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

[Drummond]

The club wanted him out because of his contract. That's it.

I think you're right and that Amorim was told the brief and followed it.

[LeeB]

The club wanted him out because of his contract. That's it.

I think you're right and that Amorim was told the brief and followed it.

Paul Lambert and the bomb squad, with a tan.

[Hookeysmith]

And his big nose.

Which is really not contestable, Just like Benteke had little ears, Rooney is fat and Fergiscum has a big red nose, Sideshow Bob at Chelsea has ridiculous hair and Asensio is a sex god.

Not sure what the problem is really as none of that is made up?

[Hookeysmith]

The club wanted him out because of his contract. That's it.

I think you're right and that Amorim was told the brief and followed it.

That is probably more the case but to state publically that he would pick a 63 year old goalkeeping coach over Rashford seems like a deliberate action to belittle him. I would also image that the constant media questioning over only Rashford when the whole of their team was gash he probably found galling so removed the root cause.

How has that gone for him?

[AV84]

I saw Man U fans asking after our win at Chelsea, "how come our 65 year old goalkeeping coach can't get an assist like that?"

I suppose they need a sense of humour these days.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I was in shock last night with the speed of Rashford, it was like a scene from Forrest Gump, he just ran past everybody, amazing acceleration, almost comical. Unfortunately he ran out of pitch and it came to nothing but had me thinking has the ever been a Villa player (even on loan) that fast?

[aldridgeboy]

Daley was rapid

[Cliftonville Villlain]

Tony Daley was ridiculously fast. And it usually ended with a goal.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Daley, Gabby, Kyle Walker were all fast but it was like Rashford was fast then he turned on his turbo changers. The fact he also did it with the ball was most impressive.

[Smithy]

Daley was very fast, but also at a time when pure pace wasn't all that common, so he often looked faster because the players around him weren't particularly quick.  Vassell and Gabby were also both rapid when they got going.

Rashford is also very quick, and I didn't realise that until 2020, he had the fastest speed ever recorded in a premier league match (36.3km an hour).  I do think speed over 5-10 yards is probably more important in the modern game than what speed you can reach given half a pitch to run into, and Malen looks properly rapid over that distance.

[Pat McMahon]

Best acceleration I have seen live was Adama Traore at Selhurst Park in august 2015. He just pushed the ball 10 metres past the full back and ran. I thought he’d over hit the ball but he got there with ease, moved inside and fired a shot / cross which ended up in the net.

It was right in front of us as we were in row 1 and there was no skill involved, just pure pace. It was Selhurst Park so we lost of course.

[dcdavecollett]

If we're talking about pace, Julian Joachim should get a mention.

[eamonn]

Jules ruled. Was playing til he was nearly 50. Dunno how his pace was at that point, mind.

[dcdavecollett]

If he hasn't slowed down a lot, he's not human.

[PeterWithe]

The clubs occasionally publish their lists of fastest players tested, when we came up ours was Bjorn Engels.

Which raised an eyebrow.