Manchester United Icon Gary Neville has responded to comments from Marcus Rashford, who criticized his boys' club after his loan switch to Barcelona this summer
At Marcus Rashford, Gary Neville has urged Barcelona to concentrate instead of giving his opinion on the efforts of Ruben Amorim at Manchester United now that he has left Old Trafford.
Rashford left his youth club to become a member of the Spanish giants on loan for the 2025/26 campaign, but he still felt compelled to share his views about the reconstruction task that Amorim is confronted with in Old Trafford. The attacker provided a destructive criticism of United and claimed that they cannot protect behind the justification of a club in transition.
“To start a transition, you have to make a plan and stick to it,” Rashford told Gary Lineker last week on the rest is a football podcast. “This is what I am talking about being realistic about what your situation is. We have had so many different managers, ideas and strategies to win that you end up in no one's country.”
His comments became part of a discussion about the Monday evening football from Sky Sports, while Neville approached the circumstances of Amorim.
“This season I think the manager to watch is the United manager,” said Neville. “All eyes are aimed at him. Can he do it? He had a terrible start of his united career. He didn't want to go through the track last season.”
Presenter David Jones intervened and said, “You don't think so that he will get this season, what happens?”
“Oh no, I don't think it's that easy,” Neville added. “I think if he is in the lower half of the table, it is under enormous pressure.”
Jones then asked: “What about what Marcus Rashford recently said that Manchester United should come up with a plan and stay somewhere, right?”
Neville answered by dewating with his hand and said: “Let's ignore that because I don't want to go to Marcus Rashford tonight.
“He was in the club there for 10 years and had his chance to influence the club. Ruben Amorim, this year I think it will do well. Marcus should concentrate on Barcelona.”
These comments are a damn reflection of Neville's opinion about the future of Rashford in Old Trafford, because many believe that the star born in Manchester will leave United soon enough.
Neville stemmed from the discussion of Amorim's United and gave his first impressions of the newly formed team that lost to Arsenal on Sunday. He said, “Yesterday was the first time I saw that formation at Old Trafford, where I thought,” Right, we have a chance here, that worked. “
“He had brought in a few different players, he had received [Mason] Mount back, introduced Luke Shaw in the Left Center-Back, which helped and I think it was the first time, it is a difficult, rare system, it needs specialists, but when you saw [Matheus] Cunha Play, saw Mount Play, saw Shaw in the left center-back-er was a balance! Casemiro suddenly looked a better player! Immediately he looked a better player. “
Jamie Carragher interrupted with a smile, added: “It was one game!”
Despite the defeat of the opening day, a buoys United will believe that their first points of the new season will not be far away, and they continue their Premier League campaign on Sunday against Fulham in Craven Cottage.