mctrials23
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Marcus has been playing moderately OK this season, certainly by the standards of last season which was little short of abysmal.
The problem is, whether people like to admit it or not, is that Marcus is not a top quality player. On his day, he's a decent top half Prem player, that's about it. No shame in that, it must be extraordinarily difficult to even reach that standard in the game.
But United will never get back to challenging for the PL if we're hanging onto the idea of Marcus as our "star" attacker. I'm really gobsmacked that people who have presumably watched Marcus's career since his debut need this spelled out to them.
Nah, Rashford on his day is absolute quality. A game changed that terrorises defences. His problem is that those days are very few and far between and when hes not having one of those games hes just a bit crap and doesn't contribute elsewhere. He is, like many top top class players, happy to wander around waiting for his moment and fecking off his team in the process. The only way you can do that however is when you are world class and the team is set up to enable you. You do that for the likes of Mbappe because when he is given those chances he will likely score. You do that for Rashford and he might reward you 1 in 3 games.
He sits in a weird place where he isn't good enough/consistent enough to build a team around but hes not seemingly capable or willing to be a team player.