Manchester United view sidelining Marcus Rashford as key to cultural reboot

Is rasherford the sacrificial lamb? The club has bigger fish to fry and we need players who bring home the bacon.
 
It's the right thing to do. It's pathetic that some of the lads can't even put an effort in for the new manager and prove their worth. It's always been a mentality issue though, they don't have it in them to keep going. Shame Rashford has given up though, I'm sure he'll enjoy a nice holiday in Saudi or Turkey next summer.

Swap for Osimhen?
 
£365k a week for a player who has a decent season every three years is madness.

Cannot see many takers unless Utd pay a share of his wages
 
Problem with him and too many people is our standards have dropped so much.

I’ve always thought Rashford wasn’t that great, he just doesn’t have that much to his game.

Garnacho does fall into this category for me as well. He’s not bad, and he has moments of brilliance, but consistently, he just doesn’t have that many tools in his locker.

Amad already looks better than both. Can take players on, run at defenders, keep the ball in tight situations and has a good footballing brain.

We’ve just been a team of this for years now. Individual brilliance that saves the day, and then reward them with bigger contracts.
 
I doubt the situation is as dire or set in stone as this article suggests.

However, Amorim has done the right thing by putting the ball in the court of Rashford & Garnacho.

If they don't knuckle down, they'll be sold. A good outcome made all the better by the result at the weekend and a 22 Yr old working his socks off and being the match winner.
 
Port Vale Devil said:
£365k a week for a player who has a decent season every three years is madness.

Cannot see many takers unless Utd pay a share of his wages
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Agreed. Who would want to take a player that United have essentially just blamed for the decline of Manchester United?
 
Rashford as a luxury player might well look great in a well oiled, functional team, but I don't think he has the mentality to do what we need at this point in the rebuild.

I said at the time, the new contract was madness, and so it has proven to be. It's an awful situation, I struggle to see a way back for him, but unless he is willing to take a massive payout, I equally don't see many exit options for him either.
 
Utd need to move on from the likes of Martial, Pogba, Sancho and Rashford. For the wages Rashford gets even if struggling for form you can work for your team and put in a shift.

There just doesn’t seem any desire from him
 
It's definitely got to the stage where a clean break is best for all concerned.

If INEOS managed to find a buyer for Sancho, maybe they can shift Rashford as well, despite the challenges.
 
Attila said:
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ited-marcus-rashford-cultural-reboot-garnacho

Crucial first step or disgraceful way to treat club legend Rashford...
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Club legend? I’m a fan, I’d love him to serve humble pie to some fans and id give the guy much more leeway than most players but he’s got a lot to do to become a ‘club legend’. The challenge now is if he is up for the fight to get there or if he thinks he already made it and just wants the easy life.
 
Super Hans said:
Agreed. Who would want to take a player that United have essentially just blamed for the decline of Manchester United?
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In the words of the great Heath Ledger:

"It's not about the money. It's about sending a message."
 
It probably is time for him to leave now but some of the stuff written about him have been fecking grim. Both of these things can be true.

The insane amount of young attacking players that have not reached their potential at the club shows that it was never just a Rashford problem. The whole club has been a toxic mess for so long. Young Ronaldo/Rooney would have been written off playing under these circumstances.
 
The minute he went out in Dublin last year I would have got rid, he should be a senior member setting the standard, not an 18 year old kid. A lot is expected of you to play at the top level, fair or not and in exchange they get an inordinate amount, he doesnt have the correct behaviour for someone who is supposed to be a leader/ elder in the group.

100% Sell and make an example, he shit over the club on more than one occassion.
 
there's nothing disgraceful about demanding a certain standard, especially when you're a senior player on high wages. You're supposed to set an example for younger players to follow. Pretty simple concept really, and Rashford has fallen short of even the most lenient expectations for a couple of years now. Thoroughly outplayed and outworked by hungrier players. I have no idea if there's even a market for him, given the combination of poor play and high wages, but if there is, it's go time.
 
If he can't be bothered to put an effort in with the new manager he obviously has to go. He's had plenty of chances, if he doesn't care enough why should we.
 
Some parallels between Arsenal getting rid of Aubameyang but it provokes a sadness in me.

Rashford was a local lad who came through the academy and now to see him as something we need to get rid of in what should be his prime is not how the story should end.

I really hope we're not talking the same way about Mainoo in 8-10 years.
 
He delivered many great moments for this club, was one of the few shining stars in some of our worst years, but we have repaid that by sticking by him after all the bad seasons as well.

End of the season will be the right time to part ways. I do hope he gets a nice send off.
 
Jamie Jackson doesn't actually have any sources at United. He's just made an article out of the obvious.
 
Feel like he would do really well at Bayern or PSG somewhere you can get a bit of confidence stat padding.
 
I don’t see how these briefs(?)/articles will help moving him on, but alas

For what is worth, the manager said both him and Garnacho trained really well the session before the derby though
 
How did Man Utd, of all clubs, who had SAF as manager for 26 years demanding the highest standards of everyone, allow this to happen?
How did it take so many years and managers to finally have people in place that demand the best again?

This is brilliant and so so long overdue. Get rid of him and anyone else with the same attitude
 
I think it's always sad to see a homegrown player be set aside or sold but Rashford has been truly awful for ages now. Not only has he been awful on the pitch but he's not helped himself by being caught up in several off the field controversies. I struggle to see a way back for him really. The onus is on him and I don't believe he has it in him to get back to his best at United.
 
Real shame how it's ending but we absolutely do need to get rid. Emblematic of how poorly run the club was (hopefully changing now) and how in thrall to our 'stars' we've been. His attitude and application seem awful and he seems to have bought into his own hype to the detriment of his game and career. I won't miss him but I'll always be grateful for some of the good times he gave us.
 
Igor Drefljak said:
Garnacho does fall into this category for me as well. He’s not bad, and he has moments of brilliance, but consistently, he just doesn’t have that many tools in his locker.

Amad already looks better than both. Can take players on, run at defenders, keep the ball in tight situations and has a good footballing brain.
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Amad is two years older than Garnacho.
 
Sadly this has benefits all around.

From a club point of view selling Rashford ticks a lot of boxes on the PSR front, which if you believe some of the journo's we are sailing pretty close to the wind. Home grown talent on mega bucks etc.

Good bit of PR etc

Listen I'm no hater of Rashford and always want our home grown talent to excel. Let's be fair though, his performances have just not been to the standard, nowhere near it. He has outlived every manager since LVG. Clearly he is not happy at the club and we don't know what he's wrestling with outside of the club, maybe a move is what he needs. There is a player in there who can be devastating but were just not seeing it
 
If it was just down to form alone you could argue either way about whether Rashford stays or goes BUT the fact he puts zero effort in pretty much every game just makes it an easy decision to make, it isn’t just a case of Rashford struggling tactically under a new head coaches new system as he’s been the same under 5 or 6 different head coaches bar a couple of seasons.

There’s also the fact that outside of goals when he does actually score Rashford offers nothing else on the pitch as he’s not a creative player, has a very low footballing IQ and as a supposed team leader he is a horrible example to other players especially youngsters at the club.
 
If we’re to drag ourselves out of this 10 year slump then there can no longer be any room for sentiment, something which previous managers have constantly fallen into the trap of. It’s a shame but if he doesn’t want it then he doesn’t want it. I get the impression Amorim is firm in his beliefs but fair, he won’t unjustly marginalise a player now or in the future to deflect from his own failings unlike Jose et al.
 
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