This post from Marcus Rashford is honestly disgraceful.
The complete lack of acknowledgment towards MANCHESTER UNITED the club that literally built his entire existence in football tells you everything you need to know about the kind of man he is.
United took him in as a child. United developed him. United protected him. United paid him superstar wages through horrific form. United defended him while the football world criticized him. United fans backed him harder than most players ever get backed.
Yet somehow: Barcelona gets mentioned. England gets mentioned. Managers get mentioned. Loan clubs get mentioned.
But Manchester United? Silence....nah!..
That is not an accident. That is deliberate.
And let’s tell the truth people are scared to say: if Rashford has 15 million fans, at least 14 million came because Manchester United fans embraced him as one of their own.
The badge created the superstar. Not the other way around.
What makes this even worse is the victim narrative constantly surrounding him as if the club abandoned him, when in reality the club kept standing by him long after his performances stopped justifying it.
Meanwhile younger players get dropped, respond professionally, fight for their place again and move forward.
But Rashford? Press leaks. Public sulking. Distance from the club. And now this passive-aggressive nonsense.
This is exactly why no player should EVER be placed above the institution.
Manchester United existed before Rashford. Manchester United will exist after Rashford.
The club survives. The badge remains. The fans remain.
Always 🔴
That's another stunning win for Manchester United. What a game, what goals. Away to the league leaders too.
Stop the team bus and treat those players to fish & chips on the Holloway Road.
INEOS kept on a manager they had no faith in, openly canvassing Europe for his successor but then armed him with £200m to spend on players he wanted, and changed the backroom staff before sacking him anyway. They axed a sporting director, whose way of working was well established, because he did not fit in with how they wanted him to work. He warned them about selecting a head coach attached to a fixed style of play, which didn’t suit the squad and how expensive it would be to build a quality 3-4-3. They didn’t listen, insisted they believed wholeheartedly in Ruben Amorim’s approach, but then wouldn’t fully back it in the transfer market and asked him to change the tactical principles that attracted them to him. Some “best in class” decision-making…
Ruben Amorim basically admitted he’s being forced to adapt because he's not being backed with the profiles to make his system work. Either back him or sack him - hanging him out to dry helps no one. Footballing limbo.
This has been totally bottled. The board hire a coach devoted to an idea, don't have the money to invest fully in it, he underperforms & now told to change a year later. Everyone's at fault, not just Amorim.
Club leadership appear out on him, but won't sack him. An experienced DoF is needed. Fans are told to accept it, amidst unsatisfactory performances, inconsistency & a table where 5th becomes 15th very quickly.
Amorim knows the squad better & football better, but not the club - United’s identity is entertaining football - calling fans out while serving this up isn’t it. The club can't move forward amidst what feels like purgatory.
If they won’t back him & he isn't truly changing, just call it. Until then, Manchester United are stuck in.. this.