One other week, one other drawback for Erik ten Hag and Manchester United and this time it comes with a well-known identify connected.
Marcus Rashford’s obvious disaffection with life at Outdated Trafford has come to the boil after he missed Sunday’s win at Newport following a visit to Belfast.
Rashford, we’re instructed, was unwell over the weekend and due to this fact not match sufficient to journey with Ten Hag and his staff to South Wales.
Nevertheless, after being seen socialising in Belfast on Wednesday night time, it now seems that the 26-year-old was out within the Irish metropolis on Thursday as nicely.
Experiences have since claimed Rashford went on a 12-hour tequila bender within the metropolis on the Thursday. A waitress instructed The Solar that the United star was out ‘consuming all day’ along with his entourage and on arriving again at his lodge at 3am he was so drunk that he ‘handed out’ whereas absolutely dressed.
Marcus Rashford has been labelled as ‘uncontrolled’ after lacking Man United coaching
United boss Erik ten Hag has insisted he’ll ‘cope with’ Rashford’s difficulty internally
It is All Kicking Off host Chris Sutton claimed the ahead has ‘no respect’ for his supervisor
He needed to be helped into his lodge mattress fully-clothed simply earlier than 3am by a waitress who had been invited to affix the group after serving him lunch earlier within the day.
Rashford then flew again to Manchester from Belfast on a non-public jet, touching down at 8am earlier than calling in sick for coaching. Rashford was omitted of the journey to Newport because of this.
United supervisor Ten Hag has not denied that Rashford was out each Wednesday and Thursday night time, and has not taken the chance to refute strategies he has been lied to by his star participant.
Not surprisingly, the matter was a sizzling subject on at the moment’s ‘It is All Kicking Off’ podcast with Mail Sport star columnist and Premier League winner Chris Sutton fast to tear in to Rashford for his alleged lack of self-discipline.
‘Marcus Rashford is sort of a good few Manchester United gamers at this second in time,’ stated Sutton.
‘He thinks he is untouchable. This hasn’t been the primary time the place he is had a misdemeanour. It has been steady. He has no respect for the supervisor and no respect for his teammates. That is the underside line.
‘He is most likely pondering he’s going to outlast Ten Hag anyway however he is uncontrolled so far as I can see.’
United sources instructed the media on the finish of final week that Rashford had grow to be unwell after his night time in Belfast on Wednesday and missed coaching due to that.
It was subsequent to this that pictures of him out in Eire on Thursday additionally emerged. To this point this has not been denied by Rashford or certainly the membership.
Rashford has been within the highlight earlier than for the unsuitable causes since Ten Hag grew to become supervisor at first of the 2022-23 marketing campaign.
Final season he was dropped for a sport at Wolves after being late for a staff assembly whereas final autumn he was spoken to by his supervisor after going out to rejoice his birthday after enjoying in a United facet outplayed and outclassed by Manchester Metropolis in a 3-0 derby defeat.
Talking on IAKO, Mail Sport Soccer Editor Ian Ladyman puzzled whether or not this may increasingly now be a case of ‘three strikes and out’ for Rashford.
‘It is unbelievable,’ replied Sutton.
The England worldwide has already picked up quite a few misdemeanors below ten Hag
Jadon Sancho, equally, fell out with ten Hag after quite a few disciplinary points
‘He’s 26 now, Marcus Rashford. He has such an absence of respect for the supervisor. He is making his emotions fairly clear, is not he?
‘I really feel sorry for Ten Hag, however primarily we all know which means that is going to go. Ten Hag will ultimately find yourself leaving and Rashford will keep on and all of the Manchester United followers additional down the road will love Marcus once more as a result of he is ‘Manchester United by way of and thru’. However his actions have been completely disgraceful.’
Ten Hag has drawn a agency line within the sand within the pursuit of self-discipline and squad concord since being employed from Ajax. He was fast to maneuver Cristiano Ronaldo on and this season stood agency over Jadon Sancho, who has been loaned to Borussia Dortmund after refusing to apologise for taking a swipe at his supervisor on social media.
‘I will say a pair issues right here,’ stated Ladyman on IAKO.
‘I do not know what Rashford’s view is on that is, whether or not he is feeling unfairly maligned or put upon or unfairly criticised. I really do not know.
‘However what I do know is that at Manchester United, there’s a view inside the soccer membership that Rashford will not be having Ten Hag. That’s what they really feel inside that soccer membership. That’s what they really feel. That has been communicated to me.
‘And if that is the case, then it appears Ten Hag clearly is ready to die on this hill of self-discipline. We have seen it with Sancho. Now we have seen it with Rashford. And if he does die on this hill, and if he does depart the soccer membership then respect to him for that.
‘By way of Rashford himself, my concern is that if he had been to depart Manchester United – and he’s contracted till 2028 – I believe there is a hazard that he disappears.
Mail Sport’s Sutton prompt that Rashford will outlast the Manchester United boss
There are fears that Rashford may ‘disappear’ ought to he safe a transfer away from Man United
‘And what I imply by that – hypothetically – is that if he goes to Chelsea, goes to Tottenham, goes to a membership overseas, he may disappear into that void through which fairly a number of former Manchester United gamers have fallen beforehand.
‘There’s fairly a historical past of gamers leaving Manchester United and never occurring to do very nicely, and he could possibly be one other one.’
Ten Hag’s staff really performed fairly nicely in beating Newport 4-2 on Sunday within the fourth spherical of the FA Cup. After the sport, nevertheless, captain Bruno Fernandes criticised a few of his team-mates for being grasping.
‘Everybody wished to attain and get their objective and typically we do not get the perfect choice for the staff,’ stated Fernandes.
This left Sutton perplexed who stated: ‘That is fairly exceptional. The captain of Manchester United popping out publicly and simply telling all people that it is everybody for themselves. That is one thing which he must be saying inside the confines of the dressing room. He is simply letting all people know that issues aren’t proper.’
Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes criticised his team-mates for being grasping
United’s subsequent engagement is at Wolves on Thursday night time within the Premier League. Whether or not Rashford is taken into account for choice will likely be telling however Ladyman thinks new United investor Jim Ratcliffe and incoming chief govt Omar Berrada have a myriad of squad points to deal with going ahead.
‘They’ll have an terrible lot of gamers to interchange earlier than lengthy,’ he stated.
‘I do know we do not know what’s going to occur with Rashford however Sancho is not coming again anytime quickly. Mason Greenwood is not coming again. Jonny Evans is on a brief contract. How lengthy is Casemiro going to stay round? How lengthy is Christian Eriksen going to stay round? What about Raphael Varane?
‘All these gamers – even when solely half of them go – they have to get replaced. They might not all be ok or they might not be performing, however they’re our bodies within the squad. They will must be changed.’
