Eighteen months ago, after he signed a contract worth £ 84.5 million, it seemed that Marcus Rashford could not do anything wrong.
Now, with the transfer window that will be closed on Monday evening, the Spits of Manchester United are confronted with omitted in the cold for the rest of the season – with only the size of his bank balance for comfort.
It is a dramatic change of fortune for the former Academy Prodigy, which scored 30 goals in 56 games before signing a five -year deal in 2023.
The life-changing contract guaranteed Rashford £ 325,000 a week if he stayed at Old Trafford and millions in bonuses until 2028 if he helped Manchester United to return to his glory days by winning trophies.
With 178 weeks left on his contract, he will be guaranteed to earn £ 57.85 million – unless he leaves the club.
Outside the field, his children's food campaign earned poverty Marcus widespread compliments and an MBE.
The football player also became a bestseller author of children, with his breakfast clubans on his own upbringing in Wythenshawe, Manchester.
Not bad for a child from a heavy part of the city who made his old Trafford debut in 2016 just 18 years.
But now Rashford, 27, has become a £ 60 million problem for United.
The sun understands that the multi-millionaire player has met his match in the billionaire minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe of the club, who, according to him, wants him as part of his cost-saving regime.
“He feels picked”
And the speed of the fall of the star -striker to persona non grata has left him “stunned and destroyed”, said a source.
They added: “Marcus thinks Sir Jim wants him from the club and in fact told manager Ruben Amorim to get him out.
“He may have just met Sir Jim.”
The international of England has been bombed from the team from the team from the team for the past 12 games and will probably miss a 13th on Sunday when United Crystal Palace plays.
The first signs of Rashford's downfall of one of the biggest stars of football to the founder of United's “Bomb Squad” can be taken back well before the recent arrival of Amorim.
Respected United We Stand Fanzine Editor Andy Mitten recently told Talksport: “Every previous manager has had problems with Rashford. They told me that they are going back for years and years and years. “
Under Erik ten Hag, he was admonished twice by the Dutchman for the evening.
He described Rashford that he enjoys Manchester's Chinawhite after a 3-0 defeat by Man City in October 2023 as “unacceptable”.
Three months later, Rashford received a fine of two weeks after an appeal to the training after a Tequila-driven bending of two nights in Belfast.
His career on the field has never been recovered, while the problems have been set up.
In July he received a driving ban of six months after he was caught 104 km / h on the M60 in December 2023.
District judge Lucy Hogarth gave him six penal points that saw him forbidden because he had already hit six points in February 2023 after exceeding the 20 MPH limit in the center of Manchester.
And in September 2023 his Rolls Royce was written off after collided with a grandmother while he drove home late in the evening.
Work on a luxury mansion on a former golf course has also put pressure on the finances of Rashford and seems to stop while the building is empty.
Family relationships were also put under pressure when his agent Broer Dane was arrested – and later it was released – on suspicion of domestic attack during holidays in Miami in November 2023.
Marcus and his other brother and fellow agent Dwayne tried to distance themselves from Dane before he was brought back into the fold prior to a potential transfer.
Rashford – awarded a MBE for his work on poverty for children in 2021 – has always maintained that football always comes first.
But his off-Pitch distractions coincided with an extensive loss of shape, so that some fans have turned on the star and placed videos on social media in which he emphasizes what they say is a lack of dedication.
Portuguese manager Amorim warned this week: “Rashford must change. We have to set some standards.
“We wait for Marcus if he really wants it badly.”
Days earlier, Amorim said he would rather choose his 63-year-old keepers coach than a player “who does not give the maximum every day”.
The insider added: “Marcus feels like he is being picked.
“In the early days of training under Amorim, he tried to learn new systems and other players were struggling – but he was the one who received more vocal criticism.
“He knows he has to leave, but he is shocked that no large team has taken everything out of the closet to get him. There has been interest, but financially it is a complicated deal and that is quite a few teams.
“Marcus has been stunned by how quickly his relationship with Amorim fell apart.”
Only 13 days after Amorim started in United in November, Rashford scored within two minutes after kick -off against Ipswich.
He got two more goals against Everton on December 1 and praised the “exciting” ideas of the new manager.
The sun can reveal problems between Amorim and Rashford, came to a peak when the manager accused him of going two nights for the Everton match.
During a tense conversation, Amorim Rashford accused of the unprofessional worn. The source said: “Marcus was invoked by the manager who said he believed that he had broken the discipline by going out.
“Marcus denied it and was adamant that he had done nothing wrong. He asked the manager to show him proof that he had been out and said something along the lines of: “Do you call me a liar?”
“Their relationship has never been restored, and it is difficult to see what it will be like now.”
The couple went through an uncomfortable ceasefire before Amorim Rashford and winger Alejandro van de Ploeg dropped for the Derby match against City on December 15, which United won 2-1.
Afterwards, Amorim explained his decision and said: “The performance in training, the way you eat, the way you push your teammates-alles is important at the start of something.”
Two days later, Rashford hit back with a non -planned interview that surprises the club.
He visits his former primary school to hand out Christmas presents, journalist Henry Winter said: “I think I'm ready for a new challenge.
'If I leave, it will be' no hard feelings'. You are not going to have any negative comments about Manchester United.
“If I know that a situation is already bad, I will not make it worse.
“I have seen how other players have left in the past and I don't want to be that person. If I leave, I will make a statement and it will be mine. I don't regret the past nine years. “
This week Winter said: “Rashford has a lot of money. For Amorim to invest in the team and for the type of players he wants, they have to move some players. “
Rashford, who has few good friends in the dressing room, is advised by the United Legend Wayne Rooney to find a new club.
Wazza said on the stick to football podcast: “I spoke with Marcus a few times.
“To have a new start, he has to leave the club. The fact that your manager comes out and says that you are not training well is crazy. “
The comments came after Rashford's Broers Dwayne and Dane spent the last few weeks with the aid of the best European clubs, including AC Milan, Borussia Dortmund and Barcelona in an attempt to make a move by Old Trafford.
A contract of £ 35 million a year of an unnamed Saudi club has also been disputed, but was rejected because Rashford still hopes to add to its 60 English international caps.
Now the rumor mill tilts him for a move to Aston Villa.
'I have made sacrifices'
Insight into the current mentality of Rashford is difficult, where the player keeps his cards close to his chest and only trusts a small circle of mainly family members who help with his career.
But in February 2024 the player gave a rare insight by giving an article for the player's grandstand.
He said, “I'm a human being. I have made mistakes that many guys make in the twenties, and I tried to learn from them. But I also made sacrifices that nobody sees.
“Money is not what you let play by the difficult times. It is the love of the game, clear and simple.
'If you bring me back, good. If you doubt me, even better. “
Rashford, who has won the FA Cup with United twice, is considered by some in the club to be a player who has difficulty building relationships and misses leadership skills.
The disconnection was recently emphasized when photos were released of Rashford -Begroeting teammates in the dressing room prior to the collision of United against Newcastle United on December 30 – while still wearing his headphones.
Sir Jim and Rashford can only hope that in the next 48 hours they can come and a mutually satisfactory conclusion, because again denying the once warm relationship between club and player seems unlikely.
Our source said: “Marcus is determined that he is not going to do what the club wants to do unless it is good for him.
“There is no more luck. Marcus is a problem of £ 60 million for United. But the responsibility is at the club to solve it. '
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