Marcus Rashford image 10

Marcus Rashford England flag

2024-25 Performances

View full 2024-25 profile

4.9 Season Average Rating
Appearances
24
Goals
7
Assists
3
Yellow cards
3
tomaldinho1 said:
I think it’s less actually him, not to downplay anything, but more just playing with Emery who is fully bedded in at Villa and in a team that knows its roles etc. He’s a limited player but as a LW who plays quite high he is effective. I would suspect if you viewed his heatmap from Villa compared to when he played for us, he’d be way concentrated around/near the opponent’s box versus deeper for us
Click to expand...

Probably. Because Villa are a better team than us. Hence they spend more time around the opposition box.
 
LawCharltonBest said:
It is quite bothersome to see how much passion he is showing there. He didn't seem to care here, even when he scored
Click to expand...
Because we can't attack and when we lose the ball, we have to wait another 20 mins to make another decent attack. Utd strikers don't get any chance and just one chance is all each player gets. So that just frustrates our strikers. Yet other teams always make several attacks each player and that makes them more confident.
 
Brwned said:
This scenario isn’t remotely similar to Sancho and you’d have to be blind with hatred / disgust / whatever not to see that.
Click to expand...

I'd have to be blinded with hatred to see that for 18 months rashford didn't seem to think the club was worth jogging for, consistently training well for, not going clubbing in another country the night before training for? Ok. Not to mention the tiresome media briefings and his announcement that hes ready for something new, while stinking the place out with his zero out of ten effort.

Its actually very simple with rashford. For 30 months out of the last 4 years he has been absolutely shit. Lazy. Crap. Toxic. He's the only player who can be so consistently horrific and lazy and have people put criticism down to 'hatred'. Truly bizarre. Good riddance to the lazy prick
 
Last edited:
Why he is doing well? Because there is someone who can put the ball in the net. United always ball world class strikers from Huges, Cantona, Ruud, Rooney, Ronaldo, Berbatov, Cole, Yorke and etc. Strikers are expensive so some idiot decided that Hoijund should lead the like. That's why we suck.
 
tomaldinho1 said:
Also the role doesn’t exist with our formation really.
Click to expand...

Well no but we’ve a huge body of evidence for him playing a formation in which that role does exist at Manchester United. The majority of which has been as generally underwhelming as he’s looked while playing for Villa. When he’s not in the middle of a goalscoring hot streak he just looks like a mediocre PL wide attacker. At United and now at Villa. Which was my point.
 
r0663664 said:
Why he is doing well? Because there is someone who can put the ball in the net. United always ball world class strikers from Huges, Cantona, Ruud, Rooney, Ronaldo, Berbatov, Cole, Yorke and etc. Strikers are expensive so some idiot decided that Hoijund should lead the like. That's why we suck.
Click to expand...

Is he doing well? A couple of mediocre performances and 2 assists from the bench tonight. Predictably no goals. He's doing about as 'well' as sancho was. To think that at 27 something is going to just click for this guy is crazy. He scored 7 goals for us this season - but he was still absolutely shit.

Overreacting every time a complete failure here does something useful elsewhere is a weird sort of masochism that's infected United fans
 
Squeaky_Bum_Time said:
Nothing I’m about to say means I wanted Rashford to stay. It was time for a change, for his sake and ours BUT…

We can all go along pretending that all the good players we’ve signed and brought through become shit because they’re selfish overpaid cnuts, or maybe, at some point, we start wondering what the hell is in the water at this club.

I don’t know if it is the weight of expectation and the size of the club, or it’s the contracts we’ve doled out that created a terrible environment, or the mismanagement top to bottom that means no one thrives here long term, but IMO we have a good amount of evidence now that something is off that goes beyond one player or one set of players.

If I was to ask you to make a bet on if Dorgu improves from here on out, or becomes just another shit player who our fanbase can’t wait to get rid off, where would you put your money? How many signings have met expectations, let alone exceeded them, over the past decade? How many academy players came through and stuck around and performed well?
Click to expand...

Most of the time the biggest issue has been pushing our squad forward with smart, timely purchases to strengthen the weakest areas of the team when we were in CL places.

Just look at our windows from 2020-2023. That's the problem. The key is to constantly look to strengthen and that entire period of time is a complete disaster all while the totality of the league was improving to a level where we couldn't just expect the minimum of finishing at least in Europa spots.

When you miss on VdB, Antony, Casemiro (aged out, good initially), Mount, Eriksen (aged out, good initially), Hojlund, Onana (I think he's a fine keeper, but nothing special), Malacia, Cavani (aged out, good initially), etc.

From that entire time period how many players are either part of the current core part of our squad deservedly or could be moved for good value?

Rashford falling off wouldn't be as big of an issue if we didn't have horrific recruitment at high fees and wages over an extended period of time. That's the issue.
 
SER19 said:
I'd have to be blinded with hatred to see that for 18 months rashford didn't seem to think the club was worth jogging for, consistently training well for, not going clubbing in another country the night before training for? Ok. Not to mention the tiresome media briefings and his announcement that hes ready for something new, while stinking the place out with his zero out of ten effort.

Its actually very simple with rashford. For 30 months out of the last 4 years he has been absolutely shit. Lazy. Crap. Toxic. He's the only player who can be so consistently horrific and lazy and have people put criticism down to 'hatred'. Truly bizarre. Good riddance to the lazy prick
Click to expand...
Nope, none of those things. Because they’re all very specific to Rashford. What I was talking about was the comparison to Sancho, where he has a few good weeks and then “reverts to dogshit”. There’s nothing similar in their performances and the problems they have are very different. The fact you responded to everything other than the specific point I made is kind of the point. You’re trying far too hard to create an angle to talk about how much disdain you have for him, so you can’t seriously think you’re making a serious point.
 
Brwned said:
Nope, none of those things. Because they’re all very specific to Rashford. What I was talking about was the comparison to Sancho, where he has a few good weeks and then “reverts to dogshit”. There’s nothing similar in their performances and the problems they have are very different. The fact you responded to everything other than the specific point I made is kind of the point. You’re trying far too hard to create an angle to talk about how much disdain you have for him, so you can’t seriously think you’re making a serious point.
Click to expand...

There's nothing similar in rashford and sanchos performances? Jesus i can't wait to hear this mental gymnastics for the ages.

They are both lazy and inconsistent having both once shown some ability, and both are prone to purple patches before reverting to dogshit. True of rashford and true of sancho long before he joined United.
 
Our formation, style or predicament have little to do with why Eashford has found a bit of form at Villa. He attitude at United in recent years from the outside looked appalling. His lack of work-rate was well beyond questionable.

He knows he can’t get away with that at Villa (fresh start and all that). So we should be rejoicing that he is increasing the chance of permanent sale, not wishing him back!

I also feel that his form and fan sentiment made him an easy target for Ineos who clearly want to tear up the wage structure, starting with its biggest hitters! Amorim probably scored some points with Ineos with his preference to manage eager, down to Earth footballers rather than spoilt, overpaid prima-donnas. In their eyes, this playbook will hopefully build a sustainable team at a far lower cost, they probably just didn’t expect the “bad” to be this bad before it gets better.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
I’m really not seeing this alleged dramatic improvement. Did his usual ruining multiple great situations by dribbling up blind alleys with his head down and a classic Rashford moment in injury time when Villa had a 3v3 break which quickly became a 2v3 when he decided he couldn’t be arsed running quickly.

Even at his worst at United he was capable of one or two good moments in a game. He’s keeping that up and he’s surrounded by much better attacking players which are adding a gloss to his contribution. He’s not an awful player and he could do well for them but he’s done nothing for Villa that makes him look like someone who was worthy of what he was earning at United. This is a footballer who was amongst the very highest earners in Europe. He currently looks like an average to moderately good PL winger. One of at least a dozen of a similar level.
Click to expand...

Thank you. Dribbled into defenders and out of the pitch a couple of time. Nothing unusual.

He had 2 assists which is a good contribution, but this means nothing unless he can consistently do it over and over again.

The issue is that fans react to a single performance as if it’s a drastic change. The fact that he was regularly lazy for us means that this is him, nothing more. Any additional effort at villa may merely be a reaction to try to prove amorim wrong.

Nonetheless, i hope he does well enough for us to be able to sell him for a reasonable sum of money in the summer.
 
AaronRedDevil said:
Because we can't attack and when we lose the ball, we have to wait another 20 mins to make another decent attack. Utd strikers don't get any chance and just one chance is all each player gets. So that just frustrates our strikers. Yet other teams always make several attacks each player and that makes them more confident.
Click to expand...
...and people actively hated him, on social media and in person. People downplay this but it matters....
 
AaronRedDevil said:
Because we can't attack and when we lose the ball, we have to wait another 20 mins to make another decent attack. Utd strikers don't get any chance and just one chance is all each player gets. So that just frustrates our strikers. Yet other teams always make several attacks each player and that makes them more confident.
Click to expand...

We have two fewer shots than AV this season.
 
FrankWhite said:
He's on a 4 month audition for a move better than what he's currently got.
Click to expand...

This is it, he was humbled to have ended up at Villa, was expecting huge teams to be clamouring for him in January.

Hopefully his next team weight his contract heavily on performances or he'll be a disaster.

Adebayor mk2.
 
Regardless, I think all would agree, we need to replace him. If next season come and the replacement isn't top tier then INEOS are clowns.

I was watching the season review for 06-07.... Watching Ronaldo, Rooney, Saha and others shooting from outside the box with real quality... was a reminder of how far we have dropped off. Who is providing that in this team? Outside of Bruno I dont know, Garnacho is wayward, Anthony and Rashford are on their way, as is Sancho. Zirkzee and Hoijlund are not there..... We had enormous threat, teams couldn't just sit in a low block and nullify us the way they do now. Rashford's time at United is over but we need a replacement because on form he is a level above most of what we have.
 
Every good performance means we're closer to getting good money for him in 3/4 months. Same as with Antony.
 
C'est Moi Cantona said:
£40 million 'pure profit', and £300 k off the wage bill will be massive for the rebuild in the summer.

Youu just hope Villa don't mess aboout and trigger it early in the summer window.
Click to expand...
Watch him do really really well, Barca seduce him with the promise of a dream move, his Villa loan/clause expires as Rashford thinks he can do better than Villa and wants the Barca move, Barca realise they would need to sell the name of their club to Netflix to afford him, they pull out, he goes on loan to Dortmund on final day of the window and we're paying 50% of his wages still.
 
Woziak said:
I reckon Villa might be the last English team left in the CL and get knocked out by Madrid In SF?
Click to expand...
Villa could get knocked out by Club Brugge. If they win that, you'd imagine they'll go out in the quarters to Liverpool or PSG. Either way, they aren't a particularly good side and won't be reaching the final, or most likely the semi's.
 
I guess I am in the minority that thinks he isn't even being impressive for Villa. I thought he was awful against Liverpool. That said, he would still probably be our biggest threat if he had stayed and was playing.
 
united for life said:
Nonetheless, i hope he does well enough for us to be able to sell him for a reasonable sum of money in the summer.
Click to expand...

This is all we need to be watching with the player.

I don't want him back at United. I want him sold for good money so I hope he does well or appears to do well.
It's for our agenda not his.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.