According to Stan Collymore, Marcus Rashford was “the victim as well as the matter” during his fights in Manchester United.
Rashford joined Aston Villa in January for a first loan contract until the end of the season, with the West Midlands Club the opportunity to make the move in summer for £ 40 million.
It ended an unfortunate magic in Old Trafford for the English international, who was frozen under the new boss Ruben Amorim.
Rashford came through the ranks at United, made 426 appearances and scored 138 goals, but was criticized in the past 18 months because he had noticed a lack of enthusiasm.
Collymore is relentless, but the 27-year-old shouldn’t shoulder too much from guilt.
Marcus Rashford’s all-action @Avfcofficial Debut!
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Childhood fan became a superstar
The former Villa striker told 101 great goals William Hill Vegas: “You can be somewhere too long. He has been there since childhood (association) and it is everything he knows.
“This coincided with a change in generation from MAN UTD, which is together in the Premier League over the perch to the dead men.
“It wasn’t all Marcus Rashford’s fault, there were many poor players who went through the doors in Old Trafford, and there were several managers who did not have the right fit. He was the victim as well as the matter. “
Rashford joined his second appearance in the Villa and in the Premier League-Zur halftime to replace Jacob Ramsey against Ipswich and had an impact.
He saw dangerously on the left and played a crucial role in the equalizer with a free kick that came back from the woodwork and enabled Ollie Watkins to tap the rebound.
No Premier League player has set more chances over the weekend than Marcus Rashford, although the wing player only plays 45 minutes. pic.twitter.com/j3f5yFMA46
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Rashford is worth a punt – Collymore
It was the kind of Cameo that Collymore believes that Villa boss Unai Emery rightly had a chance of Rashford.
He added: “In a club like Villa, in which Unai Emery runs everything – most employees have now been brought from Spain, people who know Unai Emery – he is comfortable enough to say that I have a punt and a punt will take and say it is up to me and make him a better player.
“Of course not, managers who develop players, and they can bring emery to this bracket, they like the strange gambling, the strange risk, it is a test for their ability to take someone below and polish the diamond.
“He has 20 games to conjure up Marcus’ face. The Villa Media team did everything to try to catch Marcus during training and stay behind the additional training to bring the story out there that he works hard and that he wants to be part of the club.
“He is assessed according to his edition. I don’t care whether he smiles or not or whether he is happy or not, whether he is ruthless if he uses the properties that he needs to be able to score chances to score goals and help villa in to get the top seventh positions (in the Premier League) and continue in the Champions League. “
Rashford can start with Villa tomorrow evening when the leaders of the Premier League in Liverpool of the moderator.
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