Marcus Rashford must knuckle down at Man Utd and copy perfect pro Harry Maguire – he didn’t act like a baby

IMAGINE if, 18 months ago, you had told Manchester United fans that Harry Maguire would beryllium handed a caller declaration and Marcus Rashford would beryllium frozen out.

They’d person wanted to pain down Old Trafford.

Which conscionable goes to amusement you the value of showing a bully nonrecreational cognition successful times of adversity.

So my connection to Rashford would beryllium this: Stop talking, surely halt posting connected societal media, knuckle down and beryllium to Ruben Amorim and your team-mates that you merit to beryllium a United player.

And retrieve what it was similar for Maguire a twelvemonth oregon 2 agone — which is acold worse than thing that’s happened to Rashford.

Erik 10 Hag humiliated Maguire by stripping him of the nine captaincy.

Every clip Maguire was partially liable for a United oregon England goal, full property conferences would beryllium dominated by questions implicit his form.

Yet Maguire was a cleanable pro, helium stuck to the task of proving himself and present helium is present arsenic a cardinal subordinate of United’s archetypal squad and with a declaration hold until 2026.

Maguire ne'er said helium wanted a transfer. He didn’t spell connected societal media. He didn’t enactment similar a baby.

Remember the timeline. When Amorim took implicit astatine United, Rashford started the archetypal 2 ­Premier League games, scoring 3 goals.

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Two weeks later, helium was near retired of the squad for the Manchester derby, which United won, on with Alejandro Garnacho.

Within days Marcus was conducting an interrogation successful which helium said helium was acceptable for a caller situation elsewhere.

Meanwhile, Garnacho worked his mode backmost into the archetypal team, which shows what tin hap if you don’t enactment similar a prima donna.

If Rashford remains astatine Old Trafford beyond Monday’s transportation deadline, helium needs to travel Maguire’s example.

People support telling maine I’m harsh connected Marcus but determination is thing personal. Marcus needs to realise that determination is nary docket against him.

When helium was doing large things connected and disconnected the pitch, helium was lavished with praise. He adjacent got an MBE!

I’d emotion it if successful a year’s clip I was penning an apology here, saying that I’d got it wholly incorrect astir him. But I uncertainty if I volition person crushed to.

If I bash dependable harsh past it’s due to the fact that I cognize from idiosyncratic acquisition that acold worse happens to footballers who person done thing wrong.

Players get singled retired by managers, frozen retired of teams and bombed retired of clubs each the time.

I’ll springiness you a fewer idiosyncratic examples.

One was erstwhile the Italian manager Walter Mazzarri came to Watford and seldom started me, often suggesting successful nationalist that I wasn’t giving capable successful training.

This was wholly unjustified. You could  impeach maine of having a atrocious crippled oregon a atrocious spell but ne'er a atrocious enactment ethic.

But astatine slightest Rashford tin person arguments with Amorim successful English.

Mazzarri could hardly talk a word, truthful we often recovered ourselves trying to person blazing rows via an interpreter.

We’d rant and rage astatine each different — with this mediocre interpreter stuck betwixt 2 large blokes with large egos with steam coming retired of their eyes — and by the clip he’d translated what either of america said, the sting had gone retired of the argument.

It was similar if you’re having a enactment with your missus connected the telephone and conscionable arsenic you’re getting to your champion point, you suffer telephone reception — you tin ne'er truly commencement the statement decently again!

Then, aft Watford were relegated successful 2020, I was 1 of 5 elder pros who were frozen retired of the first-team squad and made to bid distant from the main radical due to the fact that they wanted to off-load america for fiscal reasons.

We didn’t similar it but we ever turned up connected time, trained decently and didn’t kick publicly.

I ended up staying that season, due to the fact that a determination to Tottenham couldn’t beryllium finalised, and I played my portion successful winning promotion.

The erstwhile season, Nigel Pearson arrived arsenic manager and challenged maine — conscionable to beryllium to the remainder of the dressing room that cipher was safe.

I respected Nigel and connected that occasion, a combative attack worked.

When I managed Forest Green Rovers concisely past season, I did publically criticise my players.

I privation to negociate again and, if I do, I’d support that benignant of disapproval successful house.

Thierry Henry precocious told maine that he’d had a spell astatine his players successful the media portion managing Monaco.

He said players of our procreation could instrumentality it but that times person changed. I agree.

Now players are rewarded with £300,000-a-week, five-year contracts for half-decent form, past deliberation the satellite owes them a surviving and that they’re supra taking immoderate stick.

So I person nary occupation with Amorim calling retired Rashford — adjacent past weekend’s jibe that helium would alternatively person his 63-year-old goalkeeping manager connected the bench, alternatively than a subordinate who didn’t springiness his all.

Amorim is mounting standards, gathering foundations.

He’s the benignant of manager I’d person loved to enactment for and he’s United’s champion anticipation successful years.

Rashford was erstwhile United’s large anticipation but not immoderate more.

I don’t foresee a future for him astatine Old Trafford and helium volition ne'er spell down arsenic a nine legend,  simply a decent subordinate who came done the ranks but mislaid his way.

Maybe I’ll beryllium proved wrong. Maybe I’ll constitute that apology. But I’m not holding my breath.