What happens now with Man Utd and Rashford?

Marcus Rashford is 1 of the astir well-known players successful the Premier League.

He has made 426 appearances for Manchester United and is 12th connected the club's all-time scoring database with 138 goals.

The 27-year-old has won some the FA Cup and EFL Cup twice. He has besides won the Europa League. He has 60 England caps.

Off the pitch, helium was awarded an MBE successful 2021 for his enactment astir kid poverty.

But present his vocation is nether a unreality amid a content that his days astatine United are numbered aft helium was dropped for the Manchester derby.

On 18 July 2023 United confirmed Rashford had signed a caller declaration to 30 June 2028. It marked the extremity of a saga arsenic Rashford's erstwhile woody was owed to expire successful 12 months and helium had already been linked with a fig of large European clubs.

The determination made sense. Rashford had conscionable scored a career-best 30 home goals during the 2022-23 play and was inactive lone 25.

After 3 games without a goal, helium scored the opener successful what turned retired to beryllium a 3-1 decision astatine Arsenal connected 3 September.

He wasn't to people for different 13 games arsenic United's descent nether Erik 10 Hag began.

In January Rashford was axed for an FA Cup travel to Newport County aft missing grooming done unwellness aft spending longer than planned connected what had initially been an authorised travel to Belfast, getting pictured entering a nightclub wherever helium drank tequila.

Although Rashford scored the archetypal extremity of Ruben Amorim's reign aft lone 81 seconds astatine Ipswich connected 24 November, the caller United caput manager admitted cardinal striker was not the 27-year-old's champion position. Rashford started 3 and was a substitute for 3 of Amorim's archetypal six games successful charge, though.

But, crucially, helium was connected the seat for the midweek Premier League travel to Arsenal and the location crippled that followed against Nottingham Forest connected 7 December. He started successful the Europa League against Vitoria Plzen connected 12 December but was replaced aft 56 minutes with United 1-0 down. They went connected to triumph 2-1.

He was past dropped on with Alejandro Garnacho for the Manchester derby. After the game, Amorim explained why: "The show successful training, the mode you eat, the mode you propulsion your team-mates - everything is important astatine the opening of something. When radical successful your nine are losing their jobs, we person to enactment the standards truly high."

At immoderate point, each manager has to marque large calls. Like it oregon not, the result of them ends up being however they are defined.

Sir Alex Ferguson's clip astatine United is littered with large decisions – from axing Paul McGrath and Norman Whiteside but keeping Bryan Robson close astatine the commencement of his reign, to letting Paul Pogba permission astatine the end.

Amorim knew precisely what the fallout would beryllium from his determination to permission Rashford out.

If United had mislaid astatine Manchester City, questions would person been asked astir the contented of having lone Joshua Zirkzee connected the seat arsenic an attacking player. But they didn't. Thanks to Amad Diallo, they won.

"Today we proved we tin permission anyone retired and win," said Amorim afterwards. That is simply a large instrumentality to bushed his players with.

Rashford is simply a realist. He volition cognize the penning is connected the partition for him. It is just to accidental for the past 18 months – oregon for each but the 2022-23 play since November 2021 fixed helium scored lone doubly successful his past 28 appearances of the run successful which Ralf Rangnick ended successful complaint – helium has been mode beneath the standards helium is susceptible of.

He has been repeatedly criticised for his enactment ethic – and by immoderate for his off-field antics, which included a travel to the United States during the November planetary break.

It is argued Rashford is being unfairly singled out. But that broadside of his beingness volition not change. He has to present – and excessively often, helium hasn't.

Rashford is 1 of United's highest earners, with a basal wage successful excess of £300,000 a week. Only a tiny fig of clubs tin spend that wage and, for a assortment of reasons, immoderate of them are not successful the market.

In Spain, Barcelona's fiscal issues are good known. Real Madrid are already struggling to find the close attacking operation from Kylian Mbappe, Vinicius Jr and Jude Bellingham.

Atletico paid immense wealth to Manchester City for Julian Alvarez conscionable earlier the summertime transportation deadline.

Of England's apical clubs, Manchester City and Liverpool look a spot of a stretch, adjacent with City successful specified mediocre form. Arsenal request a cardinal striker – and Rashford doesn't similar playing there. Chelsea look to person spent enough. Tottenham are inconsistent but they are hardly apt to driblet skipper Son Heung-min, who plays connected the left.

Paris St-Germain person often been mentioned arsenic a imaginable destination connected a fig of occasions down the years, but the French giants person ever distanced themselves from specified talk.

United person antecedently been linked with Randal Kolo Muani. However, adjacent a swap woody is questionable fixed Rasmus Hojlund seems to beryllium impressing arsenic Amorim's archetypal prime successful the pb attacking role.

The Saudi Pro League could marque a immense connection by signing specified an instantly recognisable fig from the Premier League aged lone 27. However, the feeling is Rashford is not sold connected that arsenic a plan.

A indebtedness involving immoderate benignant of wage publication seems possible. But United person repeatedly spoken of their choky nett and sustainability rules (PSR) situation, arsenic good arsenic their committedness to abide by the rules, truthful paying to fto a precocious earner play for idiosyncratic other would beryllium counter-productive.

Anyone aged capable to retrieve the Wayne Rooney saga from October 2010, erstwhile helium slapped successful a transportation request, was publically lambasted by Ferguson and past signed a caller contract, each wrong little than a week, volition cognize thing is intolerable astatine United.

There are 3 main points.

Firstly, tin Rashford conscionable Amorim's demands? That, really, should beryllium the casual spot - surely the effort should beryllium a non-negotiable. I americium talking astir the effort Amorim is demanding, not what societal media observers think.

Secondly, tin helium acceptable the system? This is simply a spot much tricky. Rashford likes to play wide and chopped in. But determination is nary slot for that successful Amorim's system.

The manager has already said Rashford is not ideally suited to an orthodox fig 9 role, which leaves either helping backmost (unlikely) oregon wrong forward.

The second would necessitate a batch of work, which United bash not person with their existent schedule. But if Hojlund is holding the shot up, utilizing Rashford's gait to tally beyond is simply a viable alternative.

If Amorim wants his squad to predominate possession, it is little valuable, particularly if they are moving into a higher country of the transportation connected a much accordant basis.

The 3rd enactment is accepting being utilized arsenic an interaction substitute. As Rashford approaches the highest constituent of his career, going down that way is hard to spot happening.