Ruben Amorim has said when he was a player he would have spoken to his manager about being dropped rather than react in the media, as Marcus Rashford has done. Manchester United’s head coach is undecided about how to deal with the forward, though he is believed to have left him out of the squad for Thursday’s Carabao Cup quarter-final at Tottenham.
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Rashford said in an interview with the journalist Henry Winter on Tuesday that he was “ready for a new challenge”. This came after the 27-year-old, who has struggled for form over the past two seasons, had been dropped for United’s 2-1 win against Manchester City on Sunday.
Amorim was asked on Wednesday what he would have done had he found himself in a similar position to Rashford during his playing career. The 39-year-old represented Belenenses, Braga, Benfica and Al-Wakrah and earned 14 caps for Portugal. “I would speak with the manager,” he said, emphatically.
“It’s hard to explain what I am going to do. I’m a little bit emotional,” added Amorim about Rashford’s interview. “I need to prepare for the game and then we will see. Let’s focus on the team, not individual players.”. Rashford is believed not to have been with his teammates who travelled to London on Wednesday afternoon ahead of the Spurs game. However, Alejandro Garnacho, who was also left out of the squad for Sunday’s derby, is understood to have been with the squad.
Amorim was asked if his approach to the situation would be to move on quickly. “It’s a hard situation to comment [on],” he said. “If I give a lot of importance it will have big headlines in the papers and if I say it’s not a problem then my standards are getting low. My focus is to not take the attention away from the game and the team and what we did in the last game.”.
