Rashford may have scored more goals in 22/23, but 19/20 was his best season. His all-round game was comfortably better that season.Seems there's a degree of cherry picking here. Forgetting that rashford himself had by far his best spell 2 seasons ago under the current coaches, it also seems selective to say dalot mainly improved while away.
very interesting. maybe I am naive in never having considered this before but this would explain a lot. particularly with ETH but I can think of other examples of players who's status as starter baffled me.I've heard a couple of footballers say it. My younger brother is friends with a prem footballer (man City) and he was telling us how contracts have changed and work.
Said a lot of things but mainly, and this is my words not his, that a SAF/Clough type manager would not work now. Would be dismissed for bullying/harassment etc.
Player contracts are so large and such detail that often it's not money why clubs decide not to sign a player.
He specifically said that minutes played is a big issue in player contracts.
Mainoo and Garnacho are a product of the youth coaching staff, which by all account has been good in recent years, neither have particularly improved since joining the first team, maybe they will but it's not something that I can state one way or the other. Rashford best season was largely an inconsistent one with a purple patch(between late December 22 and mid February 23) that wasn't based on his overall game improving which was the point made in that post, he hasn't improved, he can score goals when he is confident but his game is as limited as it was in 2015.
And there is nothing overnight about his development, as someone that has been very supportive of Rashford and accepting of his limitations. Rashford has been a limited wide striker(not winger or midfielder) for the best part of a decade, he can score goals in bunches but he is limited, his dribbling, movement, decision making and passing are as inconsitent as it gets, the only thing you can rely on him for, is to score goals if someone else creates regularly good chances, Rashford won't regularly create from himself, he isn't going to contribute to the build up and he isn't going to create often for others.
I think not crediting current senior coaches with integrating young players to the enormous step up to the premier league is quite harsh.
Just to clarify, I said that what happened overnight was his fall off. He returned from an excellent season, where the whole club looked to be improving and genuinely performed about as well as bebe did at times. Ive never seen such a dramatic decline from a player without age/injury accounting for it.
The point was about improvement, so no it's not harsh. Unless you think that Mainoo or Garnacho markedly improved, in which case your claim could make sense otherwise it doesn't.
Mainoo and Garnacho are a product of the youth coaching staff, which by all account has been good in recent years, neither have particularly improved since joining the first team, maybe they will but it's not something that I can state one way or the other. Rashford best season was largely an inconsistent one with a purple patch(between late December 22 and mid February 23) that wasn't based on his overall game improving which was the point made in that post, he hasn't improved, he can score goals when he is confident but his game is as limited as it was in 2015.
And there is nothing overnight about his development, as someone that has been very supportive of Rashford and accepting of his limitations. Rashford has been a limited wide striker(not winger or midfielder) for the best part of a decade, he can score goals in bunches but he is limited, his dribbling, movement, decision making and passing are as inconsitent as it gets, the only thing you can rely on him for, is to score goals if someone else creates regularly good chances, Rashford won't regularly create from himself, he isn't going to contribute to the build up and he isn't going to create often for others.
