Marcus Rashford: Manchester United forward '100% committed' to England

Marcus Rashford enjoyed his astir prolific play astatine Manchester United successful 2022-23

Manchester United 's Marcus Rashford says helium is "100% committed" to England after helium faced criticism for a travel to New York pursuing his withdrawal from planetary work successful March.

At the time, England manager Gareth Southgate defended the forward's determination to spell to the United States.

"I request clip to power disconnected and recover," Rashford said.

"I took a abbreviated trip, 4 days, past went backmost to bash rehab and conscionable effort and get acceptable arsenic soon arsenic possible.

"With injuries, you can't foretell erstwhile they're going to happen. Occasionally you bash get interaction injuries. I cognize that I'm committed to it [England] 100%.

"People are going to accidental what they're going to say. It doesn't truly fuss me."

Rashford is present preparing for England's adjacent 2 Euro 2024 qualifiers, against Malta successful Valletta connected Friday and North Macedonia astatine Old Trafford the pursuing Monday.

The striker scored 30 goals crossed each competitions for United during the play conscionable completed.

His past crippled of the run was successful the FA Cup last connected 3 June, erstwhile United mislaid 2-1 to a Manchester City broadside who went connected to implicit the Treble.

"It's not bully but astatine the aforesaid clip it's football," added Rashford, whose United broadside finished 3rd and won the EFL Cup past season.

"The champion squad that is consistently playing the champion shot is going to triumph the astir trophies. They managed to triumph 3 this twelvemonth - good done to them.

"We conscionable determination on. It's up to them to support it up and up to the remainder of america to drawback up."

City's Phil Foden, Jack Grealish, Kalvin Phillips, John Stones and Kyle Walker joined up with the England squad connected Tuesday.

Asked what helium volition accidental to the City contingent astatine the England camp, Rashford replied: "Just congratulations, it's football. The astir accordant teams are going to triumph trophies. It's thing new. Look astatine Barcelona and Madrid, they're ever going to triumph trophies."

He added that England players winning trophies was "a monolithic positive" and would lone assistance the squad "get implicit the enactment successful a large tournament".

England's lucifer successful Malta connected Friday extends a play that began for Rashford connected 7 August, much than 10 months ago.

The forward, who played 56 times for his nine successful a play which besides included a World Cup successful November and December, described the existent calendar arsenic "mad".

"The players are going to propulsion ourselves to the implicit limits," helium said.

"We request to beryllium fixed much clip to retrieve betwixt definite games and astatine antithetic stages of the season.

"That's my sentiment but I don't deliberation it's down to the players. We shouldn't person to enactment ourselves successful a presumption to talk retired astir thing that we're not successful power of oregon we're not going to marque the last determination on."