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Former defender of Manchester United Gary Neville said he sees its “inevitable end”. Marcus Rashford After leaving the club, the forward was again left out of the matchday squad.
Rashford sat out for a third consecutive game as United prepare to host Bournemouth The head coach has also been dropped in the Premier League Reuben Amorim Last Sunday’s 2-1 win at Manchester City and Thursday’s 4-3 loss to Tottenham in the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup.
The 27-year-old England international said in an eye-opening interview on Tuesday that he was “ready for a new challenge and the next step”.
Neville told Sky: “It’s not really big team news anymore. It’s something of a standard, a pattern that has developed over the past week. It was a surprise last weekend.
“It’s got to the point where you’ve got him out for three games on the bounce something is really clearly going wrong or has gone wrong and it doesn’t look good for Marcus’ future either for the club or for Manchester United to hold onto him.
“I suspect it has reached that point in the journey where it has reached an inevitable end.
“It’s a distraction for the manager. It’s become clear that he probably needs to leave and the club wants him to leave – that would probably work out for both parties.
I suspect it has reached that point in the journey where it has met an inevitable end
Gary Neville
“There are also good examples of players who have struggled at United… Jadon Sancho has gone to Chelsea and is doing better, Scott McTominay is not struggling but he has left to go to Napoli and he is doing well, so Marcus can think it is the right thing for him too.”
Amorim cited “selection” reasons for Rashford’s absence in the previous two matches and did so again on Sunday.
Asked about the decision ahead of the Bournemouth match, the Portuguese told Sky: “It’s my decision and it always will be.
“It’s an election. I want to see my best players and I try different things with different players, so that’s my focus.”
