Marcus Rashford’s ill-advised journey to Northern Eire, which noticed him go on a ’12-hour tequila bender’, has raised questions on his inside circle.
Rashford is thought to maintain it significantly small, solely trusting a small variety of folks when he’s away from Manchester United.
However a number of disciplinary points at Previous Trafford since Erik ten Hag arrived as supervisor in 2022 is trigger for concern, with Rashford showing out of types and as if he’s carrying the burden of the world on his shoulders this season.
The England star has bought nowhere close to the 30-goal return he managed final season and is now on the centre of a row over lacking coaching after a boozy night out hours before over in Belfast.
Mail Sport takes a better take a look at the people which might be making an attempt to maintain Rashford on the straight and slim…
Marcus Rashford’s inside circle consists of finest pal Jamie Hendley (far left) and brothers Dane (second from proper) and Dwaine (far proper) who’ve acted as his agent in recent times
Rashford is beneath the microscope following a number of disciplinary issues at Man United
Dwaine Maynard
His older brother Dwaine is among the most influential figures in Rashford’s life.
Maynard, who runs the DN Might Sports activities Administration which oversees upcoming younger athletes in varied sports activities, focuses on negotiating the perfect contracts for shoppers, together with his youthful brother high of that listing.
He performed a vital function in serving to Rashford ink a £315,000-a-week deal final summer season, which is able to internet him £78million if he sees it out till 2028 at Previous Trafford.
Maynard was the one tasked with having a gathering with Paris Saint-Germain and it’s noticeable that Rashford trusts his enterprise pursuits implicitly with Maynard.
On the official web site of DN Might Sports activities Administration, Maynard, who has two younger youngsters, is listed because the managing director and has talked about the actual fact he’s a FA Registered Middleman.
Together with Dane Rashford, the brothers act as Marcus’s brokers, though that’s in some jeopardy after they failed the FA’s new examination in the summertime.
Rashford pictured signing his profitable new £315,000-a-week deal alongside brother Dwaine
Dane Rashford
His different older brother Dane is listed as co-founder of the DN Might Sports activities Administration.
Whereas Dwaine was crucial to his new deal, Dane was important in serving to Rashford safe his earlier £250k-a-week contract in 2019.
Rashford has two brothers and three sisters – Tamara, Chantelle and Claire – however it’s his brothers which have helped navigate his contracts and renewals at United.
Dane hit the headlines after he allegedly attacked his girlfriend after discovering messages from an unnamed Premier League star in Miami earlier this yr earlier than charges brought in the US were eventually ‘dismissed’.
He had pleaded not responsible to the costs of battery following the incident in Miami on the Kimpton Angler’s Lodge.
The information of the arrest broke minutes after Man United’s 4-3 loss to Copenhagen within the Champions League, during which Rashford was despatched off within the first half of motion.
The incident was later described as a ‘misunderstanding’, with a supply telling the Telegraph that Dane didn’t even seem in court docket and has now had the costs dismissed.
Dane Rashford helped his youthful brother safe a beforehand profitable contact again in 2019
Jamie Hendley
Probably the most necessary items to Rashford’s circle.
The 26-year-old traces all the best way again to breakfast membership in Button Lane Major college, the place Rashford would go as his mom labored a number of jobs as a single mum to supply for her household.
Hendley lately arrange a property administration firm referred to as Purposed Properties Ltd, which is claimed to be launching within the close to future.
As a detailed confidant for Rashford, Hendley is repeatedly stored shut by and has been proper by his aspect alongside the best way, making journeys to Miami and Mykonos, in addition to partying alongside Rashford and Chris Brown in Ibiza.
He has turn out to be shut with Jesse Lingard, in addition to Rashford’s brothers, and is somebody that Rashford trusts implicitly, like a 3rd brother.
Hendley (proper) has recognized Rashford (left) since their time at Button Lane Major college
They’ve been inseperable ever since and the Man United star considers Hendley a ‘brother’
Hendley is repeatedly stored shut by and has been proper by his aspect all through Rashford’s profession
Ashley Leather-based
One other of Rashford’s lifelong pals that goes again to his college days.
Whereas it seems that Rashford doesn’t observe Leather-based, somebody he has termed a ‘superb footballer’ at non-league stage, on Instagram, he’s a mainstay in Rashford’s tightknit circle.
He make clear the significance of each Hendley and Leather-based in an interview with Males’s Well being again in 2021, explaining their important function in conserving him out of hassle of their formative teenage years.
‘I used to return dwelling each weekend and go to see all my pals – not simply the shut pals I’ve now, like Jamie [Hendley] and Ashley [Leather], however all my pals collectively. And a few of them had been as much as no good,’ Rashford instructed Males’s Well being.
‘Once I speak about sacrifice, it is also about making selections. That is why I am so near Jamie and Ashley, as a result of in the event that they knew somebody was going off in a path that would put us in a sticky scenario, they’d have me dwelling immediately. Identical to that. We’d get on our bikes and I might be dwelling.
Ashley Leather-based (left) is one other Rashford treats like household after enjoying a key function earlier in life
‘They’ve been like that from the start for me.’
Rashford continued: ‘I see them as household. I do not see my pals as pals. I deal with them as brothers, and they’re the identical with me.
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‘My circle is so small! Aside from my household, it is Jamie and Ashley after which the individuals who work with me football-wise. That is it. It has all the time been small and all the time can be, as a result of I really feel like I work finest in that setting. I belief them.’
Ro-Shaun Williams
Childhood pals having come by the academy at United, having beforehand performed collectively at south Manchester grassroots membership Fletcher Moss Rangers, Williams is like ‘household’ to Rashford.
The pair have a superb relationship and are recognized to repeatedly unwind by enjoying FIFA collectively on PlayStation.
Solely final week did Rashford make the journey over to Northern Eire after Williams had signed for Larne FC.
Requested about his shut relationship with Rashford, Williams instructed the Yorkshire Postearlier this yr: ‘I’ve recognized him since I used to be a child, I performed native soccer with him earlier than we had been at United so I see him as like household, it is the identical as my mum, dad or brother coming to observe me.
‘Marcus watching me is identical as if one in every of my mates who works at Amazon involves a recreation, I might nonetheless need to play properly as a result of somebody’s taken day trip of their day to observe me.’
Ro-Shaun Williams (second from left) is a childhood pal and former Rashford team-mate
Rashford (circled, entrance row) and Williams (circled, again row) pictured in United’s youth workforce
Jamal Branker
Branker is a detailed pal of Jesse Lingard and grew near Rashford over time.
The non-league footballer, who can also be pleasant with Hendley, was final pictured with Lingard in December 2023.
However he was on the centre of an ill-advised video that featured each Lingard and Rashford again in 2019.
Lingard was exhibiting off his resort suite in Miami, which he was sharing with Branker, Rashford and Williams, but it surely took a flip when Branker was seen simulating intercourse with a pillow, which led to criticism.
Rashford referred to as it a ‘mistake’ however didn’t go into additional element.
Jamal Branker is near Jesse Lingard however has grown a detailed pal to Rashford over time
Caroline McAteer
PR guru Caroline McAteer (proper, pictured with John Terry) has been introduced in to assist Rashford together with his press relations
Again in December Rashford added a key piece to his inside circle, which he has stated will all the time stay extremely small.
The appointment of Caroline McAteer, who additionally takes care of Jadon Sancho, Cristiano Ronaldo and Raphael Varane, has not prompted panic at United regardless of how the conditions of Sancho and Ronaldo performed out.
McAteer is extremely revered in her discipline and is well-known within the sports activities world since working with David and Victoria Beckham within the late Nineties.
She was chargeable for managing Beckham’s PR and media after he was despatched off on the 1998 World Cup.
Founder and CEO of The Sports activities PR Firm – which specialises in providing international public relations, sponsorship administration, social media and disaster administration comms – she is an entrusted a part of Rashford’s circle regardless of her current appointment.
She is a large asset to Rashford commercially and can also be adept at disaster communications – which can be key for the United star within the wake of his boozy journey to Northern Eire final week.
Tyrell Malacia
With the departure of Lingard, younger Dutch full-back Malacia has emerged as Rashford’s closest pal at United.
Malacia, 24, has holidayed with Rashford prior to now and been pictured attending his birthday events, main followers to thrill of their ‘bromance’.
The pair hit it off in Malacia’s first season at Previous Trafford and grew nearer after taking a summer season vacation to Los Angeles with another pals.
Since Lingard left Previous Trafford, team-mate Tyrell Malacia (left) has turn out to be his closest pal
The pair sit subsequent to one another within the dressing room and have taken a number of holidays collectively
Again in July the pair, who hyperlink up down the left-hand aspect for United, additionally loved an off season break on a yacht in Ibiza, having already frolicked collectively in New York a month prior.
‘We give one another power, we converse lots with one another and, within the dressing room, we sit subsequent to one another,” Malacia beforehand instructed MUTV of his friendship with Rashford.
‘Now we have a very good connection, that’s necessary and you may see it on the pitch.’
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