It’s okay to be tactically adrift, struggling to find your spot in a new regime, or even politically sidelined because, after much soul-searching, you accept the time has come to move on. But to flat out not try, as Ruben Amorim alleged, is betrayal. That sentence fell from Amorim’s lips with the force of a guillotine, shredding any chance of a reconciliation.
“It’s the same situation for every player,” Amorim said. “If you do the maximum, if you do the right things … we can use every player. You can see it today on the bench – we miss a little bit of pace to go, to change the game, to move some pieces, but I prefer [it] like that. I will put [Goalkeeper coach Jorge] Vital [on the bench] before I put a player that doesn’t give the maximum every day so I will not change in that.”
Man Utd fans threaten 'outright rebellion' over ticket price rises
Read MoreRashford said he felt re-energised and headed into December full of optimism. Two months later he is the recipient of the most damaging appraisal of all.
Wherever he ends up, Rashford is not only looking for the goals that might help rehabilitate his career but some serious engagement with the public to rebuild his reputation. We have seen how quickly things can change, but not always when character is traduced. Mason Greenwood is rattling in the goals in the service of Marseille but there is no sense he is close to settling the PR account.
Amorim peeled back the layers of Rashford’s outer to reveal, in his view, a bad actor. This is Rashford we are talking about, an academy starlet, one of their own, a player who represented all it is to be a United footballer, suddenly revealed as a fraud, a bloke who does not try and by definition does not care about the club or his team-mates. It does not get any worse than that.
Man Utd fans threaten 'outright rebellion' over ticket price rises
Read MoreAnd the silence from his camp is shocking. How can he stand by and not defend himself, not shout Amorim down?
The overwhelming feeling when Amorim was invited to answer one last question in the cramped press room at Fulham was one of sadness, that a player once considered borderline great, who had run himself into the ground for the shirt, playing through injury under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, could be brought so low, and so brutally.
To be dismissed as someone of less use to Amorim than his 63-year-old goalkeeping coach was not the United epitaph any was expecting of Rashford.
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