‘It’s got ten times worse…’ Gary Neville makes Ruben Amorim comment on Marcus Rashford, compares to Erik ten Hag

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The resolution to the Marcus Rashford saga finally arrived with the forward joining Aston Villa on loan until the end of the season.

Marcus Rashford’s move to Aston Villa comes after a transfer window full of twists and turns and Villa having a buy option means this may well be goodbye for good.

Rashford’s message after leaving United clearly indicates a player happy to find his feet in new surroundings after things got untenable at Old Trafford.

Gary Neville made a point about how the situation has completely upended expectations since Ruben Amorim came in.

Gary Neville on Marcus Rashford and Ruben Amorim

Rashford has had an extremely weird fallout with Amorim which can’t even be called a fallout exactly because there’s nothing public.

Amorim’s brutal comments on Rashford didn’t leave much to speculate upon and while Rashford didn’t air his dirty laundry out in the public, there was no change to his situation either.

Neville spoke on Sky Sports’ Gary Neville podcast about the situation and said what he thought would be a clean slate for Rashford after Amorim’s arrival has gone haywire instead.

He said: “It was an absolute must that he had to get out of Manchester United. I thought when Ruben Amorim came, we would see a clean slate but it’s got ten times worse under Amorim for Rashford than it was under Erik ten Hag.

“Some of the things that have been said by his manager have been absolutely brutal and he’s only been with him for five or six weeks. It’s a stain on his character.”

Rashford’s axing hardly anything to do with Ruben Amorim

Neville makes the correct point that Rashford absolutely had to leave the club but his assertion that Amorim accelerated the process doesn’t exactly ring true.

For starters, Alejandro Garnacho was once in the same boat as Rashford and he’s now borderline undroppable and impressing Amorim.

Secondly, previous managers have had issues with Rashford as well but didn’t do much about it, accommodating the player instead.

It was high time somebody put a stop to it by taking a stand which doesn’t mean accelerating a bad situation. It just means finally cutting the chord on a relationship that neither party was ever going to be happy with.