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Manchester United legend Gary Neville launched a fierce dig at Marcus Rashford after the player recently criticised the club’s progress over the past few years.
Rashford’s verdict on United’s woes
Rashford joined Barcelona on loan last month. He is set to spend the entirety of the 2025/26 campaign with the Blaugrana, where he will be hoping to impress and make the transfer a permanent one.
The Carrington academy graduate enjoyed a good pre-season with the Catalan giants and made his La Liga debut over the weekend as they cruised to a 3-0 win over Mallorca. Rashford came on as a substitute in the second half.
Last week, Rashford spoke to Gary Lineker and Micah Richards, where he delivered a stinging verdict of United’s issues, carefully detailing where the club have fallen short since Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement in 2013.
Rashford branded United “reactionary” and questioned their policy of hiring and sacking managers. He also speculated that the Red Devils don’t appear to have a clear and defined way of going about their rebuild.
The 27-year-old’s remarks sparked considerable debate among the fanbase. While some supporters understood his perspective, given his years as an insider, others reacted less positively.
Appearing on Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football, Neville was asked about Rashford’s sentiments and was quick to brush them aside, insisting that the forward had lost his right to give an opinion on the situation.
Neville responds to Rashford’s comments
Neville said, “Let’s ignore that, because I don’t want to go into Marcus Rashford comments tonight.”
“He was there at the club for 10 years and had his opportunity to impact the club. Ruben Amorim, this year, I think will do a good job.”
“Marcus should concentrate on Barcelona.”
Neville also weighed in on United’s performance against Arsenal on Sunday. He was more positive about this and pointed out that there were a lot of positives to take from the game despite the fact that it ended in a defeat.
“Yesterday was the first time I watched that formation out on Old Trafford, where I thought, ‘Right, we’ve got a chance here, that worked.’”
“He’d brought in a few different players, he’d got [Mason] Mount back, introduced Luke Shaw at left centre-back, that helped and I think it was the first time, it’s a difficult, rare system, it needs specialists, but when you saw [Matheus] Cunha play, saw Mount play, saw Shaw at left centre-back – there was a balance!”
“Casemiro looked a better player all of a sudden! Just straight away he looked a better player.”
United are back in action on Sunday when they take on Fulham at Craven Cottage.
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