This Tuch of friendship is just what Rashford needs to find his form again

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

- JEREMY CROSS

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 during a spell 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 Catalan giants.

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

It has been suggested 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 €5million is enough to send a shiver down the spine of the United chiefs, not least Portuguese manager Ruben Amorim.