He'll most likely end this season having missed 5 league games in 5 seasons, and one of those was through a ban. So 4 through injury. Rashford is likely to miss the same number in three and a half months with us. But it will be easy to replace his goals, assists. work rate and rarely being unavailable.
Damn right, and yet people believe he'd be easy to replace "without too much hassle". Really!
In the EPL, the only gettable equivalent player is Delap. We need CL football to be in with a chance to get him, and even then others are circling with intent. I do not have extensive knowledge of footballers outside the English leagues but anyone offering Watkins' fitness levels, durability and overall contribution to our game will surely be a rare breed.
What we've lacked this season is not Watkins' 'missing goals' but someone alongside him in the team who can set goals up and exploit his own assists (last season we had a rare-Bailey and Diaby as those players).
