Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford is living the dream and has had an incredible career to date, on the face of it.
At 21 years of age, he has played 177 times for his boyhood club (prior to Monday's game with Arsenal), scored 48 goals, won three major trophies and played 34 times for England.
Rashford is already one of United’s top earners on a reported weekly wage that exceeds £250,000 with various bonuses, while he wears the number 10 shirt previously occupied by players like Wayne Rooney, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Teddy Sheringham and David Beckham.
Yet one cannot help but increasingly wonder if Rashford’s early success is more a result of his club’s falling stature from the best in Europe to Premier League also-rans…not least because he currently seems unable to drive United forward.