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

[PaulWinch again]

Yeah, he didn't like Rashford before so he's determined to find nonsense reasons to have a go.

Seems like it might be similar for Disasi.

Thing is you could dig out any one of the players last night or any other game if you so wish and you look hard enough.
Some get special treatment though, as is the case for this lad or Super Ollie for example.

Well you can, if you come with a bias and look for mistakes rather than at performances in the round.

[JUAN PABLO]

great freekick from rashford , thats twice

happy so far , cant wait until hes up to speed.

[Smithy]

Genuinely baffled by the criticism from you-know-who.  Has Marcus had an affair with his missus? The level of blinkered criticism is so significant that it's like there has to be something personal there, surely?

I think he's been pretty good. Not perfect. Not brilliant. But pretty good, and certainly better than I expected. He was unlucky with the offside disallowed goal yesterday, and Ollie doesn't score against Ipswich without his free-kick.  Plus he's created other chances too.

If his name wasn't Marcus Rashford, I'm 100% sure everyone would be excited by the performances he's put in since he arrived.

[Somniloquism]

Neither do you...yet he was taken off a few minutes later and his replacement Ramsey did put in a serious shift defensively to support Digne and later Maatsen up against Salah. We were so much better with Malen, Rogers and Ramsey

Everything I feared with Rashford and Asensio was shown up yesterday. Woefully short of match fitness and their selection unbalanced the team completely. When are we expecting they could play 90mins against a decent opponent - end of March?

And TTA was taken off a few mins later after scoring, probably for the same reason of they were being given 60 odd mins and subs were going to be made.

[Exeter 77]

The media agenda against Rashford may end up being the reason why we don't ultimately sign him permanently. The gist of every article about him is he isn't good enough for the largest club in Salford but too good for us.

[paul_e]

For everyone moaning about his tracking for Terrence, Salah didn't track Digne for our goal, which if we had lost it would have meant a break was on for them.

Also, they also were not in the same position in the pitch when Liverpool broke with the foul on Ollie. TTA had come right over to the middle and had 10 yards or so on Rashford closer to our half. But we also had a reasonable amount back. If the bounce had favoured Digne instead of Salah, Rashford would have been away on his own as well.

Yes, in hindsight I would have preferred him to come back more, and would be fuming more IF they had both starting on the wing, but it is not like TTA ran right passed him.

Rashford didn't bother his h*le, that's the long and short of it. He saw that break and play developing and could have broken his last sweat to get back, it wasn't a lightning quick break...but he wasn't bothered. That's the main reason his career is in freefall to start with. 60 mins into his first start in a Villa shirt...

Any whataboutery comparison with Salah is bogus...Salah is given licence by Liverpool to stay high on the right, hes arguably the best player in the PL, hes everything Rashford isn't basically.

This is just Rashford hate isn’t it? How do you know he was t given licence by Emery to stay up the pitch? I’ll answer for you. You don’t.

Neither do you...yet he was taken off a few minutes later and his replacement Ramsey did put in a serious shift defensively to support Digne and later Maatsen up against Salah. We were so much better with Malen, Rogers and Ramsey

Everything I feared with Rashford and Asensio was shown up yesterday. Woefully short of match fitness and their selection unbalanced the team completely. When are we expecting they could play 90mins against a decent opponent - end of March?

Are you going to completely ignore the fact that JJ only started getting ready to come on after Connor Bradley was waiting to come on, completely removing the benefit of having a player in behind TAA to exploit the space he leaves?

[markeeeebeeee2005]

Genuinely baffled by the criticism from you-know-who.  Has Marcus had an affair with his missus? The level of blinkered criticism is so significant that it's like there has to be something personal there, surely?

I think he's been pretty good. Not perfect. Not brilliant. But pretty good, and certainly better than I expected. He was unlucky with the offside disallowed goal yesterday, and Ollie doesn't score against Ipswich without his free-kick.  Plus he's created other chances too.

If his name wasn't Marcus Rashford, I'm 100% sure everyone would be excited by the performances he's put in since he arrived.

Sore Tory?

[paul_e]

Genuinely baffled by the criticism from you-know-who.  Has Marcus had an affair with his missus? The level of blinkered criticism is so significant that it's like there has to be something personal there, surely?

I think he's been pretty good. Not perfect. Not brilliant. But pretty good, and certainly better than I expected. He was unlucky with the offside disallowed goal yesterday, and Ollie doesn't score against Ipswich without his free-kick.  Plus he's created other chances too.

If his name wasn't Marcus Rashford, I'm 100% sure everyone would be excited by the performances he's put in since he arrived.

I think all 5 January additions have added a lot to us with their performances so far.

If we can get most of the injured masses back I think we could be a very good side for the run in, the squad now has the best depth I think we've ever had.

[AV84]

^ I think it's safe to say all 5 January signings have already been more impressive than our summer signings? I think Barkley has been the best of the summer bunch so far.

Maybe the bar is quite low there, to be fair, but it feels like we've added depth and quality this time around.

[edgysatsuma89]

I've liked what I have seen of Barkley on the whole. Shame he got injured.

[paul_e]

I think Maatsen and Onana have shown enough to think that they can both be big players for us over the next few years and Barkley, as said, has been a good addition.

Philogene turned a big profit and SIJ and Enzo we can't really judge.

I think the problem really was that we made a lot of signings for the future and probably didn't add enough for the now. We've addressed that.

[Toronto Villa]

He’s a brilliant footballer who is starting to believe again. It wasn’t going to happen immediately. But he’s putting the work in and you can see he’s beginning to enjoy himself again.

[ROBBO]

Hope we can keep him after the summer, at twenty seven he still has a lot of football in him. Why would anyone knock him this early?

[cdbearsfan]

Because they hated him before he signed and would rather be proved right in their own head than enjoy watching a world class player play for Villa.

[Ian.]

Ramsey is a fine player, one of my favourites and a game changer when fit and on song. Rashford is also a top class player and has the ability to be one of the best attacking players out there.

Isn’t it great to have those two options.