Former Manchester United striker Michael Owen has questioned Marcus Rashford’s mentality and claims he doubts whether the youngster has the instinct to become the main forward at Old Trafford.
The Red Devils have not had a great start to the new Premier League season having won just one of their last four games claiming 5 out of a possible 12 points and Ole Gunnar Solskajer needs to put together a few results over the next few weeks. The Norwegian decided to sell Belgian forward Romelu Lukaku to Inter Milan as the 26-year-old did not manage to fit in with United’s style of play.
This had overloaded the burden to score goals on Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial for United but Michael Owen has some serious questions over the 21-year-old Rashford leading the attack for the Red Devils.
Rashford netted twice against Chelsea on the opening day of the season but has put in some daft performances ever since even missing a penalty against Crystal Palace. And former England forward Michael Owen has said that he does not believe Rashford is a striker that has a killer instinct and that can never change
While speaking to ESPN, the 39-year-old Englishman said, “He is a better all-round player than me. He has a great touch and all-round skill that I never had, but he hasn’t got the killer instinct that I had. I was just obsessed. Players like Robbie Fowler, Sergio Aguero or Harry Kane – these people who are obsessed with goals. I don’t think he is obsessed with goals. You can definitely improve your finishing, but I don’t think you can improve your instinct and I don’t think you can improve the way you are made”
Owen also went on to explain that Rashford never really wanted to play as a center-forward and that is another reason as to why he will never be able to provide that ruthlessness in front of goal, “I know Rashford was never a center-forward as a kid. He always wanted to play wide or as a number 10 and I know his coaches at the Man Utd academy were always encouraging him to follow the ball in, get tap ins and get into the box, be a goalscorer. It was never really his desire. He was always outside the box, great touch and everything else. He will always score a decent number of goals and he is an absolutely wonderfully talented player, but when you mention Aguero, that cold-blooded constantly thinking about goals, I don’t think [he’s got that]”
