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Marcus Rashford’s mom, Melanie Maynard, has blamed the lack of two family members for her son’s struggles on the pitch this season.
Final time period, Rashford was arguably within the most interesting type of his profession. He plundered a powerful 30 objectives throughout all competitions as he helped Manchester United end third within the Premier League, attain the FA Cup closing and win the Carabao Cup.
His exploits earned him a brand new five-year bumper deal value round £375,000-per-week.
The Carrington academy graduate rejected overtures from different events like Paris-Saint Germain and devoted his future to United.
Nevertheless, this season, Rashford has discovered it arduous to duplicate the unimaginable performances he put up final time period.
Thus far, he has eight objectives in 35 appearances throughout all competitions. His most up-to-date purpose was an equalising purpose that helped United overcome Liverpool within the quarter-final of the FA Cup on Sunday.
Amad Diallo would go on to search out the successful strike that despatched the Pink Devils by to the subsequent spherical of the event.
Issues are beginning to lookup for Rashford, who has now discovered the again of the web in United’s final three video games vs. Manchester Metropolis, Everton and naturally, Liverpool within the FA Cup.
The 26-year-old’s mom wrote for The Instances and expressed how proud she is of her son and what he has achieved to this point.
She additionally tried to elucidate why at occasions, Rashford has not regarded like himself.
“The Queen awarded him an MBE for his work. In spite of everything of this, Marcus labored arduous to attain a brand new contract at his boyhood membership. He loves United. Marcus produced an unbelievable efficiency final season, scoring 30 objectives and 11 assists, to warrant a brand new contract.”
“After that, Marcus misplaced a second essential individual in his life: his cousin Nathan in November, after an excellent household buddy, Garf, had died a yr earlier, which set him again so much. It was so much for somebody so younger to take care of.”
She added, “Marcus is United by and thru from when he was youthful. He all the time needed to play soccer professionally at his boyhood membership. He labored so arduous. He all the time believed in “in the event you consider, you’ll obtain”. He’s needed to sacrifice so much to get to the place he’s in the present day.”
“Marcus is human, so he may have ups and downs in his life like everybody else. Marcus is in an excellent place, he won’t ever let anybody down. However you all the time must be cautious of individuals’s intentions round you — generally individuals round you may be wolves wearing sheep’s clothes.”
Ms Maynard relayed that Rashford is now doing effectively and is able to have a powerful end to the season.