recent media notion he 'plays good for England' after scoring a good goal against Italy
 

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Something must be wrong with him. I can’t be convinced that his periods of good form are some otherworldly, transient gift of performances that belie his true shit self. He is an excellent player who spends a lot of time playing shit. The year before last, we knew why - he was carrying and / or recovering from injuries. What’s the problem now?

Who knows? But this is not the “real” Rashford. He’s much better than this. His great performances were never a fluke, he has all the attributes and has proved it many times. Something is wrong.
If there is anything wrong, it's with the fans. You simply have to see that this is what he has done consistently. 3 months of good form doesn't change that.
 

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Something must be wrong with him. I can’t be convinced that his periods of good form are some otherworldly, transient gift of performances that belie his true shit self. He is an excellent player who spends a lot of time playing shit. The year before last, we knew why - he was carrying and / or recovering from injuries. What’s the problem now?

Who knows? But this is not the “real” Rashford. He’s much better than this. His great performances were never a fluke, he has all the attributes and has proved it many times. Something is wrong.
The moon is in Aquarius. Or his mum stopped making him packed lunch. Tired of excuses, everything has to be in alignment for him to put a shift in. Sell him and let someone else worry about it.
 

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The moon is in Aquarius. Or his mum stopped making him packed lunch. Tired of excuses, everything has to be in alignment for him to put a shift in. Sell him and let someone else worry about it.
We've seem to have had a lot of these type of players over the years. Well post Fergie anyway.