Marcus Rashford cannot be painted as an innocent 犠牲者 when he is looking like the brash £315k-a-week footballer we hoped he wasn't... now selling him IS an 選択 of Man 部隊d

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It's a bitter irony that a week in which Manchester 部隊d celebrated their 250th homegrown player making his first-team debut is ending with the poster boy for the club’s 学院 fighting 支援する against his critics.

For 十代の少年少女 Ethan Wheatley, this is a week he will never forget. And Marcus Rashford? 井戸／弁護士席, let’s just say it has been another low in the rollercoaster career of one of 部隊d’s most gifted but infuriatingly erratic 星／主役にするs.

As Wheatley （機の）カム on as a late 代用品，人 in the 勝利，勝つ over Sheffield 部隊d in midweek, Rashford was nursing a 脚 傷害 支えるd in the FA Cup 半分-final against Coventry City last 週末.

The 26-year-old was booed off by a 少数，小数派 of his own fans at Wembley. There were even some wholly unsubstantiated suggestions on social マスコミ that he was feigning 傷害.

By Thursday night, Rashford decided to 攻撃する，衝突する 支援する.

Marcus Rashford 解雇する／砲火／射撃d 支援する at his Manchester 部隊d critics in a fiery 地位，任命する on his social マスコミ

During Sunday's FA Cup 半分-final against Coventry, Rashford left the field with an 傷害 an d was met by a chorus of boos from a 少数，小数派 of Manchester 部隊d fans at Wembley

In 返答, he thanked fans online for their support before 明言する／公表するing that he had 'had enough'

‘I 高く評価する／（相場などが）上がる your support!’ he tweeted in 返答 to a 同情的な message 述べるing his 治療 as ‘disgusting’ and ‘cruel’.

‘It is 乱用 and has been for months,’ 追加するd Rashford. ‘Enough is enough.’

Fifteen words, 地位，任命するd half an hour after midnight, that say much about his 状況／情勢 at the moment.

It isn’t the first time Rashford has had to defend himself this season. In February, he wrote a first-person piece for The Players’ Tribune.

‘I can take any 批評,’ wrote Rashford. ‘But if you start 尋問 my かかわり合い to this club and my love for football and bringing my family into it, then I’d 簡単に ask you to have a bit more humanity.’

His mother Melanie Maynard even penned a piece for The Times explaining that he had lost two people の近くに to him over the last 18 months, his cousin Nathan and a family friend called Garf.

‘Marcus is human, so he will have ups and 負かす／撃墜するs in his life like everyone else,’ she wrote.

安全な to say, 非，不，無 of it will 削減（する） much ice with his critics.

Rashford 示唆するd that some of the ill-feeling was rooted in the pandemic and his crusade to fight child food poverty which earned him an MBE. The （激しい）反発 against his now 悪名高い tequila bender in Belfast （機の）カム from people waiting for him to have ‘a human moment’, he （人命などを）奪う，主張するd.

多重の times this season, Rashford has 攻撃するd out at his doubters 経由で 非常に長い 声明s?

In the past, the Man 部隊d 今後 has run several （選挙などの）運動をするs to end childhood poverty??

Sadly, there will always be a moronic element hiding under a 激しく揺する; the 肉親，親類d of people who 人種上 乱用d Rashford and his England チーム仲間s Bukayo Saka and Jadon Sancho after they 行方不明になるd 刑罰，罰則s in the shootout to decide the final of Euro 2020.

Rashford is a young man who has risen from a poor しつけ in Wythenshawe to earn a basic £315,000-a-week ? more than £350,000 if he and the team 攻撃する，衝突する their 特別手当 的s ? build a multi-million 続けざまに猛撃する house with its own ゴルフ course, and own a (n)艦隊／(a)素早い of 高級な cars.

His mother and two brothers, Dwaine Maynard and Dane Rashf ord, who also 代表する him, are 井戸／弁護士席 供給するd for. Envy festers easily の中で the idiots.

But to paint Rashford as innocent 犠牲者 here perhaps 行方不明になるs the point. As a world-famous footballer playing for one of the biggest clubs on the 惑星, he should not be 免除された from 批評 and, goodness knows, he has given the 狙撃者s plenty of 弾薬／武器.

The jaw-dropping new 契約 last summer （機の）カム on the 支援する of a 30-goal season for 部隊d. This 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語, he has 得点する／非難する／２０d just eight with six games to go, starting with Saturday's 会合 with Burnley at Old Trafford which he is likely to 行方不明になる.

From his preferred position on the 左翼, he has 与える／捧げるd a その上の five 補助装置s. These are not stats that will send the Opta computer system into 炉心溶融.

Three goals in a 列／漕ぐ／騒動 in March against Manchester City, Everton and Liverpool 示唆するd that he was hitting a rich vein of form. However, Rashford has 解雇する／砲火／射撃d blanks in his next five games, starting two of them on the （法廷の）裁判. There are no 保証（人）s he will be in the England squad for Euro 2024.

When some 今後s aren’t 得点する／非難する／２０ing, they （不足などを）補う for it with an 豊富 of 成果／努力. チーム仲間 Rasmus Hojlund is a good example of this.

Rashford 得点する／非難する／２０d a career-best 30 goals last season, but has not replicated the form this season

This season, he's 得点する／非難する／２０d just eight goals and 登録（する）d five 補助装置s - with six games to go

There are times, though, when it feels like Rashford couldn’t do a better impersonation of someone who didn’t care いっそう少なく if he tried. Those times when he comes across as the polar opposite of the young man he wrote about in The Players’ Tribune, living out his dream for his boyhood club and challenging anyone to question his かかわり合い.

Those の近くに to Rashford say he is an individual who wears his heart on his sleeve and struggles to hide his emotions. Shy by nature, he can come across as sulky and sullen.

But 経営者／支配人 Erik ten Hag and 部隊d 支持者s 推定する／予想する their players to put in a 転換. To 圧力（をかける） and chase. There are too many clips of Rashford making half-hearted 試みる／企てるs to 圧力 対抗者s or 跡をつける 支援する to 簡単に 解任する it as 不公平な 批評.

Your mind goes 支援する to the FA Cup tie against Aston 郊外住宅 in January 2022 when Rashford was booed by his own fans at Old Trafford for not making the 成果／努力 to chase a loose ball. That was a nadir in his 部隊d career and it feels like we have reached another low point now.

There have been rumblings of discontent に向かって him in games against Brentford, City and Chelsea this season, and they surfaced again at Wembley last 週末.

It has raised the almost 考えられない question: would 部隊d consider selling Rashford this summer?

With 100 per cent of the 利益（をあげる） from 貿易（する）ing homegrown players going に向かって 従うing with 財政上の fair play 規則s, it would have to be an 選択 ? 特に with new co-owners Ineos committed to a 猛烈な／残忍な economy 運動 that could see a number of other big earners leave at the end of the season.

Paris-Saint Germain, who held 会談 with Rashford’s 代表者／国会議員s two years ago, are one of few clubs who could realistically 会合，会う Rashford’s £75million valuation and match his personal 条件 as they 捜し出す to 取って代わる Kylian Mbappe.

Man 部隊d are now 直面するd with the 考えられない question of whether it's 価値（がある） selling Rashford

Erik ten Hag (left) has 支援するd Rashford but has not been repaid in the 約束 placed in the 星／主役にする

部隊d continue to believe in Rashford and want him to 後継する at Old Trafford after 投資するing so ひどく in him with the new 契約. But there is also a 承認 that something needs to change and it must be a two-way 過程.

Ten Hag has 支援するd the player, even though his 減少（する） in form is one of several factors that have 土台を崩すd the Dutchman’s second season, but the feeling is that Rashford needs t o show a 願望（する） to stay at 部隊d and fight for his 未来.

Some fans would not be sorry to see the 支援する of him. But in a summer of 重要な churn, when Anthony 戦争の could feasibly be followed out of the club by Jadon Sancho and Mason Greenwood, ideally 部隊d don’t really want to be having to find another new 今後.

If Rashford’s 衝撃 on the pitch has dwindled, then what about his 評判 off it?

The wholesome homegrown hero who （選挙などの）運動をするd against child food poverty and seemed 始める，決める for life with his childhood sweetheart, is more likely to make the news these days for the wrong 推論する／理由s.

There was the ill-裁判官d 26th birthday 祝賀 at 中国 White nightspot in October, just hours after 部隊d were 井戸／弁護士席 beaten by City in the Old Trafford derby.?

A month earlier, his £700,000 Rolls Royce was written off in a 衝突，墜落 の近くに to the training ground. This year, he has been pictured peeling parking tickets off his McLaren sports car and Lamborghini Urus after leaving them on 二塁打 yellow lines.

Rashford (left) pictured getting into his £700,000 Rolls Royce - which he later wrote off

The 今後 衝突，墜落d the 高級な car outside 部隊d's training ground before selling it for cheap?

Not the worst sins in the world. But at times it has felt like Rashford is turning into the brash football 星／主役にする we hoped he wasn’t.

Perhaps a more 正確な image is painted by Sarah Adair, the waitress who …を伴ってd him on his 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 はう around Belfast in January which ended with him 行方不明の training and 存在 disciplined by Ten Hag.

On the one 手渡す, we had the superstar 飛行機で行くing in by 私的な jet with his 側近 ? ‘his friends 扱う／治療するd him like he was a god’ ? dripping in designer jewellery 含むing two diamond encrusted watches, getting so drunk that he was incapable of doing the 職業 for which he is so richly rewarded, and then fibbing to his club about the night out.

On the other, 行方不明になる Adair perceived something in Rashford that maybe others don’t. ‘Marcus was confiden t but also seemed a bit shy. It’s as though he doesn’t really know who he is,’ she 観察するd.

部隊d have harboured 関心s over Rashford’s lifestyle for some time, and his mother wrote ominously about people around him 存在 ‘wolves dressed in sheep’s 着せる／賦与するing’.

Rashford 直面するd 批評 after he was spotted going into a Belfast nightclub late at night, in January, にもかかわらず having a training 開会／開廷／会期 at 部隊d the に引き続いて morning?

It was always felt that his girlfriend Lucia Loi was a 安定したing 影響（力）, even during the times they weren’t together, before they 分裂（する） up for good. Rashford has changed PR 代表者／国会議員s twice since then, but 肯定的な spin will only get you so far.

He needs to get 支援する to what he does best, the one thing he has always loved more than anything else.

Rashford was Wheatley once: the 十代の少年少女 bursting の上に the scene in February 2016 with four goals in his first two games against Midtjylland and 兵器庫. Eight years on, he should be in the prime of his life and at the 頂点（に達する） of his career.

As he reaches what feels like another 十字路／岐路, we are still hoping that Rashford will turn into the player ? and person ? we always believed he would.