Marcus Rashford - signed on loan (injured - out for season?)

[AV84]

Reading what Rashford has said about coming here, it seems safe to assume he's 100% being added to the CL squad. Probably a no brain decision anyway, but it sounds like he's been promised it. Which only leaves 2 other changes?

[85kota]

I find it really hard to come up with reasons not to like signing a 27-year-old who's won a couple of FA Cups, a couple of League Cups, a Uefa Cup, has a 1-in-3 scoring rate across 10 seasons at the top end of the Premier League and in Europe, a 1-in-3 from 60 caps and done it all at a club where the spotlight is at its most intrusive and while that club gradually sinks in its own ego-fuelled ridiculousness.

I could cling to "sources say" space-fillers targeting a high profile celeb who refuses to wind his neck in on issues guaranteed to redden gammons, but all told I reckon I'm OVERTHEFUCKINGMOON at this signing. And I'm sure Villa will lend him the flat in The Mailbox if there are roadworks on the M6 in Staffordshire.

A reason to not like it was that the "sources" include his last three managers saying that he was unprofessional.

[Pat Mustard]

I find it really hard to come up with reasons not to like signing a 27-year-old who's won a couple of FA Cups, a couple of League Cups, a Uefa Cup, has a 1-in-3 scoring rate across 10 seasons at the top end of the Premier League and in Europe, a 1-in-3 from 60 caps and done it all at a club where the spotlight is at its most intrusive and while that club gradually sinks in its own ego-fuelled ridiculousness.

I could cling to "sources say" space-fillers targeting a high profile celeb who refuses to wind his neck in on issues guaranteed to redden gammons, but all told I reckon I'm OVERTHEFUCKINGMOON at this signing. And I'm sure Villa will lend him the flat in The Mailbox if there are roadworks on the M6 in Staffordshire.

A reason to not like it was that the "sources" include his last three managers saying that he was unprofessional.

The last 3 managers have failed to get a tune out of a squad costing over £1 billion, which they have all had a hand in constructing.  Rashford has just been a convenient lightning rod for them, the fundamental problem there is that they have spent an absolute fortune on dross, have had no coherent plan since Ferguson retired, and yet still have a massively over-inflated sense of who they are.  At this point they are just like Everton have been over the last 10 years, albeit with a much bigger turnover that has enabled them to keep limping along pretending to be one of the important teams.

[Sexual Ealing]

They gave Rashford a contract they shouldn't have, and are now trying to remedy their error. It feels as simple as that to me.

[AV84]

If you think about it, they got rid of OGS when they were 7th in the table. They've been on a downward trajectory ever since, and each new manager seems to take a pick at one player and make a big song and dance about it. Maybe it is the show them who's in charge idea, but first it was Maguire, then Sancho, then Rashford. Maguire, poor sap, really didn't do anything, Sancho and Rashford may not have helped their cases with their own behavior, but there's been a lot of players left that place as flops recently and gone on to be brilliant at their next club.

[PeterWithe]

Or that they are by far the best supported team in the UK, their fans click articles and provide vast revenue for news and sport websites so its in their interest to keep running stories that wouldn't get reported at other clubs.

[olaftab]

They gave Rashford a contract they shouldn't have, and are now trying to remedy their error. It feels as simple as that to me.

And needed to find a sucker to help them that. Yes it's simple.

[Tuscans]

No.9

[VILLA MOLE]

They gave Rashford a contract they shouldn't have, and are now trying to remedy their error. It feels as simple as that to me.

And needed to find a sucker to help them that. Yes it's simple.

well I do not think it will be us long term if he doesnt perform

[jwarry]

They gave Rashford a contract they shouldn't have, and are now trying to remedy their error. It feels as simple as that to me.

And needed to find a sucker to help them that. Yes it's simple.

well I do not think it will be us long term if he doesnt perform

Alternatively this is what we could have won

https://youtu.be/uFvsHouWAXw?si=Uhn0wyvVKmKod9S_

[The Edge]

They gave Rashford a contract they shouldn't have, and are now trying to remedy their error. It feels as simple as that to me.

And needed to find a sucker to help them that. Yes it's simple.

We are suckers because we took a short term low cost punt on a player who is capable of being brilliant on his day? Fair enough if that's how you choose to perceive it.

[AV84]

I see a free kick in that video. If he can take Digne off set pieces and Ollie or penalties, it'll be worth it for that alone.

[exigo]

Reading what Rashford has said about coming here, it seems safe to assume he's 100% being added to the CL squad. Probably a no brain decision anyway, but it sounds like he's been promised it. Which only leaves 2 other changes?

It's three newbies as a baseline, but if you lose five from the original squad list it goes up to four newbies. And five newbies if seven get removed.

[Hookeysmith]

Has he ever acted a Billy Big Bollocks?

Not sure if this is considered giving it the biggun

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/18j6tEjB2WA

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/afi0rrUVUHk

www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/marcus-rashford-speeding-rolls-royce-03dz6j6mg?id=17515457033&gad_source=2

www.youtube.com/shorts/RY-0-dIPquQ

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1BmZUdQFla0

He really needs to hit the ground running or all this baggage will stay with him.

Not happy but i really hope it works out for the club and we are not made to look stupid

[RamboandBruno]

They gave Rashford a contract they shouldn't have, and are now trying to remedy their error. It feels as simple as that to me.

And needed to find a sucker to help them that. Yes it's simple.

Yep Emery has proven to be a sucker over and over, in the last two and a bit years.