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Post by WhatsTheMata on Mar 31, 2016 11:57:34 GMT
Ridiculous. The Sun is vile, what a pile of garbage. The ABU media never gets tired. Rashford has nothing to do with it.
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Post by CaajScot on Apr 12, 2016 12:23:54 GMT
2/04/2016 10:56, Report by Ben Ashby COVER STAR RASHFORD INSPIRING LOCAL YOUTH Marcus Rashford's rise to fame in United's first team is inspiring the young people in his local Manchester neighbourhood of Wythenshawe.
The 18-year-old appears on the front cover of Inside United, on sale today, after storming the back pages of the national press with his entrance to senior football. His achievements, including a derby winner and four other goals in his 10 appearances so far, have been a source of great pride in the area where he grew up. The official club magazine discovered this when it dropped in on an evening football session at a Wythenshawe school, organised for local youngsters by the Manchester United Foundation. “He’s a great footballer and that inspires me to become good as well,” said 12-year-old Vegas. “He’s a great team player and doesn’t give up, which inspires me not to give up.” “He nutmegged me once and I will never forget it!” revealed 16-year-old Luke, who went to the same primary school as Marcus. “The thing that has impressed me most is that he has made it to be a professional but he has worked very hard for what he has got, and that’s what counts.” Rashford's seminal goal against Manchester City also went down well in Wythenshawe. “I watched the derby with my friends and when he scored we all went ballistic,” said 15-year-old Dre. “We were celebrating for him.” Marcus's elevation is one of this season's success stories and it's told in full by Inside United's May issue, out now. Copies and subscriptions are available from manutd.com/magazine. www.manutd.com/en/News-And-Features/Football-News/2016/Apr/inside-united-cover-star-marcus-rashford-inspires-young-people-in-home-wythenshawe-area-manchester.aspx
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2016 11:19:29 GMT
Genuinely wondering what this lads career could be like. 6 goals in 11 starts is an amazing return for anyone - let alone an 18 year old
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2016 11:28:59 GMT
Genuinely wondering what this lads career could be like. 6 goals in 11 starts is an amazing return for anyone - let alone an 18 year old Loads of kids burst onto the scene because they have talent in one particular area but their weaknesses get found quickly. Not sure what his are yet.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2016 13:16:17 GMT
Genuinely wondering what this lads career could be like. 6 goals in 11 starts is an amazing return for anyone - let alone an 18 year old Loads of kids burst onto the scene because they have talent in one particular area but their weaknesses get found quickly. Not sure what his are yet. Good coaching haha
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Post by Sméagol on Apr 16, 2016 13:09:06 GMT
Marcus Rashford was so highly coveted as a seven-year-old he rejected Liverpool and Everton to join Manchester United. The 18-year-old striker beat George Best's 52-year-old record to become United's youngest European goalscorer when he scored twice on his first career appearance against Midtjylland on Thursday night. Wythenshawe-born Rashford is the latest Fletcher Moss Rangers junior football club graduate to make the step up to the United first-team. What Wallsend Boys' Club is to Newcastle, Fletcher Moss is to United. Rashford has trodden the same path as Wes Brown, Danny Welbeck, Ravel Morrison, Zeki Fryers, Jesse Lingard, Tyler Blackett and Cameron Borthwick-Jackson. Like his predecessors, Rashford had his heart set on one club, despite interest from Liverpool and David Moyes' Everton in 2005. "He's a United fan," Fletcher Moss chairman Ron Jamieson tells M.E.N. Sport. "Once they came in for him I don't think they'd have chosen anyone else. Everton, United and Liverpool, they were all clamouring around him. "Everton were quite keen on him, they actually swamped a particular tournament in 2005 and had Everton scouts at every single game and they were quite keen for him to go down to the training ground. But he wasn't too keen, to be fair, and neither were his parents." Rashford has been at United since he was seven but was deemed too small for City's academy. Jamieson concedes his height was a worry. "He was small until he was 14," he adds. "I'm only 5ft 5 and I spoke to him as a 14-year-old when he came down to watch one of the games and he was as tall as me. I thought 'Are you going to shoot up?' I was a bit worried about his size. "But he's just had a growth spurt, he's a good six-footer now, he must be. When he came to us he was only a little fella and (United Under-21s defender) Ro-Shaun Williams towered above him." Rashford went to Fletcher Moss as a six-year-old and Jamieson, as he told M.E.N. Sport only last month, identified him as a 'star' even though he was still in primary school. "He had a couple of teeth missing at the front," Jamieson says when recalling his first impressions. "We played a couple of home games and two or three looked half decent but with Marcus, it was the way he actually moved the ball around the pitch. "He was quite confident moving the ball but the thing that struck me more than anything was the way he could strike a ball, and for a six-year-old to break past a player and then hit the back of the net with such accuracy, I have never seen a kid strike a ball as well at his age - and he did it time and time again. "As well as taking players on for a youngster, there was just something about him. It was always a spectacular goal. His interest in football just stood out. He made goals as well as scored goals. "If Marcus got his chance he would be a star and it's proved to be right." Jamieson is adamant his family will keep the teenager grounded. "They just let him play and enjoy his football and what would come would come. He's very grounded, well groomed, a well-mannered young man, never see a big-time Charlie in him. His mum makes sure he keeps his feet on the ground. "He comes from a very good family, people that keep him well grounded. I'm sure his mum still sends him for a bottle of milk." Fletcher Moss' professional Manchester United graduates Tyler Blackett (2014-) Wes Brown (1998-2011) Danny Webber (2000-03) Cameron Borthwick-Jackson (2015-) Cameron Stewart (former academy member now at Ipswich) Zeki Fryers (2011-12) Jesse Lingard (2014-) Ravel Morrison (2010-12) Marcus Rashford (2016-) Danny Welbeck (2008-14) Devonte Redmond (current academy member) Demetri Mitchell (current academy member) Ro-Shaun Williams (current academy member) Reece Brown (former academy member now at Bury) www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/marcus-rashford-rejected-liverpool-join-10954380#ICID=sharebar_twitter
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Post by CaajScot on Apr 17, 2016 10:05:32 GMT
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17/04/2016 09:25, Report by Adam Marshall & Stephen Bibby DE GEA: RASHFORD CAN MAKE HISTORY David De Gea believes Marcus Rashford can go on to make history for Manchester United after the teenager's latest goal earned a 1-0 victory over Aston Villa.
Rashford took his tally to seven in 12 games during the first half at Old Trafford on Saturday and De Gea is delighted with his colleague's seamless integration into the first team. "It's unbelievable, no?" the keeper told MUTV. "This player is really young and he's scored many goals. Hopefully, for many years, he'll be in this club and can make history for the club as well. He's a shy guy, a really good lad and a good team-mate. He's a really good guy." De Gea kept another clean sheet in a win that confirmed Villa's relegation from the Barclays Premier League and the Spaniard felt the three points were vital in the quest for a Champions League spot. "We've defended really well this season and we need to continue until the last game and hopefully we will be in the top four," he said. "We need to win our games and wait for the rest of the teams. We will see in the end." More: Click on the play button above to watch the full interview with De Gea. ****www.manutd.com/en/News-And-Features/Football-News/2016/Apr/Video-David-De-Gea-thinks-Marcus-Rashford-can-make-United-history.aspx ****
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Post by grandpaTJ on Apr 17, 2016 22:25:46 GMT
I think DDG is going to stick around for a while, especially if DD is dumped
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Post by CaajScot on Apr 23, 2016 10:54:08 GMT
Can't get it. If you're signed up can you please copy and paste? Here you are Aus. Edit: Its a long article and I tried putting it in as a spoiler but didn't work for some reason?
‘Everyone else was asleep but Marcus was doing sit-ups and press-ups’Oliver Kay | Chief Football Correspondent Published at 12:01AM, April 23 2016 Oliver Kay talks to former teachers, coaches and even the local takeaway owner about Manchester United’s boy wonder before this evening’s FA Cup semi-final against Everton at Wembley
February 25, 2016. Marcus Rashford is at the Manchester United team hotel, dining with the first-team squad before their Europa League encounter with Midtjylland. He is told that he will be on the substitutes’ bench. He calls home to tell his mother. She asks if she should make her way down to Old Trafford. “No,” he tells her. “I won’t get on.”
To his shock — not to mention his mother’s — Rashford is drafted into the starting line-up after Anthony Martial is injured in the warm-up. The 18-year-old scores twice on his debut and, for what feels like the first time all season, the United crowd have something to cheer about.
His mother, Melanie, cannot believe she missed his biggest moment, but she is overjoyed when he comes home. He is all over the next day’s papers — “all over them like a Rash”, to borrow from a popular red-top headline. Louis van Gaal tells him to keep his feet on the ground.
Three days later he makes his Barclays Premier League debut at home to Arsenal. He scores twice again, this time with his mother in attendance. “It’s unbelievable,” says a delighted Van Gaal.
Rashford’s sudden, spectacular emergence feels like a throwback to another age — stuff out of Roy of the Rovers, you may call it, a refreshing break from the stifling reality faced by so many young English footballers trying to make the grade with their local team.
Some wondered if he might be a flash in the pan, but no, the Rashford bandwagon has kept going. He has scored seven goals, some of them crucial or spectacular or both, in 13 first-team appearances for United, been proposed as a possible wild-card pick for England at Euro 2016 and, before he commits to a new contract worth tens of thousands of pounds a week, he has several of the sport’s most powerful agents — including Jorge Mendes, who works with José Mourinho, among many others — scrambling for the right to represent him. This evening brings an FA Cup semi-final against Everton at Wembley and, yes, his mother will be there. Rashford and his family are living the dream.
When Wayne Rooney made his debut for Everton as a 16-year-old in 2002, he and his family were still living in a council house in Croxteth, one of Merseyside’s toughest districts. Times have changed. Long before Rashford made his breakthrough into the United team, the teenager and his family had moved from Wythenshawe — the sprawling district where Shameless was filmed — to a five-bedroom detached house on a quiet road in Ashton-on-Mersey, just around the corner from the school (with an “outstanding” Ofsted rating) where, as part of his United scholarship, he spends Monday mornings and Thursdays studying for BTEC diplomas in business studies and sport.
Button Lane, Wythenshawe, is only three miles away, but it feels like a different world. “They moved away a few years ago,” a former neighbour says. “They still own the house here, but they rent it out now. You still see Marcus back here from time to time, but the family are sensible. They didn’t want to be around all this.”
“All this” is not easy to identify on a sunny April afternoon. Button Lane, in Northern Moor, might not be as quaint as it sounds, but nor does it appear as it did in The Duchess On The Estate, in which the Duchess of York paid an extended visit and portrayed it as the epitome of Broken Britain — “very sinister”, “these guys come out with their mobiles and knives as an accessory”, “that chap with the gun, it’s terrifying, it looks like a movie”.
Terrifying or not, Wythenshawe was a step up for Rashford and his family. Initially he had been brought up on the border of Withington and Moss Side in the midst of some localised but very troubling gang crime. “His mum was very shrewd,” says Dave Horrocks, academy development manager at Fletcher Moss Rangers, the youth team where Rashford first caught United’s eye as a seven-year-old. “There were problems where they were living and she was able to see how things might pan out if they stayed. She got them moved away and out of the firing line, so to speak. Compared to where he had been before, Northern Moor was quite affluent.”
"His mum is a diamond,” a family friend says. “His parents split up when he was quite young, but his mum always looked after the kids and kept them on the straight and narrow.”
Another consequence of that move was to take him from Manchester City territory — close to Maine Road and what was then their school of excellence at Platt Lane — to United territory. “He was being courted by both of them,” Horrocks says. “And because he was football-mad, he would train with United one night and City the next. The family didn’t have a car and, whereas City was on his doorstep, it was difficult for him to get to United, which was on the other side of town, so I sometimes used to pick him up and take him there.”
What was he like as a kid? “I couldn’t get two words out of him,” Horrocks says. “He was very shy, very quiet, but very focused.”
Simon Pyne, a teacher at Button Lane Primary School, is casting his mind back to a school trip to the Lake District — abseiling, canoeing, that sort of thing. “Even at that age, ten or eleven, Marcus was just so dedicated,” he says. “He would be up before the staff in the mornings, doing press-ups and sit-ups, preparing for the big time. He was already signed up with United by then and you could tell he wanted it so much.”
Pyne feels that Rashford’s focus, as well as the influence of his mother and older siblings, helped him to avoid some familiar pitfalls. “There were other boys of his age who went down other paths, if I can put it like that,” the teacher says. “He did extremely well to remain as motivated and dedicated as he was, considering some of the peers he had. His mum made sure of that. She pushed him, school-wise as well as football-wise. He had things to aim for from a very early age and he has absolutely made the most of that. Children don’t always have that.”
“You don’t have a crystal ball, so you never know for sure,” Horrocks says, back at Fletcher Moss Rangers, “but Marcus is one of those whose talent shone through straightaway. He scored 12 goals in one game. He was greedy with the ball, always looking to dribble and shoot. That’s not a criticism. We encourage them to dribble and shoot at that age because that’s what they enjoy. You work on the passing later. He was always hungry for the ball. Even when he was walking here with his brothers, Dwaine and Dane, he would be dribbling a ball all the way here or balancing it on his head.”
He quickly came to United’s attention. “I had him from under-7s to under-10s,” Phil Brogan, a former academy coach at United, says. “He was a great mover. He scored goals, but at that age it was more about what he did on the ball — he was quick, great skills, great technique. He was like a Brazilian player, the way he dribbled. The way we coached them, particularly once René Meulensteen came in, was about taking risks, expressing themselves – no fear. That was Marcus. He was a happy kid, always with the ball at his feet.”
At that time, the player causing most excitement in United’s academy — among everyone, from Sir Alex Ferguson down — was another Fletcher Moss Rangers graduate from Wythenshawe. Ravel Morrison was four and a half years Rashford’s senior, but his talent was undermined by a complex personality and a perceived susceptibility to trouble and “the wrong crowd”. At 23 he is at Lazio, but his career has been unravelling for some time.
“Marcus’s family kept him away from the negative influences that Ravel couldn’t get away from,” Horrocks says. “The best listeners are the best learners. Of the many players from Fletcher Moss who have made it into professional football, Ravel was the only one who wasn’t a listener. He got where he got to through pure talent. Marcus had talent, but, like Danny Welbeck, he was a listener. He would take on board whatever was said to him.”
Morrison’s development was characterised by peaks and troughs in mood and performance. Rashford’s progress through United’s academy was serene. The only worry he caused United was when City came calling again around his 16th birthday. City were determined to sign the one who got away, but Rashford stayed put. He felt he was on course for where he wanted to be.
Last season Rashford scored 13 goals in 27 appearances for United’s under-18 team — a promising return, but not enough to see him fast-tracked to the under-21s, let alone the senior squad. He made his debut for the under-21s only in September, but within two months he had been given a first-team squad number and named as a substitute for a Premier League game away to Watford. Nicky Butt, now United’s head of academy, showed him clips of Ruud van Nistelrooy to teach him how to learn to be in the right place at the right time. Rashford took all the advice on board and started to score regularly for the under-21s. The big time was getting closer, even if the thought of regular first-team football for United still seemed distant.
That unscheduled debut against Midtjylland in February, brought about by a severe injury crisis, changed everything. Ferguson often said that you needed to test young players in the first team before you could be sure whether they would sink or swim. Rashford has done more than swim. He has quickly soared to heights that few, even at United, expected.
“I always thought he had the talent and the right attitude, but he has added different things to his game,” Brogan says. “He was a winger in those early days, but he has developed into a really good centre forward. He’s had a growth spurt, which helps, and he looks good in the air now. His finishing is so calm. One thing I would say is that people haven’t seen much of his skills and tricks yet. I’m sure that will change as his confidence grows. He’s a great talent. He can be anything he wants to be.”
Something that everybody says about Rashford is that he wants to optimise his talent. He does not want to be a flash in the pan, an eight-week wonder. Van Gaal has been consistent not only in selecting him but with a mantra about the need to stay humble, work hard and keep improving. Rashford’s family, particularly his older brothers, have rallied around to try to protect him from Manchester’s bright lights and the perennial problems of hangers-on. That includes the dilemma over whether to enlist the help of an agent to negotiate his first big contract or whether to continue to look after his affairs with help from Welbeck’s brothers.
Rashford is said to have remained gloriously unaffected. The morning after his two goals against Arsenal he could be found in the sixth-form common room at Ashton-on-Mersey School. A few weeks ago he could be seen back on Button Lane with friends. “He came in for a chicken patty or some fried chicken,” Hemen Farouq, at J’s Rhythm takeaway, says. “He’s a nice guy, a good guy, the same as he was when he was living over the road.”
“You always hope they don’t change,” Horrocks says. “Some of them are susceptible to that, but Marcus always had the right attitude and a good family. We’re hoping he will come back to Fletcher Moss to see the kids and present some trophies or something.
“If he doesn’t, it will only be because he doesn’t want the adulation. He would probably rather just turn up in a hoodie and kick balls around with the kids. It has raised our profile. One Saturday we had something like 60 new kids registering at the soccer school because kids and their parents believe they can be the next Marcus Rashford.”
It is not just at Old Trafford that the Marcus Rashford effect is being felt. He is quickly becoming an inspiration for budding footballers up and down the country. www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/article4737485.ece?shareToken=e55a77a9168ad7008ef6ea195e4df368
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Post by Rustin Cohle on Apr 23, 2016 12:35:28 GMT
"We encourage them to dribble and shoot - we work on the passing later." No wonder England can't produce a decent passer of the ball anymore.
Great read though.
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Post by Reduntildeath on Apr 23, 2016 12:52:51 GMT
He's "not ready" for the First Team according to the Mad Dutch loon that we currently employ. Is he playing his clone?
Sport Football Football News Marcus Rashford Rashford is not ready for Manchester United first team - Van Gaal 16:35, 21 APR 2016 UPDATED 16:37, 21 APR 2016 BY SAMUEL LUCKHURST Louis van Gaal made a sensational admission on Marcus Rashford's development at Man Utd this season. 8148 SHARES 90 COMMENTS Rashford has started 13 United gamesRashford has started 13 United games
Louis van Gaal believes he has shown guts by promoting Manchester United 's youngsters to the senior side - and added Marcus Rashford is not ready for the first-team.
Van Gaal has handed debuts to 14 United academy graduates since he became the club's manager in 2014, with Rashford and Timothy Fosu-Mensah particularly impressing.
When asked whether former Under-18 coach Paul McGuinness and Under-21 coach Warren Joyce deserved credit for readying the youngsters for the senior side, Van Gaal replied: "They are not ready, I'm sorry, also Marcus Rashford is not ready.
"He knows that, he can learn a lot, you need always guts to put youngsters in the squad and also in the line-up, but of course the academy and all the academy coaches have the credits for these players, also the scouts who have discovered these boys, they have credits, and I am a little part of it but that part is important because you need the guts to do that."
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Despite insisting Rashford was not properly ready, Van Gaal then bracketed him with some of his most distinguished youngsters.
"I give youngsters the chance to do that so my first club was AZ Alkmaar and I was trainer coach of the second team, and then I played with five players out of my second team when I take over the first-coach. I was player and I was assistant coach, so it was a strange situation, but then five players have to play in the selection.
"And then I go to Ajax and Patrick Kluivert, 18-years-old, made the same performances as Marcus Rashford. I can give a lot of examples, it is not new.
"At Bayern Munich it was Thomas Muller, at Barcelona, Xavi was 18-years-old and Iniesta 17-years-old, and (Thiago) Motta was also 18-years-old, who is now playing at Paris Saint-Germain. It is not strange. Age is not the big issue. Quality is the big issue."
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2016 13:00:52 GMT
He's "not ready" for the First Team according to the Mad Dutch loon that we currently employ. Is he playing his clone? Sport Football Football News Marcus Rashford Rashford is not ready for Manchester United first team - Van Gaal 16:35, 21 APR 2016 UPDATED 16:37, 21 APR 2016 BY SAMUEL LUCKHURST Louis van Gaal made a sensational admission on Marcus Rashford's development at Man Utd this season. 8148 SHARES 90 COMMENTS Rashford has started 13 United gamesRashford has started 13 United games Louis van Gaal believes he has shown guts by promoting Manchester United 's youngsters to the senior side - and added Marcus Rashford is not ready for the first-team. Van Gaal has handed debuts to 14 United academy graduates since he became the club's manager in 2014, with Rashford and Timothy Fosu-Mensah particularly impressing. When asked whether former Under-18 coach Paul McGuinness and Under-21 coach Warren Joyce deserved credit for readying the youngsters for the senior side, Van Gaal replied: "They are not ready, I'm sorry, also Marcus Rashford is not ready. "He knows that, he can learn a lot, you need always guts to put youngsters in the squad and also in the line-up, but of course the academy and all the academy coaches have the credits for these players, also the scouts who have discovered these boys, they have credits, and I am a little part of it but that part is important because you need the guts to do that." ADVERTISING inRead invented by Teads United U21s have a bright future Despite insisting Rashford was not properly ready, Van Gaal then bracketed him with some of his most distinguished youngsters. "I give youngsters the chance to do that so my first club was AZ Alkmaar and I was trainer coach of the second team, and then I played with five players out of my second team when I take over the first-coach. I was player and I was assistant coach, so it was a strange situation, but then five players have to play in the selection. "And then I go to Ajax and Patrick Kluivert, 18-years-old, made the same performances as Marcus Rashford. I can give a lot of examples, it is not new. "At Bayern Munich it was Thomas Muller, at Barcelona, Xavi was 18-years-old and Iniesta 17-years-old, and (Thiago) Motta was also 18-years-old, who is now playing at Paris Saint-Germain. It is not strange. Age is not the big issue. Quality is the big issue." Obviously a language problem. Says he's a brilliant talent but not the finished article.
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Post by CaajScot on May 3, 2016 7:36:45 GMT
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