![]() I didn't really have doubt in my mind about that. Rashford: Now the conversation is a little bit different because I think it's clear, the manager is ambitious and he has been since the minute he stepped in. Did you have the same conversations before you signed your new deal? If I can stay focused on that then I think I can definitely score more goals than I did last season, but I have to be in the goal-scoring positions to get the chances, that's the main focus.ĮSPN: When Bruno Fernandes signed his new contract last year he said he wanted to speak to the club first to make sure they could match his ambition for trophies. If I've got the concentration, sometimes you might not have a chance all game and you get that one chance and you have to take it. I have to keep getting in the right areas and hopefully the goals keep coming.ĮSPN: Ten Hag said in New York that you'll keep scoring goals if you have the "right attitude." Has he said that to you privately and what does he mean? For me it's important I get consistent opportunities. Rashford: You do have to be consistent with it. Hopefully I can get more goals and do more, but I'll be equally happy if we spread the goals out more and everyone gets five or six more goals and that means we're doing better than last season.ĮSPN: Do you think you can get 30 goals a season and reach the levels set by Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappe? Sometimes it's not always statistically but if you can improve your performance you will take it any way you can. Rashford: It's always the purpose of your career, you want to keep improving. Do you think you can better than that next year? Because of that it influenced my performance and ultimately that's how I am as a person, if I'm not happy then it's difficult for me to play my best football.ĮSPN: You got 30 goals last season. I wasn't enjoying my football as much as I should be, as much I was used to enjoying it. ![]() Sometimes you're not enjoying your football and that was the case with me. Rashford: Freedom we were just a little bit rigid in the past. I enjoy scoring goals, I enjoy making assists, playing in the forward areas and trying to cause a threat to the other team.ĮSPN: When you say freedom, what do you mean? I think that gives you the baseline to try and showcase your abilities. Rashford: Just a little bit more freedom I felt, a little bit more stability. We came back a little bit later than some of the other lads it's been good to meet back up with the lads and get some good work and good training in and just get back to peak fitness.ĮSPN: You're coming off your best campaign in terms of goals. ![]() Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (U.S.)ĮSPN: How has the tour of the United States been so far? In an interview with English journalists on United's summer tour in San Diego, Rashford opens up about how close he came to leaving, Ten Hag's influence, how much Manchester City's treble hurt and his hopes for the future. Happy again at Old Trafford, he signed a new five-year contract earlier this month that will keep him at the club until 2028. The 25-year-old scored a career-high 30 goals in all competitions last season - manager Erik ten Hag's first in charge - and helped United win the Carabao Cup and secure a return to the Champions League. But fast-forward 12 months and things couldn't be more different. The England forward scored five goals during an injury-hit campaign and United finished sixth in the Premier League, and in the process racked up a fifth straight season without a trophy. SAN DIEGO - Marcus Rashford has admitted there was a point last summer when he considered leaving Manchester United. Man United's Rashford on reaching Man City, Ten Hag's impact ![]() You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser ![]()
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