JOSE MOURINHO MOCKED himself “the monster that kills kids” as he insisted Marcus Rashford remains a crucial member of Manchester United’s side after Alexis Sanchez’s arrival.
Mourinho’s attacking riches now include star forward Sanchez after the Chile international swapped Arsenal for Premier League rivals United last week .
The signing of Sanchez has raised doubts over Rashford’s game time at Old Trafford , with Romelu Lukaku, Anthony Martial, Juan Mata and Jesse Lingard also vying for starting spots.
Rashford has featured in all 36 of United’s matches this season, the 20-year-old named in the starting XI on 20 occasions.
But Mourinho – who has a reputation for not giving youth a chance – reassured Rashford over his role in Manchester.
“Marcus’ story is quite interesting because he started playing with Mr [Louis] Van Gaal, when the team was really in trouble, to have options,” said Mourinho.
“Then the monster that kills the little kids arrived, but he plays every game since then. He plays every game, starting or coming from the bench, as a striker, as a left winger, as a right winger. Then he goes to the national team.
“The kid is having a hell of an experience at every level, so an amazing future waits for him and being surrounded by these players can only help him. But the whole story of Marcus — will he get minutes and matches? — that story is really old, because he’s a very important player for us.”
Mourinho added: “In attack, it’s difficult for us to improve. Where are we going to get a better combination of players than we have? We cannot buy Lionel Messi, we cannot buy Cristiano Ronaldo – these are the best players of the last decade.
“Where can we get better players than Mata, Martial, Lingard, Rashford, Alexis, Lukaku? In attack, we have an amazing group of players.”
Mourinho’s Man United – second and eight points clear of fifth-placed Tottenham – travel to London to face Spurs at Wembley Wednesday.
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The “Bring Ronaldo Home” campaign is a scam set up to defraud naive football fans (morons) and The Score should not be publicising it, at least without doing some research. Every Utd fan I’ve seen on twitter are up in arms about it. It was registered as a limited company in the past fortnight and pledges to “honor PayPal refund rules” if Ronaldo doesn’t get signed. It should be noted that said PayPal refund policy expires after 60 days. Also while receiving £10 per pledge, they say they will only refund £7 of it (not that it will matter).
Sid Lowe, journalist quoted this morning “That Ronaldo Home campaign is utter batshit on every level scam/parody/ripoff”
Hi Conal,
In no way are we ‘promoting’ the Bring Ronaldo Home campaign, no more than we are promoting Adidas by highlighting the awfulness of their new Marseille jersey in this piece (http://thescore.thejournal.ie/new-marseille-jersey-909414-May2013/)
We posted the video because any attempt to get Ronaldo back to Manchester United is news.
Steven,
I think your missing his point this is not an attempt to bring Ronaldo back to Manchester United but a scam preying on gullible fans. What he takes issue with would appear to be that you are reporting this as a legitimate attempt to raise money to bring Ronaldo back to United which can be construed as being irresponsible if in fact this is a scam.
Scam potential here.
I threw a few quid into the campaign run for the defence of Paul Kimmage.
Subsequent events not Kimmage’s fault obviously, but an eye opener for anybody putting a hand in their pocket for a crowdfund.
Nuff said.
I’m sure Ronaldo is just dying to trade in Sunny Madrid for Rainy Manchester.
Sad B%#$!#%S……
What’s next? Fans trying to raise the money to buy their club back from evil American owners?…oh wait…
The evil Glazers who financed 5 league titles, 2 league cups and a European cup. Not to mention 2 more European cup finals.
Im not anti-Glazer by any stretch of the imagination but I wouldn’t go giving them too much credit for “financing” the success since they have taken over the club. It is all club generated money that goes in to the club and the Glazers pump sweet f all of their own money in to the club.
They have done a lot to increase revenues (rising ticket prices, greatly increased sponsorship etc…) but they have also placed the club in a lot of debt at a great expense to the club. You can say what you like but they hardly “finance” the success.
All that said as long as they continue to leave the management of the club to those who know how to manage it and don’t begin to bleed the club of any money I think their ownership can at least be tolerated!
Don’t bother Big Pat most people don’t recognize how good the Glazers have been. Spent plenty of money on players keeping the club hugely successful and have made the club into a profit making machine.
As a United fan…what a ridiculous plan! How much will he make for the club? €1,000,000,000???? Not a chance will he! I would sooner give a small donation to a charity than to this…Out of interest, I would wonder what happens to all the money when they don’t raise the total amount!
The club has a backroom team in place for this sort of thing, it should be left to them to decide what players come and go!
So ronaldo says he wants to leave forces his transfer and united want him back? So what’s all the fuss about wanting Rooney out?