When Manchester United announced that Marcus Rashford had signed a five-year contract with the club just two summers ago, it was delivered with the caption: “Where you belong.”
Within 18 months it became abundantly apparent that Rashford no longer belonged.
During a rare interview last December, Rashford declared himself ready for a “new challenge”, discussing the prospect of leaving his boyhood club as a matter of “when” rather than “if”. The 27-year-old is yet to appear for United since those comments and seems unlikely to ever do so again after securing a second successive loan away from Old Trafford.
Rashford once described himself as “a seven-year-old boy with a dream”. It now looks more like a nightmare. What went so wrong?
