Good news I think - he has looked to have a little bit of a niggle recently, so a couple of weeks break seems ideal. Would have been a disaster for us if he’d made it worse playing for England.
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Hope it’s not a serious/actual injury
I'm not quite seeing the same player as of a few weeks ago. Tends to look a bit nonchalant in certain situations. Because he's been doing so well for us recently we tend to look past his mistakes. At the moment he's making far too many.
I came on this thread this morning hoping he'd have pulled out of England duty, really glad that he has now. Clearly needs a rest.
We'll need him if we're going to win the available treble
We'll need him if we're going to win the available treble
Can’t lie, I’m delighted at the news he can rest and recuperate during the international break, hope his ‘knock’ isn’t too bad.
It’s not as if Southgate has shown that he values him. Hope he rests up and continues to fire post break.
He's been poor for a few games, nothing crazy considering the incredible run of form he has been on. This injury might be a reason for his poor play too and this break will hopefully be good to him
We also haven’t given him much service. Appreciate we expect him to just do incredible things on his own but it would really help if we had control of the midfield etc. On the odd occasion we did get the ball to him, he still looked dangerous yesterday - two nice key passes to Bruno and Weghorst and a beautiful cross that someone should have been on the end of.
I agree he still looks dangerous just a couple things like tracking back a bit less and being a bit more selfish/unsuccessful with his attacking play that I think some have picked up on. The midfield is definitely our weakness right now though and Eriksen back after the international break will be huge.
Very good point mate
Players would do that only for a good manager. So it is a measure of the manager.
Southgate will be delighted. No Rashford means no questions about why he continues to pick his favourites ahead of Rashford.
Southgate's comments after Qatar 22, about why Rashford didn't play more, genuinely laughable.
Yeah, that’s fair I think. My comment was probably more aimed at the one you responded to in fairness (which said he was making far too many mistakes). I don’t think he’s been at his best but he hasn’t been bad either.
Must have missed it, what did he say?
To be fair we don't really know how we would cope without Bruno because he always plays. But with eriksen out there is no one who can do what he does for us to even near the same standard in my opinion. I would have him with rashford and casemiro personally.
Oh, how I would love to see England struggling going forward...
If Rashford from last season had turned up where would we be now? Probably about 10th.
Would everything look as rosy as now? Nope.
I like this manager too but we need better and more reliable players to play with Rashy.
Our highest scorer after Rashy has like 6 goals. We'd have been screwed this season without him given the Ronaldo drop off and the Martial injuries.
You didn’t want him at the World Cup Gareth, so tough shit. Give that man a spa day and tell him we‘ll see him in April.
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I suppose you were ok with people saying Ole only had a job because of Bruno? It's just hyperbole. Rashford is clearly our best attacker, and alas, our talisman. We have a non-scoring CF, and Antony is still settling in. Rashford has stepped up, and I commend ETH on getting the best out of him.
I'm not getting in his back by the way. ETH was my number 1 choice and delighted we have him.
Rashford finding his form has definitely papered over some cracks though. Recent weeks have shown that the cracks are still there with this team.
He got injured against Barcelona at home, and has been playing every match since without a rest. He's deffo got something that he needs to shake off.
A rest will do him some good.
I don't really agree with papering over cracks tbh. I think under previous managers we certainly did, but not now. Fundamentally, we are playing much better football, and up until recently, we were winning games relatively comfortably.
ETH has overachieved this season, and as a result, we have played a colossal amount of games with a squad that lacks depth. What we're seeing now is serious fatigue, and I agree that the last few weeks have been fairly ropey. I personally feel he's managed a crazy 2023 really well, given what he has at his disposal. Everyone has dropped off a level or two recently, Rashford included. I'm hoping after the international break we have a few players back and can get back to better performances.
I know what you're saying, we'd be buggered without him.
But hopefully the club and fans would all make a managerial allowance for us not having anyone who can get in double figures.
We would absolutely. If Martial could stay fit less so as I think he'd score a fair amount too. Trouble is he can't stay fit.
Funny how football works isn't it? He was the player everyone couldn't wait to bash last season and now he's the one player we can't really do without until we address the forward position in the summer.
It’s time Mbappe joined us and partnered with Rashford. We’d be lethal
Well I know you're a big Rashford fan so it felt to you he was getting the brunt of the criticism. To me everyone was getting slated and probably rightly so
Was at the Barcelona match where he was injured with a bad tackle. Clearly has been playing half fit since and wise to pull out of the English squad for some rest now.
Smart lad, pulled out of England duty
This isn’t even one of those bullshit selfish Ferguson power moves. The guy has legitimately played so fecking much this season.
Take a gander at these appearance stats and look who are the top 3 for all competitions in the entire world this season:
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/statistik/gesamteinsaetze
Take a gander at these appearance stats and look who are the top 3 for all competitions in the entire world this season:
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/statistik/gesamteinsaetze
And both Bruno and Rashford put in the hard yards and don't stroll around the pitch like Ronaldo / Messi. If you look at the actual high intensity work stats (sprints, distance etc.) then it'll look even worse.
I should think Ivan Toney will be pleased to finally be in with getting a chance on the pitch after being left out of the World Cup squad. He has more goals and assists this season than Rashford.
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Southgate played Bukayo Saka, Phil Foden and Kane to start. Rashford came on later. Hardly some puzzling outlandish choice.
In any case, Rashford has grounds to call Southgate out as "a bag of shit", à la Éric Cantona. England don't deserve Marcus Rashford, not after the way he was treated at the World Cup.
I know jackasses among the Newcastle fanbase think Marcus is out for our game in 2 weeks, but I hope they will have a bad surprise when Rashford will come back fully rested and fresh.
Others were getting it too of course. Did feel like Rashford was getting the brunt of it though. Morons on here and twitter calling him 'meals on wheels' and stuff like that. Shameful.
Glad I was proven right. You don't just forget how to score goals and be a threat. He was always going to come back to good form.
The team around him isn't great though. Sancho n Antony are fairly mediocre players, Weghorst is out of his depth. Garnacho is a real talent but is still very raw. Martial is a quality player when he's actually available but he never is.
We need to refresh this forward line this summer. Move some on and bring some new blood in.
If you have peace why talk about it? no secure person has to proof they're not insecure.
Just piss off and go back playing 6 at the back against Italy.
Chilling around in New York according to his Insta Profil. He is quite active posting pictures and stories the last 24 hours.
Definitely a little bit of a "feck youu" into the direction of Southgate for me.
And I would fully support him if so.
Definitely a little bit of a "feck youu" into the direction of Southgate for me.
And I would fully support him if so.
He fully earned the right to. Some national managers, like Southgate and Moriyasu (Japan), deserve the middle finger for being absolute dipshits towards their most in-form players at the moment.
Getting some much needed rest and downtime!
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