Dwight Yorke reveals Marcus Rashford remains a key player for Manchester United | OneFootball

Dwight Yorke believes Manchester United should choose to “prioritise” helping Marcus Rashford regain his scintillating form of last season as he still has “so much to offer” the side, despite his struggles this year causing the fanbase to turn on the forward.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with The Peoples Person, courtesy of TvSportsGuide, Yorke, who has previously managed in Australia and coached the Trinidad and Tobago national team, revealed he would enjoy the opportunity to work with Rashford as he is a player who has “all the ingredients” to be successful.

When asked how he would seek to help United’s misfiring forward line as a coach, Yorke stated, “Marcus Rashford is somebody I would take a great deal of interest in because…simply, pound-for-pound, player-for-player, he’s got all the ingredients.”

Last season, there would not have been a single United fan who disagreed with this assessment.

It is not an understatement to contend Rashford single-handedly carried United’s attack, with 30 goals and 11 assists constituting the Englishman’s best return in a Red Devils’ shirt, leading the club to reward him with a new five-year deal and a massive pay rise.

Ten months on from this point, the positivity of last season feels a very distant memory, with large swathes of the Old Trafford faithful happy to see United sell their academy graduate in the summer, should a suitable offer arrive.

After Rashford left the pitch during the FA Cup semi-final against Coventry City on Sunday with an injury, the forward was loudly booed by his own fans in a moment which would have been unthinkable last year.

While the England international produced an abysmal performance, for his own fanbase to jeer at his withdrawal through injury speaks to just how broken the relationship between the player and supporters has become.

A tough season on the pitch for Rashford – just 8 goals and 5 assists in 40 games – has been mirrored by troubles off it, with multiple incidents of unprofessional behaviour and murmurings of discontent bubbling beneath the surface.

Yorke does not know whether Rashford’s struggles stem from a “psychological point of view or a confidence point of view”, but the former United man would still “prioritise” helping the 26-year-old forward to get “fit and happy” if he was a coach at Old Trafford.

“We get a fit and a happy Rashford playing the way he can play, you see what he’s done last season, I still think he’s got so much to offer,” Yorke revealed.

When The Peoples Person asked the 52-year-old coach about Rashford’s future this summer given the fanbase’s opinion of him, he explained this negativity simply boils down to a “bunch of frustration…[with] the inconsistency from both Rashford and the team.”

With INEOS set to take charge of their first transfer window in charge of the football operation at United, the future of Rashford constitutes one of the most important decisions on the agenda.

They have the opportunity to lay down a serious mark of intent should they choose to shift him or, conversely, take on the challenge of helping Rashford, as Yorke implores, to rediscover the form which was so fundamental to the club’s success last season.

Whether Rashford remains a United player next year or not feels an already defining moment in the early period of the INEOS revolution at Old Trafford.

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