Giggs highlights one thing Rashford needs to rediscover during his Villa loan

Legend Ryan Giggs, Manchester United, has expressed the only thing that he believes to rediscover Marcus Rashford after he had left the club on loan.

Rashford, 27, completed a loan movement to Aston Villa during the January transfer window after he got out of grace under the current manager Ruben Amorim at United.

However, Giggs has now hinted that Rashford now seems like a shadow of his former self, and notes that he “has the weight of the world on his shoulders.”

The Welshman, who has the record for most performances for the Red Devils, with 963, was part of the club's coaching staff when Rashford burst on the scene as a 17-year-old graduate Academy.

However, he has passed Amorim for a difficult period because the Portuguese manager Erik ten Hag replaced in Old Trafford in November.

After he has been considered excess against the requirements in Manchester, Rashford can start again after his move to Villa Park.

With the deal completed, Giggs called on the attacker to rediscover the spark that enabled him to hit the ground as a young person in United.

Giggs, 51, said: 'Everyone will remember that smile and that pleasure and freedom when he came for the first time – but he doesn't look like that now.

“He is a human being and he just doesn't look happy. He looks like he has the world on his shoulders.

“He has to play with that freedom and pleasure that brought him where he is now.”

Rashford could be his villa debut on Sunday, when Unai Emery's Side Fish Tottenham Hotspur in the fifth round of the FA Cup.

He is eligible for the villains in the competition, after he has not played for United since December.

But Giggs added that he thinks it is going more than just taking minutes on the field if Rashford has to find shape again.

He continued: 'United must come through young players, one of them and it just felt that he was next.

'But for whatever reason, he had a decent career, but he never became what I thought he would be.

'More than whatever, he is a human and he just doesn't look happy.

“He looks like he has the world on his shoulders.

'And I don't know why, because the boy I saw and whom I coached did not have the world on his shoulders.

“He just played with freedom, he loved the club and was a great boy, but he just doesn't look now.”