Difference is that when Mount plays you can't question his commitment, work rate, and tactical intelligence. Rashford has not worked hard out of possession for years, across a number of different managers. Mount's issues and shortcomings at United have virtually nothing in common with Rashford's own struggles over the same period of time.
When you won't participate in the less glamorous parts of the game then you damn sure better deliver end product and he has been atrocious in that capacity for the better part of 2 calendar years at this point.
Personal abuse and targeted hate campaigns are awful, but they're also inevitable for an underperforming high earner at a major club like Manchester United who constantly looks like he's sulking and is visibly not working hard.
Not every player is instructed to be an energy bunny, that's the type of player mount is. Not every player is going to run their lungs out like Ji Sung Park. And I highly doubt with all that running around Mount does
if he will ever reach 138 goals for this club if he stays for the same period of time as Rashford
Besides that I've seen rashford track back numerous times under Amorim. There was a game when he came on as sub in europe, and apparently didn't put the work in, fine. Ive seen garnacho throw strops when not starting and Ronaldo. Under Ten Hag, I think he wanted Rashford to be high up to play and play off the shoulder of the defender because Ten hag wanted the fast transition football, and was aware Rashford was at his best in that system dropping off the defenders shoulder. Mbappe had that role at PSG, so did Neymar, you will never see them track back due to instructions because they are not energy bunny players they'd be instructed to conserve their energy for counter attack transitions to make use of their explosive pace.
And I'm in no way comparing rashford's ability to those players, just explaining to you every player has a different type of individual instructions depending on the manager and style of player. Amorim, is clearly not happy with Rashford's performances hence he's been dropped and now rashford looks to have lost his explosive pace so probably he has little use an amorim system which depends on all players being workhorses, because maybe maybe he might just not be physically and mentally up to task. Which is not unusual and is not a crime from the player that deserves the whole entire nation to believe he's the sole reason as to why Man unite have been shite for the last 10 years.
We don't even know if injuries have affected him, since he was playing through injuries under Ole, with double stress facture the same with Martial, who's body eventually broke down and became injury prone player. He was another supposedly toxic ''lazy;'' player who needed ridding and then everything would be sunshine and roses once he was gone.
Your argument falls apart anyway because when Maguire was being targeted he was running his socks off and outside of the Greece incident, he was a model professional, didn't turn up late, there was an agenda against him because one social media fan channel set a narrative that British players were being protected and so the huge backlash set in motion because he was an easy target. Maguire's crime was not running, it was simply just making calamity mistakes and suffered from confidence issues and playing under a rookie manager who was underqualified for the job and it still didn't protect him from harassment, bullying and even death threats.
Abuse is not inevitable because it's clearly targeted towards easy targets and quite frankly It's not innocently toxic, it's dangerous for the players and their families who witness all this and have to deal with this in their private lives.. You would think this club is a military base where a individuals performance is dependant on someone's life being saved or killed. It's a sport.
I've seen Luka Shaw multiple times not bother to bust a gut to track his runner and he's an actual defender. I've seen shaw be reported to be overweight to pre season, even Mourinho questioned his mentality. Last season he declared himself not fit for united, then suddenly became available for England duty for the euros, some could say putting the national team ahead of man utd. I've yet to see various media outlets run a campaign saying he needs to be sold, even though he's also on obscene wages but if all the scapegoats left who were easy targets, his head will be on the line next.
I stopped caring about players salaries, when players started getting 100k a week. I remember the days when 50k a week was considered obscene, Personally I don't believe none of these footballers deserve those kind of sums, but through brands, marketing, social media, every one is getting big pay days and not just in Football.
i can see the other side oft he coin with the frustration from our supporters of catching on to the many years of Rashford's inconsistencies not being called out and it's a release for some fans who feel vindicated, who felt his goal tally was covering up his poor overall performances from the days of Ole. But the crap about his body language, dress sense, what he drives, where he goes on holiday in his free time, is agenda driven hatred and jealously not to mention the bold racism he's faced from our very own fanbase.
The same scrutiny happened with Pogba, Martial, they would run and be the clubs talisman bailing us out but in brief periods of the game you'd see them jogging or have bad games where nothing is working and it would get clipped up everywhere to drive a narrative that they were lazy players who didn't care about the club and then we heard stories about they're lifestyle, body language, jewellery, relatives, agents, and all kinds of bs to run a hate campaign .
