Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes claims Marcus Rashford should be “banished” from the dressing room because he let his teammates down.
The England international hasn’t played for United since December 12th, when manager Ruben Amorim left him out of the squad for every game since, with the exception of one where he was an unused substitute.
Amorim reportedly cited a lack of effort in his suggestion on Sunday that he would prefer to have 63-year-old goalkeeper Jorge Vital in his squad over the 27-year-old forward.
Scholes, who won 11 Premier League titles with United, expressed strong views about Rashford on The Overlap Fan Debate.
“I think Marcus has let a lot of people down really, with his attitude, and I think that’s what the manager is trying to say”, he said.
“You think of the young players coming through the team, think of (Alejandro) Garnacho, they’re looking up to people like Marcus now — he’s 27 years of age, and he’s clearly not training properly.
” I remember years ago when I told the manager (Alex Ferguson) I didn’t want to play in that Arsenal game… he said to me ‘ The worst thing you did is let your team-mates down’, and that really stuck with me because I wasn’t really thinking about that — and now I think Marcus Rashford, he’s doing exactly the same.
“OK, he’s not refusing to play, but in the way he’s behaving and the way he’s training, in a way he is saying I don’t want to be involved with these.
So I believe that letting your team-mates down in that dressing room should be forbidding, really. If he’s in and around that and young people are seeing that as an example, the sooner he’s gone the better. “
Rio Ferdinand, a former United defender, made similar strong remarks on the Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast, saying that Rashford had “no way back” after Amorim’s comments.
Two days after being exempt from the squad for the game against Manchester City, Rashford declared in December that he was prepared for a “new challenge.”
Barcelona, Borussia Dortmund and AC Milan have been linked with a move for the player, who has scored 138 goals in 426 appearances for United, during the January transfer window.
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