Footballing rhetoric states that 'competition for places is always a good thing', however, there are certainly more ideal scenarios than others for when that occurs. Typically, you wouldn't have Lewandowski and Kane competing with each other, for example. A more ideal scenario is perhaps a Kobbie Mainoo challenging Casemiro, or a Fred challenging McTominay when neither are spectacular.
Then we have Garnacho and Rashford. A promising teenage talent challenging our supposed star player and highest earner who is at a prime age and has just signed a new 5 year contract. Now that's awkward. What can't be denied is that Rashford has been amongst our poorest players this season. As far as our forward players go, Garnacho has been amongst our best. He's only 19 but if he continues on an upwards trajectory, that will create a big Marcus Rashford problem, especially as the right hand side experiment has not gone brilliantly and to compound it - Antony (our 90m right winger) has also started showing signs of life.
I can't foresee a scenario where Marcus Rashford being a sub for a prolonged period becoming a problem and also a huge media distraction for us. That said, if Garnacho just so happens to be the real deal - then he'll have to go sooner rather than later.
The ideal thing would be for Rashford to return to form. Frankly, we need it. We need a regularly scoring forward. That said, if by the time he does, Garnacho has shown himself to be just a little bit too special to be a sub - then we would then have ourselves a Garnacho problem. He's not going to just sit and wait for Rashford to turn 34.
Then we have Garnacho and Rashford. A promising teenage talent challenging our supposed star player and highest earner who is at a prime age and has just signed a new 5 year contract. Now that's awkward. What can't be denied is that Rashford has been amongst our poorest players this season. As far as our forward players go, Garnacho has been amongst our best. He's only 19 but if he continues on an upwards trajectory, that will create a big Marcus Rashford problem, especially as the right hand side experiment has not gone brilliantly and to compound it - Antony (our 90m right winger) has also started showing signs of life.
I can't foresee a scenario where Marcus Rashford being a sub for a prolonged period becoming a problem and also a huge media distraction for us. That said, if Garnacho just so happens to be the real deal - then he'll have to go sooner rather than later.
The ideal thing would be for Rashford to return to form. Frankly, we need it. We need a regularly scoring forward. That said, if by the time he does, Garnacho has shown himself to be just a little bit too special to be a sub - then we would then have ourselves a Garnacho problem. He's not going to just sit and wait for Rashford to turn 34.