Marcus Rashford cannot live on past achievements at Manchester United, Gordon Strachan has said. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
Stressing that Rashford must become a now player for MUFC, Gordon stated that Marcus must challenge himself to provide much-needed assistance for talismanic club captain Bruno Fernandes.
Strachan added that for the wage the England forward is currently on, he needs to show his quality every week.
His words, “It doesn’t surprise me. No, no. Because I think it’s all a bit… Signing players and having players is all a bit immediate.
You can’t be signing players on what they did two years ago. It’s impossible to do that. I think Marcus Rashford with the wages and things like that, when you’re paying that type of wage, you can’t always guarantee success. That player’s got to be successful.
Also, as a manager, I think when you take Marcus Rashford along, because he’s at Manchester United, everything is about Marcus Rashford. I always ask, why is he not playing? What is he not there? This has happened.
If you go to Barcelona, and it’s not a Barcelona team of years ago, with any Xavi and Messi. It’s a Barcelona side that’s a good Barcelona. He’s not got a game there. He’s basically been a sub for the last two years.You really want that in your team?
Whatever it is he gets, X amount of money, I can see why a lot of people wouldn’t have bought that. It takes up too much time. It could be the same for Michael Carrick. If he doesn’t play him, why is he not getting a game? Is it because of this? He’s a guy that gets a lot of media attention.
There’s a lot of media attention to what he was as a player three years ago. That’s up to Marcus Rashford to sort that out and deal with it himself. And to make himself a player of now, rather than two or three years ago. You have to be a now player.
Even the signings coming in on deadline day, I watched an under-19 game with Dundee, so I’ve come back in, I’m watching players come in and sign for 45, 60 million and I’ve never heard of these players. But they’re players of the now. People want action now.
So that’s probably why Marcus… There’s a talent there. There’s absolutely a talent there. You can’t be a consistent talent if you’ve got that game. You can’t be in the game all the time. His job is to score goals and make goals.
I think Bruno Fernandes would get up in the morning and go to the game and think, ‘I hope somebody else scores more goals and makes goals rather than me because it’s me all the time’.
And that’s where Marcus Rashford and people like that have to say, ‘right, we’ve let this guy do everything, I want to do something now’.
I don’t know if those days are beyond him, of ‘I want to be the best player on the pitch and I want to do this’ and there’s a kind of vibe from him. I don’t know if that vibe’s there anymore. I hope I’m wrong. I hope the guy does really well because he seems like a decent fella.”
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