Marcus Rashford is ‘wasting his talent’ and will have ‘huge regrets’ if he doesn’t sort out his disciplinary issues, according to Alan Shearer.
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His comments come after the Manchester United star missed the FA Cup fourth-round clash at Newport County on Sunday through illness.
It is reported that Rashford missed Friday training after calling in sick, but the England international was seen at a nightclub in Belfast on Thursday evening.
Ahead of kick-off, Erik ten Hag was quizzed about the forward’s absence and whether he would be disciplined, responding: ‘Let’s say it’s an internal matter, I’ll deal with it. It’s an internal matter.’
Rashford has been disciplined by Ten Hag before: last season he was dropped to the bench for a match against Wolves after oversleeping and missing a team meeting, a decision the player understood.
He responded by scoring the winner in that match before going onto have the best season of his a career scoring 30 goals, but this campaign has been a disaster so far, with just four goals to his name.
Premier League legend Shearer has urged the 26-year-old to get his act together, saying on BBC Sport: ‘If it’s an internal matter, you’d think something is up.
‘There’s a huge talent in there with Marcus Rashford. We’ve seen him be disciplined last season when he was late to a meeting before a game but something is clearly wrong – either at home or in his relationship with the football club.
‘He can’t keep doing this, he can’t keep wasting his talent because it’s not right. He needs strong management, someone to get hold of him and tell him there’ll be huge regrets come the end of his career if he continues doing this.
‘You can’t keep doing it, it needs sorting now. Thirty goals last season, four this season.
‘When I see him play, it looks like he’s got the world on his shoulders so it needs sorting now because he can’t really deal with it.’
Fellow pundit and Manchester City icon Micah Richards added: ‘Marcus Rashford needs to understand he is a public figure and wherever he goes there is going to be attention on him.
‘Whether he is given a day off or whatever but then before a game he is causing more problems.
They wanted to come to the game today and focus on it and now we are having to ask him [Ten Hag] what is happening off the pitch. It has not been good enough from the whole squad since Ten Hag has come to the club.’
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