If villa have the opportunity to buy Asensio in the summer, are they really picking rashford over him? Let’s hope they find a spare £90m down the back of the sofa to buy both and somehow pay both their wages.
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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 24
- Goals
- 7
- Assists
- 3
- Yellow cards
- 3
It's so nice to see him playing with a smile on his face again. Reminds me of how happy my ex looks on her social media posts
Feels like this should be in Lindelof's thread. First or second sentence
He never does that pass that got him the assist for us. He would’ve done for glory and hit the keeper.
Again, happy he got an assist that I hope helps him offloaded permanently
Again, happy he got an assist that I hope helps him offloaded permanently
If they somehow fluked the CL trophy that would be £90m+ easily.
Nobody says he's shit. It was his attitude which was shit.
Familiarity breeds contempt. He was always going to have a better attitude going somewhere else.
Here he was the golden boy who had been coming to Carrington since he was like seven years old and felt he knew it all.
Going somewhere else he needed to buckle down and prove himself to the manager and the players.
Still don't see them paying the option at the end of the season.
100% this. Same goes for most of our players still at the club.
There's just something really off. They're not a team, just a group of players.
The price being quoted for Asensio on a permanent deal to Villa is circa £15million.
are you blind? many do... all the time
Hope the Villa fans who have been praising him saying he is quality make it known to their board to make the deal permanent in the summer because from what I've seen seems like they would be more inclined to make Asensio permanent. Basically, been him getting in good positions with good shots more than Rashford with quality passes which all of his assists have been to Asensio. But also he's approaching 500 minutes and 0 goals. Not sure if it's Emery telling him to play a more supporting role and pass more t but if it is just shows how malcontent and lazy he got here.
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Keep going Marcus. Help us get some serious money in the summer.
*I'm being facetious, I'm actually gutted it hasn't really worked out with him at United but it was obvious there needed to be a break for himself and the club.
*I'm being facetious, I'm actually gutted it hasn't really worked out with him at United but it was obvious there needed to be a break for himself and the club.
Unfortunately he isn’t what he’s made out to be. He’s lost that yard of pace whether due to injury or age. Time and time again he struggles to get past the player, he’s also a liability with his tracking back.
Now that’s not me saying he isn’t a useful player, he still has a powerful shot and can be a decent player for a suitable price. He needs to sort his head out but I fear it’s too late.
He'll be 6 months away from turning 30 in the summer with a year left on his deal - I doubt he'd cost them more than £15-20m.
I could also see United negotiating on the Rashford option and accepting £30-35m if Villa wanted him permanently - though I think the main sticking point here will be whether Rashford himself would be prepared to swallow his pride (fix his ego) and join them.
EDIT: Having re-read your comment I assume you might be factoring in wages into that £90m estimate which is fair enough - I think both would have to take some sort of pay cut. Probably unlikely either would.
Keep going Marcus, just a few more games to convince them to sign you.
Cannot wait to see the back of him. I wonder how long before he starts giving zero fecks at Villa.
Cannot wait to see the back of him. I wonder how long before he starts giving zero fecks at Villa.
Not sure Rashford will be too keen on making the move permanent but who knows! Seems like he wants to head overseas (Barca sounded interested).
While still playing for us this season Rashford put a lot of great crosses into the box, but our forwards were just too bad to convert these absolute sitters. Rashford didn't score goals at that time and was frustrating to watch because he showed low effort in tracking back, but he was still creating more dangerous actions than any of our other forwards except of Amad. But the fans frustration was only concentrated on Rashford.
I'm pretty sure that with another striker in our team Rashford would have nearly the same assists ratio for us as he is now having for Aston Villa.
That this might not be enough for a player of his stature for Manchester United is another discussion. But it's not that he turned into a completely different player now that he's playing for Villa. Now he just has a better functioning team around him and strikers who can convert the chances he creates for them into goals.
Rashford is currently 27 so how how would he be 6 months from turning 30?
I'm talking about Asensio.
He is playing for his Barca future as that is where he wants to go.
Things are going ok at Villa at the moment and he has a maximum of 15 matches left to prove himself.
I hope he continues to do well so we can get a decent fee from him from Barcelona
We all know Rashford has talent but his attitude and inability to track back is the problem and why he wont be able to perform consistently at a massive club.
Things are going ok at Villa at the moment and he has a maximum of 15 matches left to prove himself.
I hope he continues to do well so we can get a decent fee from him from Barcelona
We all know Rashford has talent but his attitude and inability to track back is the problem and why he wont be able to perform consistently at a massive club.
This guy being touted by media outlets for an England recall tells you all you need to know about how strong his PR is.
England’s current left winger has 15GA so far this season. Rashford has 14GA. One of these players spent most of the season playing for a woeful United team and then got ostracised for 2 months.
Rashford is England’s best left winger by a distance (it’s a problem position). If whatever issues he had at United are behind him, it’s a no brainer to return him to the squad.
That's obviously not true
Which is blatantly obvious if you actually read the post
Or alternatively you could judge by what was so blatantly obvious to anyone with eyes over the last 2 years
You’re right: it is dishonest being upset about a player getting a huge new contract and then displaying a palpable lack of effort on the pitch (and taking side trips to Belfast and then calling sick)…
I’ve watched Anthony Gordon a lot over the past year and I don’t think he’s close to Rashford’s technical level.
I’m really not sure who else would even be an option - Grealish isn’t playing at all and Foden isn’t a left winger anyway and out of form. Ramsey is probably next in line and he’s Rashford’s understudy at Villa. I suppose Sancho is another option but no one is seriously suggesting he’s playing well enough?
I don't think many people think he's shit though. I think everyone is aware that when he's on form/in a good place/interested etc. he's a very good footballer
I dont think its clear and also Rashford is doing well but as a sub as well as a starter sometimes. Gordon would start for Villa every week if they swapped places. I do think on current form Rashford is slightly ahead because Gordon's had an average/poor period for the last 4 games after scoring against Arsenal. But overall his season is better than what Rashford is doing
You will need to back the bolded up with some video evidence because I don't recall any of these great crosses/absolute sitters from Rashford that were being missed before he was exiled. I think this is coming from the same place as me when I was younger where my ex girlfriends got prettier by the day in my memory once I had split with them.
Reading this discussion about Rashford vs Gordon or best English LW, made me think how England in general (at least in my lifetime) haven't had a very good LW in a very long time, specially a left footed one. Is John Barnes Englands best left footed attacker in recent(ish) time?
Sorry for going off topic, just got me thinking.
Going back to Barnes as a left winger is 35 years ago, so hard to regard that as recent(ish)! However, yes, we have had no world class left wingers since then. Joe Cole was probably the best and then Rashford more recently, both of whom are right footed.
There were a few at the start of the season. I wouldn’t go as far as saying loads but there were two easy ones missed by Zirkzee against Liverpool I can recall for example.
Yeah, well kinda proved my thinking as well hehe. Wow 35 years ago... feck me times moving quickly haha. I do know about J.Cole off course, was thinking of left footed attackers, haven't been many. M.Etherington is the only other English left footed attacker I can remember atm(which primarily played LW), so the quality from Barnes to him is pretty steep haha.
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Nice to see him stat padding against minnows with the Villa B team. Hopefully teams pay more attention to that than all the times he is on the bench.
Happy to see Rashy doing well. I'll never hate an academy kid doing well elsewhere, especially who was a bright spot on and off the pitch in some dark times in the club's history. For a cocktail of reasons I don't think OT is a place where Rashy can thrive as a player anymore which is a bit sad but it happens. He had a chance to be truly world class with his natural ability but that also didn't happen which is fine. Most players never do put it all together in that way. I truly hope he winds up in Spain or Italy next season and lights it up for a half decade or more before retiring.
Well, Foden is probably a long way ahead of him but obviously doesn’t really play left wing.
Its funny how things go in cycles
It was England's problem position for ages. Loads of players who wanted to play right wing, or in Scholes case CM, used as a left winger. Joe Cole, Treveor Sinclair etc all right footed playing on the left
These days thats the norm, but at that time it was it was accepted that these players were having to play out of position. Now we've got an abundance of left footed players who want to start on the wing, but they all play on the right because the trend is to play inverted and go into the middle
He's incredibly popular with all the young players. Yamal, Nico Williams all on his socials commenting. The Brugge players lining up for his shirt etc
Good to see him doing well - would love for him to get that summer move to Barca
Good to see him doing well - would love for him to get that summer move to Barca
too late for us definitely