Rashford fails to hit the Marc as he blows his big chances

TUCHEL FAITH NOT REPAID

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MARCUS RASHFORD has found to his cost in recent times how friends can be hard to find in football.

He ran out of them at Manchester United - his hometown club.

And even Aston Villa didn’t want him, despite Rashford finding a semblance of his best form again on loan there in the second half of last season.

He thought this didn’t matter, because it enabled him to secure another loan move, this time to Barcelona. But perhaps he thought wrong.

Because it has taken just over a month for the murmurings to start about all not being well in the relationship between Rashford and the Catalans.

Reports back in Spain have claimed Barca bosses are even weighing up whether to send the forward back to United.

It has been suggested that Rashford is going ‘completely unnoticed’ in games and has been looking ‘shy, imprecise and lost’.

Sound familiar?

The mere prospect of Barca ending the loan agreement at a cost of €5m is enough to send a shiver down the spine of United chiefs, not least manager Ruben Amorim.