Ruben Amorim makes drastic decision on Rashford

End of the line for the English forward at Old Trafford: he is on the market and Amorim’s revolution will start with him

It was in epic fashion that, on Sunday, at the Etihad, Manchester United won the derby against Manchester City , turning the score around from 0-1 to 2-1 close to the final whistle, in a game in which it was surprising to see Alejandro Garnacho and Marcus Rashford not being called up. Ruben Amorim assured that it was not due to a punishment or disciplinary measures from the club and that it was simply his “evaluation” of the performance of both in training throughout the week, but what is certain is that, already this Monday, The Guardian newspaper assured that the Englishman has the seal of transferability and that the Red Devils ‘ objective is to sell him in the January market.

The decision has the full support of Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who urgently needs to cut the club’s costs and the wage bill would be much lighter without the £365,000 – €440,000 – that Rashford charges… per week: an astronomical sum of €1.7 million at the end of the month, which translates into more than €20 million per year. According to the aforementioned newspaper, it is by cutting Marcus Rashford that Ruben Amorim wants to start the ‘revolution’ within the club, which he considers necessary to bring Manchester United back to the top echelons of English and European football.

“Amorim has decided that Rashford must leave in order to initiate a cultural change throughout the club, from the football team to the staff outside the team,” the article reads.

The 27-year-old forward has been in the first team since 2015 and has 138 goals in 426 appearances for the Red Devils, with a market value estimated by Transfermarkt at 60 million euros.