This guy is 27 and he should be the one that the younger and lesser-experienced players are looking up to. He's a very senior member of the squad and should be the leader. He should be one of the players that we think of when we discuss who should be the captain of this club. If he's not doing that now after a decade's worth of chances and opportunities, and numerous managers, coaches, and other players to learn from, then he's never going to do it. He's had enough time. I've made my peace with it and think it's the right decision for everyone (especially us) for him to go. He's been Peter Pan-ing for far too long. We need more men at the club.
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- Appearances
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- Goals
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- Assists
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- Yellow cards
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Yeah sorry it was actually in response to one of your posts but someone got in there before me. That’ll teach meYou should have just quoted me
He has officially checked out.
Haha it's ok. I've posted a fair few on here today. I'm going to chill now.
Must be a foreign fan to think that matches against City and Liverpool, even Arsenal and Chelsea to some respect dont mean anything
Marcus Rashford back in the day of saf would of just been a squad player for a few years then moved on.
We spoiled this kid. Made him into the soft boy he is today. That was the style post saf. Hence players like pogba, lingard, rashford, jones, martial..rewarded without merit. Even rooney at the end. Saf set it up perfectly for us to ditch him in 2013. How many more years did he stay when he should of been moved on?
Let's face it. The glazers are the worst when it comes to being owners. Their motto was let saf do it. And he could.
But when he left, the vacuum was to much. It really showed how much control and power he had at United. Let's face it, been a disaster ever since he left.
And this notion that he should be responsible or was responsible to choose his replacement just shows the complete incompetence of the glazers.
In what world or what organization does a manger choose his successor? That's crazy!
If you told someone in 2012, that saf and gill would leave and we are going to promote Woodward as a replacement for Gill and moyes as a replacement for saf you would of thought that were bat shit crazy. Seriously you can't make this shit up cause no one would believe you.
Woodward was a disaster for this club. Forstering this mentality. Weak.
We spoiled this kid. Made him into the soft boy he is today. That was the style post saf. Hence players like pogba, lingard, rashford, jones, martial..rewarded without merit. Even rooney at the end. Saf set it up perfectly for us to ditch him in 2013. How many more years did he stay when he should of been moved on?
Let's face it. The glazers are the worst when it comes to being owners. Their motto was let saf do it. And he could.
But when he left, the vacuum was to much. It really showed how much control and power he had at United. Let's face it, been a disaster ever since he left.
And this notion that he should be responsible or was responsible to choose his replacement just shows the complete incompetence of the glazers.
In what world or what organization does a manger choose his successor? That's crazy!
If you told someone in 2012, that saf and gill would leave and we are going to promote Woodward as a replacement for Gill and moyes as a replacement for saf you would of thought that were bat shit crazy. Seriously you can't make this shit up cause no one would believe you.
Woodward was a disaster for this club. Forstering this mentality. Weak.
George Best was let go from the club at the age of 27, from what I understand because his presence in the squad had come to be seen as more problematic than beneficial. We didn't do much better immediately after he left, sure, but neither did Best show a level after he left which suggested the club made a bad decision in getting rid of him. I see Rashford's situation as analogous with the obvious point that Rashford is no George Best. United and Rashford both need a new start.
I don't disagree, Pogba was the more talented player. Sadly they share several similarities that led/are leading to the end of their OT careers. I compared Rashford to the class of 92 because they were mostly local lads whose journeys with united began at a much earlier age than the likes of Garnacho and Pogba for instance. Pogba came into his own at Juventus while the others became mainstays at the club after first team promotion, fully developed by the club. My major qualm is with what I see as revisionism when it comes to Rashfords contributions at the club. I know he's not going to get a good sending off, even though I wish the supporters will at the least just wish him well and move on without unnecessary and over the top bitterness.
I think O'Shea, Brown and Fletcher would've struggled in this United squad and Rashford would've starred in a Fergie squad. Don't you think Fergie would've got a prolonged tune out of Rashford?
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Must be a foreign fan to think that matches against City and Liverpool, even Arsenal and Chelsea to some respect dont mean anything
They’re the same as any premier league player scoring against their own teams rivals, we haven’t been involved in a title race for over 10 years now, they’re hardly title deciding goals,
He’s scored a few goals on the way to clinching 4th, irreplaceable, labelling them “top 6” goals or whatever other nonsense you come up with doesn’t make them the be all and end all, they’re all games that are worth 3 points, the majority of the 38 he’s useless in
I wouldn’t be so sure but that’s pure speculation. He almost certainly would’ve had a very different career though.
I don’t think he had enough talent (and that’s not revisionism, I’ve always thought so even though there were a couple of moments during his career — right before the back injury and during the last purple patch — where I thought that I may be wrong) to be the main star for a Fergie team and his skill set is a bit limited to be a great fit for a dominant team. Young Rashford would’ve been an amazing sub for a Fergie team but that’s not a role that most would be happy to spend their entire career at. Fergie probably would’ve molded him into a very different, more all-rounded and team-oriented player… or, very likely, would’ve gotten rid of him fairly early, he was quite ruthless in that regard.
So yeah, it’s possible but it’s far from a given thing. If I was a betting man, knowing what we know about Rashford now, I wouldn’t bet on his success for Fergie… but then all of his negative attributes, especially mental ones, from the non-existing work rate to over accentuated stardom, may never have developed in a way that they did in our reality. But Fergie wasn’t a panacea and he cut ties with such players like that very early once he saw a potential issue. Young Rashford didn’t seem to have had these issues (technical limitations aside), at least not publicly.
He’s loving all this. Probably high fiving Lingard and Sancho during late night gaming sessions.
It’s hilarious that posters are arguing with you that Rashford definitely wouldn’t have remained more grounded under Fergie. Just completely disregarding our best ever manager’s biggest quality, I.e., man management.