Every previous Manchester United manager had issues with Marcus Rashford as he eyes exit
12/29/2024 11:59 AM
Marcus Rashford has had issues with every previous Manchester United manager he’s played under.
That’s according to The Athletic writer Andy Mitten, who also claims that fans do not celebrate the academy graduate like they used to.
Rashford has missed United’s last three Premier League matches as head coach Ruben Amorim and is seemingly keen to leave the club.
He revealed in an interview with Henry Winter that he’s ‘ready for a new challenge’ and talkSPORT understands United are open to offers for the player.
Some fans expressed their frustrations with the 27-year-old during United’s Carabao Cup defeat to Tottenham, unveiling a banner that read: “Excuses. Ta ra, Marcus”.
Although Amorim has not definitively said Rashford won’t return to the team, there are serious questions over his future involvement.
Amid the continuous noise, Mitten spoke to talkSPORT and offered insight into the experience of previous managers, including Jose Mourinho and Erik ten Hag, with him.
“I do think that the manager has had a big say here,” Mitten said on Kick Off. “I think he is doing it his way and he’s a smiling assassin, he’s a disciplinarian.
“And, every previous manager has had issues with Marcus Rashford. I’ve spoken to them, I know them, they’ve told me in confidence going back years and years and years.
“And then, Marcus confounds those opinions because he has a really good season and from his perspective, and he does have a perspective here, there’s not a lot of support for him, I’ve got to say, among Manchester United fans.
“We played at Wolves a couple of days ago, thoroughly miserable there, but if I go back to Wolves at the start of February [last season], I was outside that away end, I couldn’t find a single Manchester United fan who wanted him to stay.
“When he scored after three or four minutes, those very same fans were singing Marcus Rashford’s name, so that is the environment that you’re in, and football fans are like that, they change their tune very quickly.
“But Marcus Rashford is not celebrated by United fans as he was, his stock is clearly very, very low. I don’t think he’s had a disastrous start to the season, he was worse last season, but clearly he’s nowhere near the levels that he would have hoped for.
“Now, if you’ve got Real Madrid or Paris Saint-Germain or Barcelona lining up going, ‘We’d love to take him’… But the reality, the economics of it, they just do not add up.
“I don’t know what the outcome is going to be, he signed a huge contract, and a lot of them have signed huge contracts, and this makes fans uncomfortable.”
Rashford has played under Louis van Gaal, Mourinho, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Ten Hag and Amorim since making his United debut in 2016.
He has also worked with Michael Carrick, Ralf Rangnick and Ruud van Nistelrooy, although the trio were only in caretaker or interim roles.
The 60-cap England international has scored seven goals in 24 appearances this season, one of which was Amorim’s first in charge.
However it remains to be seen when Rashford, who has featured 426 times in total for United, will take to the pitch again.
Amorim will once again decide on this on Monday night when they face Newcastle at home in the Premier League, live on talkSPORT.
