To all self proclaimed doctors in here. You can play with injuries. It is not that rare and many players do as long as it is not muscular and other injuries that need resting or some kind of bigger treatment. I'm seeing some using this as a beating stick against Solskjaer is not that shocking. Agenda.
We have been through this once but needs to be said again. Managers don't decide if a player is injuried or not. It is doctors. They talk with the player and they decide if the player can be available for games. It is then up to manager to decide if this player is needed or not. Once again. Managers don't decide if a player is injuried.
When operation is needed you can decide if you need to have it immediately (with broken legs/bones) or can wait until end of season. If Rashford needs one and twitter is true, it is about choosing looking at risks and gains. Do ManUtd send him to operation table and he miss a month or more meaning we lose a player. Or does he play until end of season and get operation.
Get you point, but I think you look at the problem in black or white.
There is a big gray area as well! And when it comes to the quite complicated human body, I belive the gray area is quite big!
The decisions within the gray area, are the ones were decisions are taken with the surrounding added to the ekvation. For ex. Rashford miss the Euros if he makes the surgery. Man Utd are fighting for the top four and Ole prefer the 90% god Rashford than no Rashford...
If the added things in the ekvation was deleted I guess he would have the surgery today. The reson for that is because it would be for the best of his body.
I know players can and do play with injuries. But it is a gamble. Probably it turns out ok more often than not. And the gamble is on the player, not the club.
There is quite a lott storys out there to reed about other sports and the unwillingness from teams to listen to the medical reports. And what the result with that have/had on the players.
How is it with kids i the UK? There are quite a lott medical reports saying that it shouldn't be aloud with headers in the under fifteen games.
My point is that the medicals don't always get i right, and that the one who pays your check always has a say!
And the player has a say as well of course. If Rashford gets a second opinion telling everything will be ok until after the euros, the decision gets easier to make for the club that wants the same thing.
You did write that they do choose between gain and risk, so I guess we have the same thoughts about how teams do this.
But a team under big pressure can easily move the line to suit the money instead of, the best for the player.