How Marcus Rashford will fit in with Aston Villa’s team of lost talents Unai Emery’s Villa have established a type of signing and Rashford perfectly fits the mould – what role will he play for the Villans?.
Part of Duran’s value to Villa, meanwhile, lay in his capacity to be a superlative substitute: his hot streak of goals from the bench may have been unsustainable but Villa could do with unearthing another difference-maker.
Not for Aston Villa, admittedly: he was part of the Manchester United side beaten 3-1 in Emery’s auspicious debut, a scorer four days later as, in a Carabao Cup rematch, the new manager was condemned to a first defeat in charge.
Morgan Rogers has been both Villa’s finest winger and No 10 this season, but the arrivals of Rashford, Donyell Malen and Marco Asensio should allow the former Middlesbrough man to take a central role.
With Villa down to one specialist striker, and Watkins injured in Saturday’s defeat at Wolves, there will surely be times when Rashford is needed to reprise the front-running role that he is equipped to, but which is not his preference.
