Why are the other players tolerating this? Keane would have torn him a new one. Rooney as well.
Because some how we’ve gone from real leaders like Robson, Keane, Bruce, Schmeichel and Vidic and players ego always gave 100% like Irwin, Beckham, Neville and Rooney to the likes of Pogba, Lingard, Sancho and Rashford who care far more about their off pitch status and PR than playing football even though that’s what puts them in the spotlight and pays them an obscene amount of money.
Reality is it started at the very top with Woodward who thought of himself as the big chief in a billion pound company and boasted about our status and finances and only concerned himself with what made his masters happy, money which was brought in through our commercial appeal with sponsorships and high reputation players.
I remember Rooney telling a story about Pogba and Lingard dancing and singing after a bad defeat so because he and Carrick were the senior players they gave them a proper dressing down but once the likes of Pogba and Lingard became senior players that mindset filtered down and it’s how Rashford became how he is.
The best thing Ratcliffe can do is to rid ourselves of everyone with that mindset and I’d honestly accept 2-3 years of rebuild in order to create the right atmosphere and mindset in the club again, I want to see people fighting for the shirt and giving 100% every game even if we lose because giving 100% every match is the bare fecking minimum even if Rashford believes he’s above it.
