Marcus Rashford | 2026/27 Performances

[SirScholes]

Then he best out perform him. Not one player should be thinking there guaranteed a starting spot every week. Carrick has mentioned before that players need to fight to get into the team.

dont disagree but rashford is a bad smell returning for me, and Cunha looks like he loves being a Man Utd player. I know who I think deserves the place

 

[Stadjer]

dont disagree but rashford is a bad smell returning for me, and Cunha looks like he loves being a Man Utd player. I know who I think deserves the place

The player who performs the best deserves the place. Im sure you would also love being a Manchester United player but i dont think you deserve the place. I dont even think i want you near the squad eventhough you would love being a Manchester United player.

 

[Eric_the_Red99]

If he does end up playing for us this season, what are our predictions for how many pages this thread will get to? I'm thinking 200+. Maybe even 250. We're already up to six pages and the new season is still four weeks away.

I fear I may have seriously underestimated the Caf’s capacity to talk about Marcus Rashford….

 

[Trophy Room]

Just play him up front. Stretch the defence.

 

[M Bison]

If he does end up playing for us this season, what are our predictions for how many pages this thread will get to? I'm thinking 200+. Maybe even 250. We're already up to six pages and the new season is still four weeks away.

Would love a poll on this, got the most pages up to now with the least mins on the pitch which is odd, a bit daft imo and indicative of how this forum will behave over the season.

We do well - Rashy is good.
We do bad - Rashy is a bad’un.

 

[Andersons Dietician]

I’m hoping he is going to come back with a point to prove but based on what I saw today pre season or not he just doesn’t move or put in effort.

One of their goals he did his usual half arsed jog and gained like he was going to try and put a tackle in but like we’ve seen so often it’s just a bluff.

Really annoyed me the amount of walking about he did. Mbeumo and Lacey were moving all the time trying to press and then you’ve got this guy just strolling about. Looked like he wasn’t arsed and just waiting for his exit.

If he stays here is hoping Carrick can light a fire under him becuase if not early signs don’t look promising.

 

[Addled]

I’m hoping he is going to come back with a point to prove but based on what I saw today pre season or not he just doesn’t move or put in effort.

One of their goals he did his usual half arsed jog and gained like he was going to try and put a tackle in but like we’ve seen so often it’s just a bluff.

Really annoyed me the amount of walking about he did. Mbeumo and Lacey were moving all the time trying to press and then you’ve got this guy just strolling about. Looked like he wasn’t arsed and just waiting for his exit.

If he stays here is hoping Carrick can light a fire under him becuase if not early signs don’t look promising.

I didn’t see tonight’s game. However, from what you say Amorim was right in getting rid. Walking, little interest, what did Barca bring out of him that we can’t? I have to say that he is one of the players that I really admire and respect for his off field work

 

[Lennon7]

I’m hoping he is going to come back with a point to prove but based on what I saw today pre season or not he just doesn’t move or put in effort.

One of their goals he did his usual half arsed jog and gained like he was going to try and put a tackle in but like we’ve seen so often it’s just a bluff.

Really annoyed me the amount of walking about he did. Mbeumo and Lacey were moving all the time trying to press and then you’ve got this guy just strolling about. Looked like he wasn’t arsed and just waiting for his exit.

If he stays here is hoping Carrick can light a fire under him becuase if not early signs don’t look promising.

That’s how he played his whole career at United, certainly towards the end. I’m not sure he was that much more energetic at Barca.

Think he has to be an 85min throw on for a goal if he’s staying. Leaves us too open otherwise with his laziness.

 

[Posh Red]

That’s how he played his whole career at United, certainly towards the end. I’m not sure he was that much more energetic at Barca.

Think he has to be an 85min throw on for a goal if he’s staying. Leaves us too open otherwise with his laziness.

I’m sure he can be used in early rounds of the league cup or even in some of the UCL group games, potentially.

 

[Carrick_Ball]

I decided to take time and watch Rashford as he came in, boy, did Rashford walk casually. He did absolutely shit even in running around.
Let's say it's pre season but the signs and symptoms are still there.
Carrick has a massive job in his hands, with Rashford one of them

 

[Godfather]

I decided to take time and watch Rashford as he came in, boy, did Rashford walk casually. He did absolutely shit even in running around.
Let's say it's pre season but the signs and symptoms are still there.
Carrick has a massive job in his hands, with Rashford one of them

Yep. Watched him extra closely too. Especially out of possession. Was the same as always. Walking speed. No pressing, no closing down

 

[Carrick_Ball]

Yep. Watched him extra closely too. Especially out of possession. Was the same as always. Walking speed. No pressing, no closing down

We have to hope it is not a mistake to integrate him back to the team. Because if it goes wrong people will turn against Carrick and management for 'taking him back' and not Rashford himself as his behaviors are known.
It does seem the club has decided to pin it's hope on Mount, Shaw and Rashford and not sign their replacement. Hopefully it's a correct decision by the end of the season.

 

[OverratedOpinion]

I felt like he was pressing no less than anyone else. Won the ball back with some good aggressive pressing.

I'm not going to die on that hill because I had lost interest in the game by that point but I do feel like there may be some confirmation bias going on in here.

 

[Lennon7]

Is he number 9 too? Thought he was confirmed 14 or whatever

If so Romano has cost a lot of kids’ parents some cash

 

[Grande]

I felt like he was pressing no less than anyone else. Won the ball back with some good aggressive pressing.

I'm not going to die on that hill because I had lost interest in the game by that point but I do feel like there may be some confirmation bias going on in here.

To be honest, I saw the same as you. But some people always think small players are busy and tall players are sluggish, when they just look different when moving at 50% speed.

The tracking back of allmost all players today looked like it was a preseason game where nobody wanted to pull a hamstring right before the season starts. The biggest issue today was that even the defenders didn’t bother tracking back.

 

[Jeffthered]

Rashford is now Michael Carrick's issue and Carrick will be judged on how he manages him.

 

[Maureen-yo]

Is he number 9 too? Thought he was confirmed 14 or whatever

If so Romano has cost a lot of kids’ parents some cash

The club said that none of the numbers used today are significant in terms of the numbers they'll have for the season.

 

[NoPace]

I felt like he was pressing no less than anyone else. Won the ball back with some good aggressive pressing.

I'm not going to die on that hill because I had lost interest in the game by that point but I do feel like there may be some confirmation bias going on in here.

He sprinted a few times, but there's a noticeable difference between our attackers who are switched on 90% of the time defensively and everyone else.

In this 4-2-4 system, I'd have it like this:

A) Very good defensively. Alert and show effort and don't just run for 1.5 seconds and then call it a day if they don't win the ball. Would even satisfy Luis Enrique or Simeone - Amad, Mount

A-) Tries and tracks back and is really quite good overall - Dorgu (I think he has a shot to get to an A), Cunha

B) Tries but generally confused - Bruno

N/A) Too early to say - Lacey,
I honestly can't remember - Sesko

C+) The odd decent moment - Zirkzee

C) Can't say I've seen a ton of good stuff here - Mbeumo

D) Won't even bend a little to be ready to change directions or jab one way or the other to block passing lanes, just the odd sprint. Won't track back - Rashford in a good mood.

F) We don't have any attackers well over 30, but they sometimes end up here because Father Time is undefeated - Nobody/Rashford when he's in a bad mood

 

[MadDogg]

I felt like he was pressing no less than anyone else. Won the ball back with some good aggressive pressing.

I'm not going to die on that hill because I had lost interest in the game by that point but I do feel like there may be some confirmation bias going on in here.

Some players are decent at pressing when the ball is in front of them, but then get very lazy when the ball gets in behind them. Rashford on a good day is probably in that category and I do think that's what we saw against Milan, but on a bad day is poor at both.

Zirkzee is an example of the opposite. He's poor at pressing ahead of him, but actually gets back and helps out quite a lot in deeper areas.

Ideally you want players willing to do both.

 

[led_scholes]

Vibes fc and rashford back. The season has 2021-2022 and 2023-2024 written all over it.

And we deserve it.

 

[amolbhatia50k]

Hopefully he has a decent few cameos and we can sell him Jan. I’d personally prefer to just stick him in the reserves while someone else / new signing gets previous minutes. We’re wasting time and effort over this walker.

 

[TempusFugit]

Hopefully he has a decent few cameos and we can sell him Jan. I’d personally prefer to just stick him in the reserves while someone else / new signing gets previous minutes. We’re wasting time and effort over this walker.

Why don't we just sell Rashford right? Despite us struggling to bring in already desperately needed reinforcements let's sell a perfectly serviceable player and have one more position to replace and at the very least improve on. Nevermind that he's the only specialist LW in the squad with the other options being a fullback we're trying to convert and 10/ss who ends up drifting to the center of the pitch anyway. We're just going to make things more difficult because we don't like Rashford.

 

[SmallCaine]

Why don't we just sell Rashford right? Despite us struggling to bring in already desperately needed reinforcements let's sell a perfectly serviceable player and have one more position to replace and at the very least improve on. Nevermind that he's the only specialist LW in the squad with the other options being a fullback we're trying to convert and 10/ss who ends up drifting to the center of the pitch anyway. We're just going to make things more difficult because we don't like Rashford.

Yes we loaned him out to whoever would take him because we just didn't like him enough, then those clubs said no to buying him outright for cheap because they too just didn't like him enough, must be likability issue, absolutely nothing to do with his lazy attitude and lousy performances while being way overpaid or the constant media harping from his people about poor treatment of saint marcus, poor guy always a victim of people hating him unfairly.

 

[Marcus]

Objectively, he did well enough with his cameo. If he really tries to work hard and does well for United, we get the benefit of a relatively effective fast attacker and he gets to put himself in the shop window. If he is sold, then it's win-win-win.

 

[TempusFugit]

Yes we loaned him out to whoever would take him because we just didn't like him enough, then those clubs said no to buying him outright for cheap because they too just didn't like him enough, must be likability issue, absolutely nothing to do with his lazy attitude and lousy performances while being way overpaid or the constant media harping from his people about poor treatment of saint marcus, poor guy always a victim of people hating him unfairly.

I'm struggling to make sense of your post. Things didn't work out and the player is already here, it's clear that he will stay and be reintegrated, yet you're ranting about likability??? We're already struggling enough in the transfer market as is, even suggesting selling off our only LW at this point is a silly idea. You'd be better off not watching us this season if you dislike Rashford so much because he's 99% staying.

 

[SmallCaine]

I'm struggling to make sense of your post. Things didn't work out and the player is already here, it's clear that he will stay and be reintegrated, yet you're ranting about likability??? We're already struggling enough in the transfer market as is, even suggesting selling off our only LW at this point is a silly idea. You'd be better off not watching us this season if you dislike Rashford so much because he's 99% staying.

Its you confusing yourself that's what making you unable to to make sense of anything. Just read and try and understand your post that i replied to

Why don't we just sell Rashford right? Despite us struggling to bring in already desperately needed reinforcements let's sell a perfectly serviceable player and have one more position to replace and at the very least improve on. Nevermind that he's the only specialist LW in the squad with the other options being a fullback we're trying to convert and 10/ss who ends up drifting to the center of the pitch anyway. We're just going to make things more difficult because we don't like Rashford.

You aren't saying lets hope he succeeds because no one else wants him and we can't get rid of him, you actively want him to stick around maybe even get an extension how you seem to be defending him and think he is our only proper lw when in reality he is a mediocre player not worth keeping which is the whole reason he went out on multiple loans and it isn't my dislike of rashford making me think so, its a fact given literally no club who took him on loan want him back and no one new wants him either

 

[Borys]

He would be perfectly capable of winning LW spot if that was purely "attack attack attack" role. But it isn't, and he is defensively very poor and tactically inept.

Against Milan he actually pressed a lot, but most of those made no sense at all, he was the only player pressing and they could escape with a few simple passes, with Rashford jogging back from the goal line. This plus Shaw on LB is a recipe for disaster.

Dorgu and Cunha are far ahead of Rashford in the pecking order. Sometimes in last 15-20mins he will be useful if only for his pace and runs in behind, but that should be occasionally.

 

[Bigfoot2]

Its you confusing yourself that's what making you unable to to make sense of anything. Just read and try and understand your post that i replied to


You aren't saying lets hope he succeeds because no one else wants him and we can't get rid of him, you actively want him to stick around maybe even get an extension how you seem to be defending him and think he is our only proper lw when in reality he is a mediocre player not worth keeping which is the whole reason he went out on multiple loans and it isn't my dislike of rashford making me think so, its a fact given literally no club who took him on loan want him back and no one new wants him either

I agree but also think that his wages play a large part in other clubs not wanting him. He simply doesn't represent any sort of value for money and I can't imagine how Bruno, the teams engine, must feel at being paid less than him.

 

[TempusFugit]

Its you confusing yourself that's what making you unable to to make sense of anything. Just read and try and understand your post that i replied to


You aren't saying lets hope he succeeds because no one else wants him and we can't get rid of him, you actively want him to stick around maybe even get an extension how you seem to be defending him and think he is our only proper lw when in reality he is a mediocre player not worth keeping which is the whole reason he went out on multiple loans and it isn't my dislike of rashford making me think so, its a fact given literally no club who took him on loan want him back and no one new wants him either

Once again, very little sense in your posts. I replied to another user and you barged in with a failed attempt at sarcasm ranting about Rashford not being likable being the reason why no club wanted to keep him. I didn't even bother to respond to the "lousy performances" claim in your first response because it would be a waste of time.

It's not about what i want, the club has made a decision and you can't do anything about it. Where's that nonsense about Rashford getting an extension coming from? I didn't even mention that. It looks like you make up stuff to be mad about, i can't help you with that. Being (impotently) annoyed about Rashford staying isn't enough, you have to make up some nonsense in your head about him getting an extension to get even angrier. I'll defend Rashford because he's currently our player and an academy graduate, i can assure you that i don't like every player in our squad but I don't make it massive issue like some of you do.

 

[SmallCaine]

Once again, very little sense in your posts. I replied to another user and you barged in with a failed attempt at sarcasm ranting about Rashford not being likable being the reason why no club wanted to keep him. I didn't even bother to respond to the "lousy performances" claim in your first response because it would be a waste of time.

It's not about what i want, the club has made a decision and you can't do anything about it. Where's that nonsense about Rashford getting an extension coming from? I didn't even mention that. It looks like you make up stuff to be mad about, i can't help you with that. Being (impotently) annoyed about Rashford staying isn't enough, you have to make up some nonsense in your head about him getting an extension to get even angrier. I'll defend Rashford because he's currently our player and an academy graduate, i can assure you that i don't like every player in our squad but I don't make it massive issue like some of you do.

Hopefully he has a decent few cameos and we can sell him Jan. I’d personally prefer to just stick him in the reserves while someone else / new signing gets previous minutes. We’re wasting time and effort over this walker.

This is the post you replied to but please keep calling me names and pretending you don't want him to stick around because that post said literally nothing about getting rid of him right now and by the way we are struggling for reinforcements because we can't seem to give him away as no one wants him which means we get no additional funds to invest and he is drain on the wage a pretty big one at that.

 

[InspiRED]

To be honest, I saw the same as you. But some people always think small players are busy and tall players are sluggish, when they just look different when moving at 50% speed.

The tracking back of allmost all players today looked like it was a preseason game where nobody wanted to pull a hamstring right before the season starts. The biggest issue today was that even the defenders didn’t bother tracking back.

I'd advise against making this argument as it sounds like so much cope, and I don't think it's true. I think the trouble is more like that perceptions are hard to shake. And I think you need to accept that he really did spend a lot of time at Utd in the past walking/jogging about and looking disinterested.

When I read comments here about him walking about/jogging in the second half vs Milan, I could quite easily believe that because I've seen whole seasons of it. But I just watched the second half now, and I'd actually say if anything, that was probably up in the top 5/10% of Rashford's defensive performances. He's literally sprinting after defenders and lunging after the ball.

So the trouble is that perceptions of him are somewhat stuck now, but I think it's obviously important he gets given a fair shake of it. I dunno what people are watching to think he's just walking/jogging nonchalantly about after the ball, I find it a bit baffling, Some kind of confirmation bias going on I think.

 

[TempusFugit]

This is the post you replied to but please keep calling me names and pretending you don't want him to stick around because that post said literally nothing about getting rid of him right now and by the way we are struggling for reinforcements because we can't seem to give him away as no one wants him which means we get no additional funds to invest and he is drain on the wage a pretty big one at that.

Highlighting completely made up nonsense you were trying to attribute to me in your own post isn't calling you names. I already you told that whatever you, me or any other person wants is irrelevant. The club's verdict is in and Rashford likely stay barring some unlikely last minute offer. The club have known for months that Rashford would probably stay, in fact the buy option at Barcelona expired a while ago. If you think they haven't planned for that or thought up other strategies i don't know what to tell you. I guess it's more convenient for you to believe that big bad Rashford is the one blocking our transfer activity.

 

[SirScholes]

The player who performs the best deserves the place. Im sure you would also love being a Manchester United player but i dont think you deserve the place. I dont even think i want you near the squad eventhough you would love being a Manchester United player.

Not really the same is it. Probably the most ridiculous comparison I’ve ever seen in here
Cunha is a talented footballer, I am not?

How did it go last time rashford had a purple patch? Remind me

 

[Grande]

I'd advise against making this argument as it sounds like so much cope, and I don't think it's true. I think the trouble is more like that perceptions are hard to shake. And I think you need to accept that he really did spend a lot of time at Utd in the past walking/jogging about and looking disinterested.

When I read comments here about him walking about/jogging in the second half vs Milan, I could quite easily believe that because I've seen whole seasons of it. But I just watched the second half now, and I'd actually say if anything, that was probably up in the top 5/10% of Rashford's defensive performances. He's literally sprinting after defenders and lunging after the ball.

So the trouble is that perceptions of him are somewhat stuck now, but I think it's obviously important he gets given a fair shake of it. I dunno what people are watching to think he's just walking/jogging nonchalantly about after the ball, I find it a bit baffling, Some kind of confirmation bias going on I think.

You’re probably right about the inadvisability of the argument, and generalisation has it’s issues in itself. I don’t care too much if it sounds like coping mechanisms, I’m more interested in the truth, and I think there is relevant truth to it: There is a tendency for taller players to get underestimated for the defnsive work they do, because the 90% intensity movement looks more languid. We’ve seen it with how both Zirkzee and Sesko has been criticized for being lazy even when they pu the same miles down as others. I remember it with Rashford from back in the day when he was younger and critized for not working defensively even when he did a fair bit of defensive movement and pressing.

I think you are right about confirmation bias playing in, it’s probably the most underrated mechanism to explain how people perceive football matches differently., particularily because it’s how the brain organizes perception AND how recognition of patterns is organized, all on a preconscious level. We all do it and none of us notice it without looking for it.

In the case of Rashford, I noticed early there where several very different factors contributing to him being perceived as ‘lazy’ through the years.

1) Tactical awareness: Like many players when he was younger, he didn’t notice a lot of situations off the ball that should trigger movement. I suspect both that United academy at the time underprioritized tactical schooling in preference of technical expression, and I also suspect Rashford tactically is a bit of a slow learner.

2) Muscle type: Rashford has more of the sprinter type muscles than the long distance type, and I think in training this has strategically been exacerbated to maximise his biggest feature, attacking sprinting speed. It’s tricky to develop both equally.

3) Tactical instructions: We know (because they have said so) that several coaches have instructed Rashford to save energy and positional advantage by pressing less and tracking back less, in order to be higher up the pitch with more power for transitions.

4) Injury period: It’s known that there were some long periods where Rashfords running power was affected by playing through back issues and shoulder issues, and aftereffects of that. Much of this was played down and only came to light later.

5) Mental fortitude: What several coaches and teammates have said about Rashford, alligns with the view that he trains very well and is a positive and team oriented person, but is vulnerable to negative thinking in games. He plays best when happy, his head tends to drop in adversity. This is of course a big weakness, and looks a lot like laziness or entitlement, but isn’t quite the same.

6) Entourage. Several inside people have pointed out over time that Rashford has had many people around him wanting to profit from his success, and probably given bad advice. The impression I get reading between the lines is that Rashford is a bit of a simple, positive and maybe a bit naive (also young) man who has been influenced at times badly by agents and other ‘fellow travelers’. I don’t think this has directly affected what happened on the pitch, but has affected other choices, and the impression Rashford has given outside of football, leading to him being built up first as a hero for the poorly situated and standing up against racism, then as a world marketable brand, then as someone who should spend less attention to their hair and ‘buckle down’ - i.e. an entitled primadonna. We know this has affected Rashford indirectly on the pitch, because there have been incidents were he has reacted to fans approaching him to complain about him, and it has clearly had an effect on his play, mediated by his vulnerability to adversity.

I think these factors combined has led to a public perception that he is lazy and entitled, and whatever people who actually work with him say, it’s discarded because ‘you can see it with your own eyes’. Not all of these factors are there at the same time, but one or two of them will be at play all of the time, so people will always get their ‘laziness hypothesis’ confirmed whenever they watch him.

I am sure some will read this post and say ‘excuses, excuses’, but it would be foolish of them. All these things are easily verifiable facts if you look back into the history, they don’t become untrue just because someone can use them as excuses. For me, facts have to be taken into account, and what they tell me is that Rashford is neither lazy nor entitled compared to most others too level professional footballers. What these facts tell me, is that he has limitations to go with his strengths. It’s not a moral issue, it’s quite simply a practical issue. Good coaches like Emery, Flick and Tuchel all wanted to use and keep Rashford, but none of them found the valuation set by his combined fee and wages worth the investment over other players of similar quality. The clearly rate him of about similar quality as Anthony Gordon, looking at his strengths and weaknesses combined.

I think Murtaugh/Arnold/Ten Hag made a mistake giving him that insane contract in 2023. They were probably forced to make a choice, because it seems likely one of the big clubs, not being aware of his limitations, would have bought him then, with a great pay rise, and they either had to give him a bumper contract (negotiating not with Rashford, but with oarts of his entourage) or sell him. From a purely sporting perspective, they probably have recognized his limitations and sold him to PSG/Barca/Real Madrid for £80-100m which might actually have been feasible then. In their defense, I would say that both Rashford’s performance on the pitch, his age and his status as a Busby babe-style homegrown star to help the Man Utd brand made it easy to hope a corner had been turned for good, but it turned out a mistake, and understanding his limitations should have made it possible to avvoid. Either way it’s water under the bridge. The contracrmt is signed and lasts until it runs out one way or the other.

Due to this interpretation of facts, I don’t worry about Rashford being or becoming toxic in the dressing room or affecting the team morale a la Ronaldo. The one thing I worry about is the amount of people with a strong buy-in to the Laziness Hypothesis’, and that that sentiment will affect, through SoMe and punditry, Rashford, the team and Carrick as a diversion.

The reason I bother to go into detsiled discussion about this here, is not that I want Rashford to stay. It’s because he is already here, a Man Utd player and part of the team, and I think in full seriousness that if by some sleight of miracule that the entire United fanbase as of tomorrow discarded the Laziness Hypothesis completely and recognized Rashford for the strengths and limitations he documentably has, it would be a pure bonus to have him in the squad.

 

[amolbhatia50k]

Why don't we just sell Rashford right? Despite us struggling to bring in already desperately needed reinforcements let's sell a perfectly serviceable player and have one more position to replace and at the very least improve on. Nevermind that he's the only specialist LW in the squad with the other options being a fullback we're trying to convert and 10/ss who ends up drifting to the center of the pitch anyway. We're just going to make things more difficult because we don't like Rashford.

Because he’s abysmal off the ball and we don’t need that.

Perfectly serviceable useless off the ball yet one of the highest paid PL players. Getting rid of Rashford was about shedding all the loafers and modernising this team. That he’s back in a slap in the face of our supposed progress.

 

[TempusFugit]

Because he’s abysmal off the ball and we don’t need that.

Perfectly serviceable useless off the ball yet one of the highest paid PL players. Getting rid of Rashford was about shedding all the loafers and modernising this team. That he’s back in a slap in the face of our supposed progress.

It's overblown how bad off the ball he is. He's perfectly capable of pressing or sprinting back and putting in a tackle, i could probably find you tens of situations (remember him getting back against Arsenal, giving away a corner and getting torn to pieces due to it) of him doing exactly that before he left. Carrick will set the demands and standards he must adhere to and will have no problem dropping him if he doesn't meet them. Think back to Carrick's first stint as caretaker, he had no problem dropping Ronaldo for tactical reasons vs Chelsea. Fans fixate on Rashford being "lazy" way too much. He is bad at pressing, not completely unable to do it. I find all the complaining funny because the club + Carrick (who obviously pushed for it) are in agreement for Rashford to stay.

 

[SirScholes]

It's overblown how bad off the ball he is. He's perfectly capable of pressing or sprinting back and putting in a tackle, i could probably find you tens of situations (remember him getting back against Arsenal, giving away a corner and getting torn to pieces due to it) of him doing exactly that before he left. Carrick will set the demands and standards he must adhere to and will have no problem dropping him if he doesn't meet them. Think back to Carrick's first stint as caretaker, he had no problem dropping Ronaldo for tactical reasons vs Chelsea. Fans fixate on Rashford being "lazy" way too much. He is bad at pressing, not completely unable to do it. I find all the complaining funny because the club + Carrick (who obviously pushed for it) are in agreement for Rashford to stay.

I think this is the issue, we know he is capable he just doesn’t do it
I.e lazy

 

[amolbhatia50k]

It's overblown how bad off the ball he is. He's perfectly capable of pressing or sprinting back and putting in a tackle, i could probably find you tens of situations (remember him getting back against Arsenal, giving away a corner and getting torn to pieces due to it) of him doing exactly that before he left. Carrick will set the demands and standards he must adhere to and will have no problem dropping him if he doesn't meet them. Think back to Carrick's first stint as caretaker, he had no problem dropping Ronaldo for tactical reasons vs Chelsea. Fans fixate on Rashford being "lazy" way too much. He is bad at pressing, not completely unable to do it. I find all the complaining funny because the club + Carrick (who obviously pushed for it) are in agreement for Rashford to stay.

A homegrown player who is on 300k plus per week was out on loan. But no, he’s actually great and his flaws are “overblown”. He’s abysmal of the ball. He tries if he’s in the mood but even then he’s ineffectual. No player is completely unable to do it but if you have a player who is a 2/10 at it, it kills the team. Unless you want us playing small club hit them on the break footy

 

[Stadjer]

Not really the same is it. Probably the most ridiculous comparison I’ve ever seen in here
Cunha is a talented footballer, I am not?

How did it go last time rashford had a purple patch? Remind me

I think it is a bit ridiculous you want to play the player that 'looks like he loves to be a Man Utd player'. It is Manchester United, the best player should play. It is not like Rashford has no talent. There is a reason that he plays for Manchester United and did quite well for Barcelona last season. If Rashford performs better than he should play over Cunha. I think Cunha is ahead of Rashford based on how Cunha played last season but if Rashford turns out to be perform better than Cunha can sit on the bench and try to get his spot back. Competition is good and the best player plays, not the player who looks like he loves the club more.

Rashford his purple patch? I dont exactly get what you are refering too? He scored loads of goals of Ten Hag his team when he was doing well. I would like it if he could also score loads of goals for Carrick his team. The bad Rashford version has no chance to take Cunha his spot anyway.

 

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I think it is a bit ridiculous you want to play the player that 'looks like he loves to be a Man Utd player'. It is Manchester United, the best player should play. It is not like Rashford has no talent. There is a reason that he plays for Manchester United and did quite well for Barcelona last season. If Rashford performs better than he should play over Cunha. I think Cunha is ahead of Rashford based on how Cunha played last season but if Rashford turns out to be perform better than Cunha can sit on the bench and try to get his spot back. Competition is good and the best player plays, not the player who looks like he loves the club more.

Rashford his purple patch? I dont exactly get what you are refering too? He scored loads of goals of Ten Hag his team when he was doing well. I would like it if he could also score loads of goals for Carrick his team. The bad Rashford version has no chance to take Cunha his spot anyway.

I think you’re applying that with no context at all, I didn’t pick a random player I picked a talented player, who had massive moments for us last year and clearly embraces being a Man Utd player
Rashford does not want to be here for me he should be 3rd choice despite his talent
We’ve tried having talent over squad harmony before and it led to a shit show