At his peak he was a wonder, fleet of foot and scorer of great goals. He has bulged the net in Barcelona and Paris, cracked them in at the Etihad, the Emirates, scored big goals against Liverpool. That talent has not gone away. Mining it is the issue.
Then again not everybody phoned in sick from a Belfast bar. That mad bender 12 months ago signified the end of Rashford at United, a point from which he was never able to rebuild relationships, or rekindle the romance with the club he joined as a boy.
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Read MoreRashford became so important he was pretty much flogged by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, playing through injury to back and shoulder that would eventually require surgery. Before submitting to the scalpel in the summer of 2021, he would pick out Paul Pogba in January that year for the goal at Burnley that sent United top of the league for the first time in the post-Fergie era.
These achievements were laid down in chaotic circumstances, the fans in open revolt against the Glazer ownership, the board led by a cohort of economics graduates with little intuitive feel for the business at hand. Rashford was the link the United supporters knew and loved, one of their own fighting for the shirt.
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Read MoreThough the flowering of a maturing Rashford was yet to come, the fracture he is negotiating now might be linked to that period, when the non-footballing side of his career was briefly in the hands of Roc Nation, the management company launched by American music artist Jay-Z, who helped to oversee his campaigning.
This was a great pity and was perhaps a factor in the push back against him when form dipped. There was clearly turmoil in his private life, too, with the split from his long-time partner, which coincided with the Belfast misstep. The familiar gesture of a forefinger to the temple during stripped-back goal celebrations became the preferred signifier of defiance towards those who had turned against him.
Marcus Rashford’s trademark celebration was an act of defiance (Photo: Getty)Best did also but by then was a willing accomplice to the fame game that consumed him. Rashford clearly is not. And he still loves United. “When I leave it’s going to be ‘no hard feelings’. You’re not going to have any negative comments from me about Manchester United,” he said.
When that time comes, wherever it comes, we will learn soon enough whether Rashford might become again the player he was. You only get one second chance.
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