It has been a rather ridiculous situation at Carrington over the last two weeks. No sooner has Ruben Amorim driven out of Manchester United’s training ground than Marcus Rashford has pulled in.
Banished. Ostracised. The biggest name in the so-called ‘bomb squad’.
It wasn’t meant to end like this. Rashford and United. Amorim and Rashford. But it has been clear for some time that there was no way back.
When Rashford said in December – five days after his last appearance for United in Plzen – that he was ‘ready for a new challenge and the next steps’ in his career.